Telecomet International, formed in Tokyo in 1984 as a joint venture between Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co, Japan Airlines and Telecomet Japan, has developed and begun marketing an information and analysis system that provides real-time share and bond price data, data from the international futures market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and bond dealing information from Japan Sogo Securities: the $120,000 system can be operated from one keyboard – using hardware developed by Telecomet – and can provide various analyses such as spread of bond futures and predicted return, plus charting on the basis of real-time data; Telecomet has been the distributor for Control Data’s Micrognosys and its Trade system, selling it around 30 financial institutions.
