IMD Wrap
The IMD Wrap: No more turf wars, or why CDOs should heed the Voice of the CTO
Max reviews how our recent Voice of the CTO series has implications for those beyond a firm’s technology function, and how communication and collaboration between tech, data, and leadership will deliver better results.
The IMD Wrap: Blowing tires, engines and budgets in F1 and financial data
There are many similarities between Formula One and financial data—except when it comes to how much you can spend and how much spend contributes to success.
The IMD Wrap: Discoverability and visibility, the new challenge of alt data overload
There’s a novel kind of data tsunami on the horizon: the volume of new datasets, and trying to discern what’s out there—and how much of it is useful.
The IMD Wrap: Market data budgeting for 8-year-olds
Balancing a market data budget is challenging enough, but it’s even harder when cost pressures are tight, and when fees and discounts create extra confusion.
The IMD Wrap: As crypto rises, yes, reference data is VERY important
With the SEC’s approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs, Max explains why reference data will take on greater importance—whether non-data people know it or not.
The IMD Wrap: AI efforts will force renewed focus on data in 2024
Machine learning and generative AI offer a tremendous opportunity to help users obtain more insights from raw data, but these tools first need perfect datasets on which to base their decisions.
The IMD Wrap: Exchange, data vendor audits continue to rankle end-users—what will change in 2024?
While the data auditing process has been contentious for a long time, Max looks at some of the positive improvements made in 2023 and explains why more improvements need to be made in the New Year.
The IMD Wrap: Dining on data, from pay-as-you-go to all-you-can-eat
Max puts on his best Anthony Bourdain voice to reminisce about seminal sushi experiences, and to look forward to the future, where perhaps the industry will also adopt more consumption-based approaches to market data (and hopefully more sushi).
The IMD Wrap: Are server life extensions putting profits before performance?
Cloud providers are having to make more hardware available to keep pace with takeup—including older machines that under previous policies would have been retired already. But the move is proving profitable … and risky.
The IMD Wrap: Price you gotta pay
With regulators taking aim at data providers in the ongoing war over data fees, Max says that data doesn’t need to be free, but it should be transparent, that price increases should accompany increases in value, and that technology already exists to…
The IMD Wrap: Talkin’ ’bout my generation
As a Gen-Xer, Max tells GenAI to get off his lawn—after it's mowed it, watered it and trimmed the shrubs so he can sit back and enjoy it.