Quick Corp. (株式会社QUICK) (sometimes stylised "QUICK") is a financial market information vendor headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1971 as Quotation Information Center K.K. (株式会社市況情報センター), and changed its corporate name to the acronym "QUICK" in 1987.[1][2] Quick has four offices in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka) as well as overseas offices in London and Hong Kong.[3]
Native name | 株式会社QUICK |
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| Founded | October 1, 1971; 52 years ago (1971-10-01) |
| Headquarters | Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower,
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Japan
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| Revenue | 30.2 billion yen (2015) |
| Owner |
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Number of employees | 653 (2016) |
| Website | corporate |
Quick developed one of the three major Japanese real-time news database services in the 1980s (along with Jiji News Wire and Nikkei Telecom).[4]
Quick is responsible for calculating several Japanese financial market indices, including the well-known Nikkei 225 stock market index.[5] Quick also publishes "Quick Consensus" data based on corporate earnings and macroeconomic forecasts published by securities firms and analytics companies.[6]
In 2016, Quick introduced AI-based technology to automatically "read" corporate news releases and instantly generate news reports based on the contents.[7] In the same year, Quick announced a strategic equity investment in the US fintech startup Xignite, which provides cloud-based market data to financial institutions, with the goal of offering the technology to customers in Asia.[8][9]