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| Economatica | |
|---|---|
| Name | Economatica |
| Type | Private |
| Industry | Financial services |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Founders | José Antonio Fernandes, Roberto Mendes |
| Headquarters | São Paulo, Brazil |
| Area served | Latin America, North America, Europe |
| Products | Financial data terminals, analytics, portfolio management, risk tools |
Economatica Economatica is a financial information company that provides quantitative analytics, historical databases, and market intelligence for investors, academics, and regulators. Its offerings combine time series of equity, fixed income, and corporate actions with analytical tools used by asset managers, banks, universities, and public agencies. Economatica's clientele spans multiple jurisdictions and integrates with research workflows in finance, accounting, and corporate governance.
Economatica offers financial data and analytical software focused on the Latin American capital markets and expanded coverage in global markets, serving users who require historical price series, corporate filings, and performance attribution. The company competes with multinational vendors in the financial information sector, operating in spaces occupied by Bloomberg L.P., Refinitiv, S&P Global, Morningstar, Inc., and FactSet Research Systems. Its products target professionals from institutions such as Banco do Brasil, BNDES, Itaú Unibanco, Goldman Sachs, and academic researchers at Fundação Getulio Vargas, Harvard University, and Wharton School.
Founded in 1991 by Brazilian entrepreneurs, Economatica developed initially to fill gaps in searchable historical equity data for the São Paulo exchange during a period of market reforms following the Collor Plan and financial deregulation in Brazil. The company grew alongside privatization waves and capital market liberalization seen in the 1990s that involved entities like Petrobrás and private banks. Over subsequent decades Economatica expanded coverage to other Latin American exchanges such as Bolsa de Valores de Lima, Bolsa de Valores de Colombia, and Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, while forming partnerships with universities and pension funds including Previ and Caixa Econômica Federal for research and compliance needs.
Economatica's core offerings include desktop terminals, web platforms, and API feeds delivering historical time series, corporate events, and financial statement data for equities and fixed-income instruments. Its analytics suite features performance metrics, return attribution, valuation multiples, and risk measures used by portfolio managers, sell-side analysts, and academic researchers from institutions like Stanford Graduate School of Business and London School of Economics. The company provides customized licensing tailored to asset managers such as BlackRock and sovereign wealth investors comparable to Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global in methodology requirements, as well as compliance and disclosure tools for regulators akin to workflows at Comissão de Valores Mobiliários and central banks.
Economatica maintains hand-curated databases integrating price series, adjusted corporate actions, dividends, stock splits, and financial statements standardized across jurisdictions. Its methodology combines primary sources like exchange filings, company reports, and prospectuses with cleaning algorithms similar in intent to approaches used by CRSP, Compustat, and Datastream. The firm documents procedures for handling delistings, mergers, and restatements to support backtesting and academic replication studies commonly conducted by researchers publishing in journals such as the Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies. Data quality audits and reconciliation workflows are comparable to practices at audit-focused organizations like the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board.
Economatica serves a diverse client base including institutional investors, brokerage houses, universities, hedge funds, pension funds, and regulators in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and beyond. Notable subscribers and collaborators include regional banks and investment firms—examples being Banco Bradesco, BTG Pactual, and XP Investimentos—as well as academic centers such as Insper and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. The company also engages with international partners for distribution and data licensing in markets involving New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and European venues like Borsa Italiana.
Economatica is privately held and managed by its founding team and senior executives based in São Paulo. Its governance model involves a small board and operational units for data acquisition, engineering, client services, and research support, paralleling structures found at boutique financial-information firms and regional data vendors. The company has pursued strategic alliances rather than public equity offerings, aligning with private ownership patterns seen at companies such as Moody's Analytics prior to major expansions and at independent vendors oriented to Latin American markets.
Economatica has been cited in academic research, investment reports, and media coverage for facilitating empirical studies on corporate governance, market efficiency, and asset pricing across Latin America. Scholars and practitioners have used its datasets in analyses comparable to work by researchers affiliated with National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard Business School, and regional policy institutions like Inter-American Development Bank. While smaller than global incumbents, Economatica's specialized coverage and historical depth have influenced portfolio construction, disclosure monitoring, and teaching at institutions such as Insper and Fundação Getulio Vargas, supporting a body of literature on emerging-market finance.
Category:Financial services companies of Brazil