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New working group to create open framework for managing rising market data costs
Substantive Research is putting together a working group of market data-consuming firms with the aim of crafting quantitative metrics for market data cost avoidance.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: How do firms create data products?
Standard Chartered’s David Sharratt joins the podcast to discuss creating data products.
Snowflake partners with BMLL in another big tech-fintech tie up
The collaboration comes as part of both companies’ desire to eliminate end users’ need for intensive data engineering, as well as costly in-house data storage.
How exchanges are becoming more than just marketplaces
Wei-Shen examines how exchanges are branching out and pursuing new ventures that could bring them fresh revenue streams.
Big bank mergers, big cuts in data spend? Not so fast, experts say
With hundreds of millions of dollars spent per year on data and associated technologies, a merger the size of UBS’ takeover of Credit Suisse has the potential to take a huge chunk out of data vendors’ revenues. What’s the path forward?
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Episode 255 (Wfic and everything cloud)
Josephine joins the podcast to discuss what went down at the World Financial Information Conference (Wfic) in Prague.
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan join forces to explore market data in the cloud
The banks’ vision is for vendors and consumers to be able to distribute and access all data sources in a multi-cloud environment. They’re mapping the way to get there.
Is disruption finally coming for the index business?
Regulatory developments and startups gaining some ground may—one day—threaten the incumbent providers in this space.
In the world of financial data, context—not content—is the new king
For years, the mantra of the market data world has been ‘content is king.’ But with trading strategies now more dependent on being able to see the big picture, the value of context could quickly overtake the data itself.
Market data plans revive proposals to move odd lots onto Sips
Consultation on democratizing odd lots data closes next week, but more solutions to order protection concerns may be needed.
One versus many: Firms question viability of UK CT model
Market participants and industry groups are challenging the UK government’s approach to a competitive framework for the consolidated tape.
Partnerships—Making the Data Industry Go Around
Exchange partnerships play a pivotal role across the capital markets by providing investors with data they wouldn’t ordinarily have access to, while simultaneously streamlining the legal and operational complexities associated with accessing that new…
Confusion remains over SEC’s market data efforts
Jo ponders some of the important pieces of the regulator’s National Market System modernization that remain obscure.
SEC’s CT Plan timetable is ‘unrealistic’
Implementing governance structure for new US public equities datafeeds within a year is highly unlikely, say industry observers.
GameStop post-mortem: Alt data world confronts eroding barrier between online and real life
After Redditors staged an epic short squeeze against a handful of hedge funds, some in the industry are left wondering whether today’s models and data techniques are prepared for world where online often equals real life.
Not so Fast: SEC’s SIP Rule Speeds Ahead, But Faces Bumpy Road
Jo is skeptical that the SEC’s finalized market data infrastructure rule will make the public market data feeds faster.
Bloomberg Enlists NLG to Write News Summaries
The data provider is using natural language generation to summarize news articles and write automated stories.
Crux Extends Google Cloud Partnership with Data Catalog Integration
After partnering with GCP last year, the data delivery vendor is working on its most in-depth integration thus far.
Small Change, Big Challenge: Battling the Rising Tide of Data Notifications
With data notifications growing in volume and complexity, firms are finding it harder to keep track of these changes. Some vendors are looking to help.
Industry Still at Odds Over Use Case for an EU Consolidated Tape
Market participants say they want a high-quality, centralized source of market data for EU equities. But who and what is it actually for?
Delivering a Winning Data Strategy—Optimizing Your Data Ecosystem
This webinar focusses on the intricacies of the industry’s data supply chain, suppliers’ and consumers’ day-to-day pain points and how they can be remedied, the crucial role that cloud plays as a catalyst for enablement and change, and the solutions and…