# Investics DARTS FIGI Service

Powered by **Bloomberg Open FIGI** data, this subscription can be used standalone or as a companion piece with other **Investics DARTS** and **Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE)** offerings on **AWS Marketplace** and **Data Exchange**. Subscribers can use this service to lookup, cross reference and facilitate joining datasets containing a **FIGI** identifier in order to retrieve associated **FIGI** identifiers, descriptors, market sectors, security types, tickers, country and exchange codes and name/exchange search keys.

**FIGI** (Financial Instrument Global Identifier) is a globally recognized, non-changing identifier provided at no cost. FIGI utilizes open symbology for identifying instruments globally across all asset classes. FIGI has applicability beyond simple security and instrument identification. The identifiers are used for managing the transition of hierarchical specificity as an instrument moves through the functional aspects of trading, settlement, portfolio management, asset servicing, risk management and regulatory reporting (i.e. the ‘contextual view’). Unique FIGI identifiers are available at the security exchange, the composite country and the global share class levels.

The **Investics DARTS** service has transformed datasets into analytics ready, plug and play condition. Use these datasets in your investment process with the **Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE)**, as well as your own software tools and systems. With **Investics DARTS** data is remediated, enriched with related investment data and transformed into formats immediately ready for downstream system and software consumption for investment management, portfolio and company analysis, risk management, compliance, regulatory and other reporting use cases. Unlike the anomalies often present with 3rd party data vendors datasets, there should be no need for your organization to spend time and money to remediate these datasets before use in Investics analytics or integration with other data, software, databases or systems.

With the use of **FIGI**, users can easily cross reference different vendor datasets available through **Investics DARTS** and link to portfolio holdings and/or transactions for portfolio, trading, analytics, compliance, regulatory and other reporting use cases. To learn more about **Investics DARTS Portfolio Data Service**, please click [here]

(https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-6q3lsp4nwg4sw?sr=0-4&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa).

Additional information on the **Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE)** and **Investics DARTS** is available below.

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## Metadata

* Update Frequency | Daily

* Geographic Coverage | Global

* Security Type Coverage | Equities including: ADR, CDI, Closed-End Fund, Common Stock, Dutch Cert, GDR, Ltd Part, MLP, Preference, Pvt Eqty Fund, Receipt, REIT, Savings Share, SDR, Stapled Security, Tracking Stk, Unit

* Universe | Securities covered in Investics DARTS and Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE) offerings

* Time Period Coverage | Current and Historical

* Is historical data “point-in-time” | YES

* Data Set(s) Format(s) | CSV, JSON (as well as GlueParquet, Parquet, AVRO, ORC, Tableau HYPER & XML formats when subscribed in conjunction with the **Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE)**)

* Compression Format(s) Available in Conjunction with a Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE) subscription | Snappy, GZIP, LZ4, Bzip2, Deflate, Brotli

* Number of securities covered | >150k

* Metadata data file available when used in conjunction with Investics ICE

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## Regulatory and Compliance

This product is allowed for internal use only, users are not permitted to redistribute the data as is externally.

If you're interested in a re-distribution of data use case, please contact at <support@investics.com>

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## Related Investics Links

* [Investics Website](https://www.investics.com)

* [Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE)](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B0891NJKK2?qid=1616106875447&sr=0-3&ref_=srh_res_product_title)

* [Investics DARTS Offerings](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?x=0&y=0&searchTerms=investics+darts)

* [Investics DARTS Sample Data Interactive Dashboards](https://www.investics.net/data)

* [Open FIGI Website](https://www.openfigi.com/)

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## Investics DARTS and Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE)

As a value added enrichment, **Investics DARTS** is designed to deliver datasets ready for downstream software consumption (BI Tools, report writers, cloud services, data lakes, data warehouses, databases and spreadsheets, just to name a few) by normalizing content across different data sources and remediating common anomalies which can cause data to be misinterpreted, rejected, dropped, misaligned or require additional redundant manual steps to make the data usable.

