[3] Quick developed one of the three major Japanese real-time news database services in the 1980s (along with Jiji News Wire and Nikkei Telecom).
[4] Quick is responsible for calculating several Japanese financial market indices, including the well-known Nikkei 225 stock market index.
[5] Quick also publishes "Quick Consensus" data based on corporate earnings and macroeconomic forecasts published by securities firms and analytics companies.
[6] In 2016, Quick introduced AI-based technology to automatically "read" corporate news releases and instantly generate news reports based on the contents.
[7] In the same year, Quick announced a strategic equity investment in the US fintech startup Xignite, which provides cloud-based market data to financial institutions, with the goal of offering the technology to customers in Asia.