[2] The acquisition consolidated and combined competing financial information provision, for example the FirstCall and IBES earnings estimate data, under the same company.

Thomson Financial and Reuters combined their businesses into the Markets Division: Sales & Trading, Enterprise, Investment & Advisory, and Media.

The two major data centers, not including smaller points of presence, for Thomson Financial were located in NYC and New Jersey.

[citation needed] In June 2007, Thomson Financial agreed to buy seven Asia-Pacific news bureaus from Xinhua Finance.

Thomson ONE is a core product, although legacy branded offerings such as Datastream Advance and Global Topic will probably remain for a few years.