RavenPack Wins "Best Specialist Data Provider" at Technical Analyst Awards 2013

LONDON, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

RavenPack, the leading provider of real-time financial news analysis services, received recognition as the "Best Specialist Data Provider" at the Technical Analyst Awards 2013 held in London on Thursday April 18th.

In making the award, the judging panel of leading financial figures highlighted RavenPack's unique and innovative data set backed up by rigorous research, giving the company's clients an enviable edge when developing and executing trading strategies. RavenPack faced stiff competition in the category from other high profile specialist data vendors from the news analytics field and elsewhere.

"This is not only fabulous recognition for RavenPack," says Armando Gonzalez, RavenPack's chief executive, "it is an acknowledgement of the importance of news analytics as a unique data set for use in systematic and discretionary trading and investment."

In the 2012 Technical Analyst Awards, RavenPack won the "Best Specialist Research" category.

About RavenPack:  RavenPack is a leading provider of real-time news analysis services. Professionals rely on RavenPack for its speed and accuracy in analyzing large amounts unstructured news and transforming it into real-time actionable data to support trading, investment and risk management models and decisions. Financial institutions use RavenPack's services to generate better returns by systematically incorporating the effects of news in their trading, investment or risk management processes. The company's clients include some of the best performing quantitative firms in the world.

To learn more about RavenPack, visit http://www.ravenpack.com or e-mail info@ravenpack.com.

Contacts:

Tony Cross
Tel: +44-7973284749
e-mail: tony@monkcommunications.com

Tania Calvo

Tel: +34-952907390
e-mail: tcalvo@ravenpack.com