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Nikkei NEEDS

All-in-one Micro and Macro Economic Database

FREQUENTLY REQUESTED DATASET

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DATA DELIVERY CHOICES

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Over 95%

The Nikkei Economic Electronic Databank System (NEEDS) provides over 50 years of high quality Corporate Financial, Equity, Fixed Income and Macroeconomic data.

The service is subscribed by over 95% of Japanese financial Institutions, including all top 10 securities companies and all six of the major banks in Japan, a true indication of the calibre of the services provided by NEEDS.

Features

The most accurate Corporate Financial and Securities data for all listed Japanese companies

Over 50 years of high quality and consistent data

The most accurate Corporate Financial and Securities data for all listed Japanese companies in consistent and easy to compare format.

Unrivalled in the scale, scope and accuracy of its data

Perfect data source for a wide range of tasks from front office research to back office processing, and from marketing and PR to quantitative analysis

Uses

Utilize Economic and Corporate Data as an Alternative Data

We provide a wide range of numerical data and report data; from corporate settlement information, microsecond market information, and governance information to risk information surrounding the company.

With a data structure that is premised on program processing and statistical processing, the economic and corporate data will strongly back up the processing and the analysis according to the intended use, such as investment strategy formulation, trend prediction, and academic research.

Nikkei Alternative Data

Strategic Plan of M&A

for Hedge Funds

The information provided by ownership and corporate governance intelligence gives shareholders the power to evaluate potential difficulties of M&A for targeted companies.

Corporate Fundamentals

Corporate Governance Evaluation System

Borrowings by Financial Institution

Provides the names of financial institutions lending to companies and the amount of corporate borrowing, based on the results of questionnaires sent out to companies and 'Yuho' (Yuka Shoken Hokokusho) Financial Statements.
Long-term and short-term debts are covered.

Data Delivery Choices

Subscribing clients can receive daily data files via NEEDS BULK directly to their in-house database; or they can access the NEEDS databases directly through the web-browser based NEEDS FinancialQUEST. For clients who do not require a continuous subscription service, NEEDS SPOT provides one-off data access based on client parameters.