Hi Parminder,
Thanks for your note. The FTD data is published by the SEC twice a month. This is the ONLY source of this data, which means everybody is getting it from the same place on the same schedule. We check the SEC site for the data automatically every few hours. When it's published on the SEC site, it shows up on Fintel pretty quickly.
To reiterate: every site gets the same FTD data from the SEC on the same schedule.
I hope this answers your questions,
Wilton