New York, April 10, 2012 – GFI Market Data, a division of GFI Group Inc. (NYSE: GFIG), announced today that it has extended its long-standing relationship with QUICK Corp. GFI will continue to provide FX Options market data to the Japanese corporation. QUICK Corp. is part of the Nikkei Group of companies.
Gakuji Takahashi, Executive General Manager of QUICK Corp. said, “QUICK is pleased to renew its contract with GFI and continue the long standing and very active business partnership we have. GFI’s data services are pivotal to our customer base when making trading decisions in the OTC markets”, and added, “This agreement with GFI will enable us to continue to provide our customers with authoritative market data across Japan and worldwide. Through the partnership with GFI, QUICK works positively to meet the clients’ high expectations.”
Philip Winstone, Global Head of Market Data at GFI stated: “We have provided our FX Options market data to QUICK Corp. and their clients since 2005 and are very honoured to extend this agreement. The need for high quality real market priced FX Options has never been higher and, by extending this long standing relationship, QUICK’s client base will continue to get access to over 100 FX Option currency pairs sourced from our data“.
The currencies offered via QUICK include a significant number of Japanese Yen cross currency option volatility surfaces that will be of particular relevance to the Japanese company’s client base. Currency pair coverage from GFI Market Data has grown significantly since the data was added in 2005; at the present time it covers 20 Yen crosses.
QUICK Corp. is the principal Japanese financial information vendor and a financial information provider in the Nikkei Group. It supplies information to customers in the securities and financial markets. Their service offer includes Japanese, Asian and Global real-time financial information, as well as news and historical information.