Exchange Telegraph Co Ltd, known as Extel, was a financial news and information service founded in London in March 1872, pioneering the delivery of stock market and commercial data over ticker-tape telegraph to offices, banks and clubs. It broadened into parliamentary news in 1876, general news in 1879 and legal services in 1891, and by 1913 ran a worldwide news service; in 1922 it introduced Extel cards, an early form of standardized corporate data snapshot. A series of acquisitions and mergers between 1987 and 2007 folded the business into what is now Thomson Reuters.
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Thomson Financial and Extel itself was then merged into Thomson Reuters in 2007.
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The Exchange Telegraph Co. Ltd. (also known as Extel) was created in March 1872 specifically to distribute financial and business information from the London Stock Exchange and other commercial markets direct to subscribers.
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