| 1971 | Founded as Japan’s first financial information vendor as ‘Quotation Information Center K.K.’ |
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| 1974 | ‘VIDEO-I’ Japan’s first online real-time securities information system starts |
| 1976 | ‘VIDEO-I’ starts in Hong Kong (the first Japanese online information system for business in an overseas market) |
| 1983 | QUICK Electronics Services Corp. (Current QES Corp.) established to provide maintenance service on varied QUICK system |
| 1984 | ‘Index Board’ a system for displaying financial indexes for wall display starts |
| 1986 | ‘QUICK-10’ comprehensive financial information system starts |
| 1987 | Name changes to QUICK Corp. with corporate identity project as part of the aim of becoming a global company. London subsidiary established (changed to branch status in 1994) |
| 1988 | New York subsidiary established |
| 1989 | Hong Kong subsidiary established (changed to representative office in 1999) |
| 1993 | ‘QUICK-21 Watch’ real time financial information system starts |
| 1994 | QUICK monthly market survey starts |
| 1996 | ‘QUICK-IS’ open systems era comprehensive financial information system starts |
| 1997 | ‘QUICK TradeNet’ an order routing and execution link between institutional investors and securities companies starts |
| 1998 | ‘QUICK IS-Web’ a pioneer internet era service for online trading starts |
| 2000 | ‘QUICK Business Research Institute Corp. (name changed to QBR Corp. in 2002)’ a specialist corporate and financial market research company established ‘QUICK LevelX’ series, services supporting retail securities and financial sales, start |
| 2002 | ‘QUICK ActiveManager’ a service meeting the needs of financial professionals starts |
| 2004 | ‘QUICK China Financial Web’ starts |
| 2005 | Company head office relocated to Nihonbashi Muromachi in Tokyo |
| 2006 | ‘Astra Consultant’ a retail asset management solutions service starts |
| 2007 | ‘Astra Manager’ portfolio and market analysis solutions for investment management starts |
| 2010 | QUICK awarded Best Real-Time Data Vendor 2010 and Long-Term Contract Information Vendor 2010 by Shanghai Stock Exchange |
| 2012 | ‘QUICK-FACTSET Global Web’ launched to provide worldwide company information in Japanese |
| 2013 | ‘Qr1’ (QUICK LevelX r1), a next generation service for securities starts |
| 2014 | QUICK ESG Research Center established ‘QUICK ESG Service’ with Eiris (current Vigeo Eiris) jointly starts Advance into Asia business with N2N Connect (Malaysia) and StoxPlus (Vietnam) ‘IRroid’ a service supporting IR for companies starts |
| 2015 | ‘QUICK FactSet Workstation’ with FactSet (USA) jointly starts ‘QUICK Money World’ a service for individual investors starts |
| 2016 |
The QUICK corporate logo was renewed and a new brand design was introduced QUICK absorbed QBR Co., Ltd., and established Corporate Valuation Research Center and Asset Management Research Center. QUICK starts providing the Glass Lewis’ [Proxy Paper reports] Invested in and formed a business tie-up with RIM INTELLIGENCE, which provides energy-related information |
| 2017 | QUICK Begins Providing Glass Lewis’ Proxy Vote Management Platform Obtained top-level Eruboshi certification, based on the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace |
| 2018 | Communication tool with Symphony Communication Services, LLC (USA) jointly starts Started offering the ‘QUICK Workstation’ for financial professional |
| 2019 | Financial Digital Solutions Ltd. established jointly with Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. Formed capital and business alliance with SCRIPTS Asia to providing event minutes for investors starts |
| 2021 | Establishment of QUICK Benchmarks Inc. (QBS), the TORF provider 50th anniversary of foundation Company head office relocated to Nihonbashi Kabutocho in Tokyo |
| 2022 | Established QUICK Trading Technologies Corp. (QTT) |
| 2023 | Full-scale operation of financial education support business Launched ‘QUICK Smart Brain’ service using generative AI |
