Thomson Financial provides information, news, and technology solutions to the financial community. The company offers support for various stages of the investment processes from pre to post trade and front to back office for asset management; and precision screening, targeting tools, and analytics for providing advice on corporate strategy and structure, capital-raising, and mergers and acquisitions for private equity, institutional, and investment banking. It also provides access to various sources for trading and financial analytics for hedge funds; investor relations, corporate communications, corporate finance and intelligence, and corporate treasury services for corporations; and tools and information to improve productivity, provide advice, and grow relationships with clients for wealth management. In addition, the company supports the trading workflow from market awareness and liquidity/price discovery to order management, trade execution, and post-trade analytics for institutional equities; and provides online fixed-income marketplaces, market data, straight-through processing, and analysis for fixed income. Thomson Financial was formerly known as Technical Data International. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in New York, New York. Thomson Financial operates as a subsidiary of Thomson Corporation.