| Quick Corp. | |
| Native Name: | 株式会社QUICK |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Hq Location: | Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower |
| Hq Location City: | Tokyo |
| Hq Location Country: | Japan |
| Revenue: | 30.2 billion yen |
| Revenue Year: | 2015 |
| Num Employees: | 653 |
| Num Employees Year: | 2016 |
(sometimes stylised "QUICK") is a financial market information vendor headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It was founded in 1971 as Quotation Information Center K.K. (株式会社市況情報センター), and changed its corporate name to the acronym "QUICK" in 1987.[1] [2] Quick has four offices in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka) as well as overseas offices in London and Hong Kong.[3]
Quick developed one of the three major Japanese real-time news database services in the 1980s (along with Jiji News Wire and Nikkei Telecom).[4]
Quick is responsible for calculating several Japanese financial market indices, including the well-known Nikkei 225 stock market index.[5] Quick also publishes "Quick Consensus" data based on corporate earnings and macroeconomic forecasts published by securities firms and analytics companies.[6]
In 2016, Quick introduced AI-based technology to automatically "read" corporate news releases and instantly generate news reports based on the contents.[7] In the same year, Quick announced a strategic equity investment in the US fintech startup Xignite, which provides cloud-based market data to financial institutions, with the goal of offering the technology to customers in Asia.[8] [9]