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Telerate was a US company providing financial data to market participants, specialising in commercial paper and bond prices. It was a pioneer in the electronic distribution of real-time market information in the 1970s. With its main innovation being to extend the technology that was used to obtain live stock prices, via Telequote, Quotron or Stockmaster to other sectors of the financial industry, such as corporate debt, currencies, interest rates and commodities.
The company was founded by Neil Hirsch and it became a major provider of market data through the 1970s and 1980s. The company was bought by Dow Jones & Company in 1990 but the hedonistic lifestyle of its founders and senior manager clashed with the strait-laced culture of Dow Jones & Company causing issues within Dow Jones. Dow Jones' aim was to use Telerate to compete against market dominant Reuters. However, Dow Jones lost focus and the business was eventually consigned to backwater of the business. The business was sold a number of times and was renamed to Bridge Telerate and later Moneyline Telerate.
Reuters eventually bought the remains of Telerate in 2005. This saw the end of the company as Reuters absorbed the business into its own market data unit. It also lost numerous customers as many clients chose Telerate as an alternative to Reuters, and they were not happy to have those products now under Reuters’ roof. Some customers also got great deals out of Telerate, and Reuters was not happy to renew them on those terms.