Financial Research and Analysis Database

The subject of this procurement is the provision of the Financial Research and Analysis Database System as a Software as a Service (SaaS) for the use of the Customer. The procurement concerns a financial research and analysis database required for Finnfund's Investment Analysis team, Investment Operations department, and Economist team. The Investment Analysis team is the main user of the database, but the Investment Operations Department and Economist team also need it. The procurement concerns 15 licences given for investment analysts in the Investement Analysis team, one economist and some investment managers in Investment Operations department. Financial research and analysis database must have a comprehensive global market data and intelligence, advanced analytics and workflow tools to enhance operational efficiency and improve analysis to investment decision-making. The requirements for the Service are presented in Appendix 2: Requirements.

Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Ltd (Finnfund) provides equity financing, mezzanine financing, long-term loans, and special expertise related to development investments for private companies operating in developing countries. We require all projects to be profitable, environmentally and socially responsible, and to have measurable development impacts in the target country. We emphasise sectors important for sustainable development, such as clean energy production, sustainable forestry and agriculture, and the financial sector, but we also finance other sectors.