For **Investics DARTS** subscribers who also subscribe to the **Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE)** and along with many other ** Investics ICE** benefits, your **Investics DARTS** data files will automatically be propagated to your **Investics ICE Bucket** immediately after the DARTS AWS Data Exchange dataset revisions are added to the subscribed **Investics DARTS** product offerings. The **Investics ICE** framework can provide great assistance directly in investment analysis, as well as automating the flow of data from Investics DARTS to other systems, software and processes. For additional information on **Investics ICE**, please see below.

These **Investics DARTS** files are renamed when they arrive in the **Investics ICE Bucket** with date and time stamp for archiving and retrieval purposes and can be found in your AWS S3 Investics ICE Bucket under the folder\file names (with no spaces): \ Investics \ DARTS \ {vendor name} \ {vendor product name} \ {vendor sub-product name(s)} \ {filename} _ {date time stamp} . {filetype} . {compression filetype (if any)}

**Background** - ICE is a native cloud investment data and analytics platform-as-a-service (PaaS) which can be hosted by Investics as a managed service or provided standalone in a client’s own AWS environment. ICE can help institutional investors achieve “The Complete Investment Picture” across the multi-asset class risk and return spectrum. Running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Investics ICE is a next generation native cloud investment data and analytics platform which combines data collection, aggregation, modeling and management with dynamic calculation engines and visualizations to meet common institutional investor industry requirements including performance measurement, risk analytics, investment compliance and regulatory reporting.

ICE has four primary components:​

1. **DARTS** Data Aggregation Remediation Transformation Service - DARTS is a data delivery supermarket delivered through AWS Data Exchange. Subscribers can easily procure vendor data modeled and optimized for immediate use in downstream cloud and non-cloud software, BI Tools and systems. Data available through DARTS today include portfolio holdings and transactions, ESG, risk statistics, characteristics, benchmarks, security master and reference.

2. **Fusion** Data fabric construct - manage and govern the stitching and modeling of different institutional investor datasets for almost any downstream investment data and analytics use case. Data wrangling recipes provided via crowdsourcing. Automatically generate fit-for-purpose materialized views, data cubes and data marts.

3. **IMPRES** In-Memory Performance Risk Engine System - next generation performance and risk analytical engine which has maximum flexibility to instantly calculate in real time a truly customized risk and return service. IMPRES can accommodate some of today’s toughest performance measurement challenges including ABOR to IBOR to PBOR transformation, appropriate handling of private investments, flexible hierarchies,attribution and risk.

4. **Vision** Data visualization - produce highly customized interactive dashboards and reports with embedding capabilities to seamlessly integrate visualizations into clients’ own websites.

All of the ICE components are designed to deliver datasets ready for downstream software consumption (BI Tools, report writers, cloud services, data lakes, data warehouses, databases and spreadsheets, just to name a few) by normalizing content across different data sources and remediating common anomalies which can cause data to be misinterpreted, rejected, dropped, misaligned or require additional redundant manual steps to make the data usable. In addition, all of the ICE components can work independently or in tandem with each other. In fact, ICE will automatically flow DARTS subscription data, along with its metadata, straight through into ICE in order to automatically stitch related data together (including holdings and reference data) and generate materialized views, data cubes and data marts instantly connectable to value added data management capabilities, calculation engines and visualizations to accommodate an almost unlimited set of use cases.

For existing subscribers to AWS, it takes only about 10 minutes and costs virtually nothing to subscribe to ICE. ICE itself takes about 3 minutes to spin up once a subscriber has clicked through the subscription agreement options and provided some contact information. Upon verification by an Investics support staff member, a new subscriber receives a link to their hosted ICE environment via email and they are up and running. After a subscription to either ICE and a new DARTS offering it takes about 36 hours for DARTS subscription data and ICE to synchronize and begin to automatically update your Investics ICE Bucket.

For further information on the **Investics Cloud Ecosystem (ICE)**, please click [here.](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B0891NJKK2?qid=1616106875447&sr=0-3&ref_=srh_res_product_title)

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## Need Any Help?

Do not hesitate to contact us at <info@investics.com> or +1.781.472.2163 (during normal EST business hours).