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Industry Vets Harris, Toomey-Wilson Create Data Compliance Consultancy
Toomey-Wilson and Harris say their many years of experience can assist firms that lack expertise around dealing with data licensing, audits and compliance issues.
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Opening Cross: The Challenge of Achieving True Data Transparency
Transparency has been a focus for regulators and market participants in the wake of the financial crisis as they try to combat the potential impact of illiquid assets and imperfect market structures. And transparency—albeit of a different sort—was also a…
EFIS 2014: Hanna Urges Exchange Contract Standardization
To simplify and standardize the growing number and complexity of exchange data contracts and policies, exchanges should form an independent industry group to standardize contract terms and language, and how exchanges enforce their contract terms, Rafah…
Opening Cross: Everything Comes at a Cost, Even Cloud
Any discussion of return on investment relies on the ability to measure two things: the return generated, and the amount spent to achieve it. In the world of market data, the question is, “How much money can I make as a result of buying and using dataset…
DataContent Bows SmartSuite Market Data Governance, Cost Analysis Service
UK- and Hong Kong-based data consultancy DataContent has created a data governance service, dubbed SmartSuite, that puts in place a series of processes for data consumers to establish relationships between datasets and their parent sources, and to…
DataContent's Harris Talks China at WFIC Part 2
Following a panel discussion on business inside China at the World Financial Information Conference in Lisbon, Keiren Harris, Hong Kong-based director of market data consultancy DataContent speaks to IMD about the types of data in demand in China, and…
Wizards of Oz: Why ‘Down Under’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Down-and-Out’
Australia is about as far as you can get from the financial centers of New York, Chicago and London. But that isn’t stopping Antipodean entrepreneurs from setting their sights further afield.
Max Bowie: Unlucky ’13: Expect the Unexpected
With cautious optimism—and uncertainty—about the outlook for global economies and the financial markets in particular, Max taps a range of opinions on the prospects for the market data industry this year, and some of the perhaps unexpected issues that…
Will ’13 Prove Unlucky for Some?
The number 13 is often considered unlucky, and with that in mind, what better way for Inside Market Data to kick off 2013 than by asking 13 data industry experts to provide their views on what might prove unlucky or unforeseen for the industry this year…
Open Platform: Don’t Get ‘Owned’ By Data Ownership
The future of financial firms’ market data organizations will be defined by effective governance of external data and proprietary prices. But lack of standards and myriad disparate policies is creating opacity, confusion and potential liabilities, says…