Whois & Analysis for icap.com

An Inter-dealer broker (IDB) is specialist financial intermediary that facilitates transactions between broker-dealers, dealer banks and other financial institutions rather than private individuals.

NEX Group plc, formerly known as ICAP plc, is a UK-based business focused on electronic markets and post trade business.

The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

Information is that which informs.

In other words, it is the answer to a question of some kind.

It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts.

As it regards data, the information's existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer (it exists beyond an event horizon, for example), while in the case of knowledge, the information requires a cognitive observer.

Data (or) is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables.

An example of qualitative data would be an anthropologist's handwritten notes about his or her interviews with people of an Indigenous tribe.

Pieces of data are individual pieces of information.

While the concept of data is commonly associated with scientific research, data is collected by a huge range of organizations and institutions, including businesses (e.g., sales data, revenue, profits, stock price), governments (e.g., crime rates, unemployment rates, literacy rates) and non-governmental organizations (e.g., censuses of the number of homeless people by non-profit organizations).

A contract is a voluntary arrangement between two or more parties that is enforceable by law as a binding legal agreement.

Contract is a branch of the law of obligations in jurisdictions of the civil law tradition.

Contract law concerns the rights and duties that arise from agreements.