Earlier this year, FTSE was awarded “Best Index Provider 2005” award, by an industry magazine, in recognition of its excellence and innovation in indexing. The company was also included for the first time in Europe’s 500, Europe’s only listing of high growth, job-creating companies, calculated by KPMG for Entrepreneurs for Growth.
Beginning in 1995 as a start up company with nine employees, the company has grown exponentially and today operates a suite of products covering a range of asset classes in the international and UK markets – and now enjoys the largest market share (ex US) of the USD6.7 trillion market. FTSE has grown into a strong UK success story, both as an exporter of financial indexing services to 77 countries worldwide, as well as an employer. Today the company employs over 180 financial services professionals in eleven cities worldwide.
Mark Makepeace, Chief Executive, said, “The global acceptance of FTSE and its products is a source of great pride to us. The whole company has worked hard to break into the entrenched index market and we've succeeded by developing and launching innovative products and services to support the ever more sophisticated investment industry. FTSE's achievement in becoming a leading global index provider today is due to the hard work and professionalism of our employees and the strong support of our shareholders, partners and clients."
More information about FTSE and some highlights from the company’s highlights over the last ten years, are available from www.ftse.com/media.
