Asian Users Juggle Data Sources

Controlling costs is a high priority for market data executives in Asia, just as it is for their colleagues in the rest of the world, according to the customer roundtable at the inaugural Inside Market Data Asia 2005 conference.

A problem unique to Asia, however, is the need to source data from both local and global vendors, which both increases costs and complicates standardization efforts.

"We continue to use local vendors because of timing of delivery and data quality," as well as their