Tine Thoresen: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Room

At a holiday drinks reception before Christmas, an industry partygoer asked me, “What’s hot in reference data?” These days, however, this question kind of misses the point—the reference data industry has now almost come to the stage when it’s no longer about what’s hot in our industry, but that reference data is hot in general. And the hotter it gets, the more people the industry attracts.

Both vendors and end-user firms appear to be hiring, and creating new reference data positions. On the