Eikon JET - Retrieve Company Name

Matt Boland

Using the JET API I am able to get the RIC code for the current context. Am I also able to retrieve the company name for the current context? Or for that RIC code, turn around and look up it's associated company name?

var ctxtChangeCallback = function(contextData) {
console.log("The web page got the following new context : ");
var entities = contextData.length > 0 ? contextData : null;
if (entities == null) {
console.log("No relevant context was provided to the page");
} else {
var currentRicCode = entities[0]["RIC"];
console.log("First context we have is : " + currentRicCode);
}
};
JET.onContextChange(ctxtChangeCallback);

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var currentSymbol = JET.getActiveSymbol();

Alex Putkov.1

Hi Matt,

A RIC can refer to any type of financial instrument including foreign exchange and interest rates, fixed income, derivatives, economic indicators and so on and so forth. A good portion of the RICs universe have no relation to any company or legal entity.
For equity RICs you can get short company name using JET.Quotes API and field CF_NAME.
One drawback is that JET only provides access to real-time data, which is subject to exchange data permissioning. Even though a company name is not a fee liable piece of data, JET will only retrieve it if the user is entitled to view the data from the exchange where the stock is traded.