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==Services and products==

The Data Explorers database tracks $12 trillion of lendable securities, with $2 trillion of loan balances on average covering 30,000 equities, 40,000 corporate bonds and 80,000 government bonds. The company products include APIs, Data FeedsmFeeds, Excel Toolkits, Mobile Apps, web-based platforms and channel partners including [[Bloomberg LLC]], [[Thomson Reuters]], [[Factset]], [[Markit]] and [[Capital IQ]].

Data Explorers data is used as a proxy for short interest data by the mainstream media, including ''[[The Financial Times]]'' <ref>[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/de746048-3ccf-11dd-b958-0000779fd2ac.html Short-sellers not to blame for HBOS price fall says ISLA chief, James Mackintosh, Financial Times, June 18 2008 ]</ref>, ''[[The Economist]]'' <ref>[http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=11591349 Nasty, brutish and short, The Economist print edition, June 19 2008 ]</ref>, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' <ref>[http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2008/07/17/the-financial-short-selling-spike/ The Financial Short-Selling Spike, David Gaffen, Marketbeat, The Wall Street Journal, July 17 2008 ]</ref>, and ''Bloomberg'' <ref>[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aVcNiopBICVw Hedge Funds Covered Bradford & Bingley Shorts as Lender Rallied, Tom Cahill, Bloomberg News, June 26 2008]</ref>