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);

-- OR --

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.

Jonathan Haruni - Refinitiv

Use Jet.Quotes as Alex suggested to access info about the RIC. There is another field you'll get back, DSPLY_NAME, that provides a short, friendly name that can be used on screen to give a human some clue of what the instrument is. For stocks (cash equities) it is the company name. For most other security types it is more the name of the security than of the underlying company. It's meant to be concise and tell a person what the instrument is. Please experiment .... it may not always be what you want, a good example being a forex RIC where the field is (ab)used for something else.