ISI Emerging Markets Group

Name

ISI Emerging Markets Group

Legal name

ISI Markets

Website

https://isimarkets.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Data and Market Intelligence

NAICS

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523), Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940)

SIC

Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services (6200), Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Analytics, Risk Models & Factor/Style Indices (FSAFAIAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Emerging Markets Debt Trading (Hard & Local Currency) (FSACAEAE)

Keywords

• Emerging markets intelligence
• Macroeconomic data
• Fund flow analytics
• Alternative data feeds
• Company and industry intelligence

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription Services: Subscription-based access to proprietary intelligence platforms and databases. Subscribers register and pay for ongoing access to CEIC, EMIS, EPFR, REDD, and iMoneyNet products. Services provided directly by ISI through official websites.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ISI Emerging Markets Group operates a unified proprietary intelligence platform that aggregates macroeconomic, company, industry, fund flow, special situations, and money market fund data covering 200+ countries through five product lines: CEIC, EMIS, EPFR, REDD, and iMoneyNet. Customers access the platform via web login, Snowflake, API, and data feeds under annual enterprise subscriptions sold directly by ISI. Target buyers include investment banks, buyside firms, corporates, government agencies, professional services firms, and academic institutions.

Product overview

ISI Emerging Markets Group operates a unified proprietary intelligence platform combining five core product lines: CEIC (macroeconomic and sector data), EMIS (emerging markets company and industry intelligence), EPFR (fund flows and investor sentiment), REDD (emerging market special situations and distressed debt intelligence), and iMoneyNet (money market fund data). The platform tracks $70+ trillion in assets, covers 200+ countries and territories, monitors 22 million companies across 370+ industry sectors, and is supported by 750+ specialists worldwide. CEIC offers regional premium databases for ASEAN, Brazil, China, India, and Russia plus high-frequency alternative data. Data is delivered via platform access, Snowflake, API, and feeds.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CEIC: Leading provider of macroeconomic and sector data - comprehensive global macroeconomic data and analytics platform
• EMIS
• EPFR
• REDD
• iMoneyNet

Products and services

• CEIC CEIC is the leading macroeconomic and sector data product of ISI Markets, covering 200+ countries and regions with 22 million time series, including standardized data for cross-country analysis and high-frequency and Point-in-Time data for quant workflows. Used by investment managers, banks, corporates, government, and academia for macro research, asset allocation, and risk assessment.
• EMIS EMIS provides trusted emerging markets company and industry intelligence, including comprehensive company data, industry analysis, and news purpose-built for fast-moving industries and emerging economies. Powered by local expertise to deliver insights that global datasets miss, used for strategic, risk, and investment decisions.
• EPFR EPFR provides industry-leading fund flows and asset allocation data across intraday, daily, weekly, and monthly timeframes, tracking institutional and retail investor flows and fund manager allocations across global markets with 155K+ share classes and 25K+ individual stocks.
• REDD REDD provides alpha-generating intelligence on high-yield, special situations, and distressed debt in emerging markets, with timely, actionable insights on emerging market special situations including high-yield, distressed debt, and corporate and sovereign debt coverage for investors and advisors.
• iMoneyNet iMoneyNet is the industry standard for money market fund data, tracking over 2,000 money market funds covering $9+ trillion in assets with 40+ years of historical data and 40+ industry-standard benchmarks, used for cash investment decisions and peer performance benchmarking.
• CEIC World Trend Plus CEIC World Trend Plus provides a single access point for benchmarking and reference data, offering robust and in-depth insights into the performance of global economies for macro researchers and investment analysts.
• CEIC ASEAN Premium CEIC ASEAN Premium provides a harmonised view of the ASEAN region with 5M+ time series, 42K+ indicators, and 400+ sources for understanding Southeast Asia's fast-evolving economies.
• CEIC Brazil Premium CEIC Brazil Premium provides deep, reliable data on Brazil's sectors and industries with expert insight into the country's dynamic economy for corporate and investment research teams.
• CEIC China Premium CEIC China Premium provides 1M+ time-series records on macro, sector, and regional data offering a complete resource for research on China's economy.
• CEIC India Premium CEIC India Premium provides 800K+ time series across macro, 20+ industries, and HS trade data structured from national down to state, district, and city level for India-focused research.
• CEIC Russia Premium CEIC Russia Premium provides bilingual, continuously updated macro, sectoral, trade, and alternative datasets blending official statistics with hard-to-find local sources for research on the Russian economy.
• CEIC High Frequency Data CEIC High Frequency Data provides 500K+ daily and weekly time series across 15 alternative data topics tracking the economy in near-real time, covering consumption, trade and supply chains, prices/inflation, and mobility to spot turning points ahead of official releases.

Quantifiable outcome

• Awarded Best Alternative Data Provider to the Buyside (2024) by Waters Technology

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• REDD IntelligencecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 May 2022ISI Emerging Markets Group acquired REDD Intelligence, a provider of news and research focused on high yield and distressed situations in emerging markets. This acquisition expanded ISI's coverage into fixed income markets and enhanced its presence in local emerging markets through REDD's operations in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia. REDD is now one of five key brands under ISI Markets.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• MSCI: MSCI provides indices, ESG, and analytics used by the same buyside and asset-owner customers that subscribe to ISI. MSCI's EM indices and fund-flow-adjacent analytics overlap with EPFR and CEIC; both target institutional asset allocators with subscription data products.
• PitchBook (Morningstar): PitchBook provides private-market deal, fund, and company data for institutional investors. It overlaps with EMIS's company intelligence and ISI Strategic Datasets for the private-markets and M&A origination use cases that ISI highlights as core customer challenges.
• Wind Information: Wind is China's leading financial data terminal and a major EM specialist provider serving asset managers and banks across Asia. Wind competes most directly with CEIC China Premium and CEIC's broader Asia-Pacific offering for institutional customers operating in Chinese and regional markets.
• Morningstar: Morningstar provides investment research, fund data, and analytics — including fund-flow and asset-allocation intelligence overlapping with EPFR. Both companies sell subscription data to buyside firms and intermediaries, though Morningstar's footprint skews more DM with growing EM coverage.
• FactSet: FactSet delivers integrated financial data, analytics, and workflow tools to investment managers and investment banks, with content including company fundamentals, estimates, and fund flows. FactSet competes directly for the same enterprise research and analytics budgets that ISI addresses with EMIS, EPFR, and CEIC.
• S&P Global Market Intelligence: S&P Global Market Intelligence (including Capital IQ Pro) provides company financials, M&A data, fund flows, and macroeconomic intelligence overlapping directly with CEIC, EMIS, and EPFR. It serves the same enterprise financial-services buyer with bundled desktop and data-feed offerings.
• Preqin (part of BlackRock): Preqin is a leading provider of private-markets data and intelligence covering funds, deals, and performance. ISI Strategic Datasets explicitly includes private-markets intelligence, positioning Preqin as a peer for the subset of ISI's offerings aimed at PE, venture, and private credit allocators.

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg: Bloomberg's Terminal and enterprise data products deliver broad cross-asset market data and analytics including EM coverage. ISI competes head-to-head with Bloomberg for EM-focused research, fund-flow, and macroeconomic subscriptions, but operates as a specialist alternative rather than a full terminal incumbent.
• LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group / Refinitiv): LSEG operates Workspace, Lipper fund-flow data, and a broad range of market data and analytics — including EM coverage through Eikon/Workspace. Like Bloomberg, LSEG is a broad incumbent bundling EM intelligence into multi-asset enterprise offerings competitive with ISI's specialized stack.
• Moody's (Bureau van Dijk): Moody's, through Bureau van Dijk's Orbis database, provides private company information globally including EM. It directly overlaps with EMIS's 17M+ emerging-market company profiles and is increasingly bundling analytics into ratings-adjacent enterprise offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/isi-emerging-markets-group

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A2 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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