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Bloomberg ‘Spying’ May Spur Contract Rewrites

Industry observers say the revelation that Bloomberg journalists were able to access information on Bloomberg Professional terminal users’ activity could...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 17 May 2013

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Data Channel: Thank You, Farewell, But Not Quite Goodbye

Change can be good, bad, exciting, costly, or all of the above and more at the same time, but ultimately, change is inevitable. And the time has come for me to make a change, as I say farewell to Inside Market Data. When I was a little girl, all I dreamed...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | People | 22 Apr 2013

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Opening Cross: Whether You’re Microwaving or Tweeting, Keep Adding Value

Last week, the crucial connectivity route between market centers in New York and Chicago got a turbo boost with the announcements that CME Group and Nasdaq OMX will roll out a microwave network for wireless data transmission between the exchanges’ datacenters,...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 08 Apr 2013

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Company News Market Flat, Vendors Eye Asia

Spend on corporate news announcement services grew only 0.59 percent in 2012, to $667.1 million, though stronger growth demand for disclosure services among companies based in Asia may present new opportunities for global providers, according to a new...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 08 Apr 2013

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Reference Data, Valuations Drive Slim Growth

Vendor price increases accounted for much of a 2.34 percent increase in spend on market data products and services to $25.5 billion globally in 2012, with organic growth potentially slipping into negative figures, but buoyed by spend on pricing, reference...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 01 Mar 2013

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Opening Cross: From Startups and Dust-ups to Markups, Shakedowns and Breakdowns

Last week, I suggested that 2013 will be the year of the startup. This week, we bring you news of another new startup, Quandl, along with updates on recent startups MarketPsych and YCharts, and a stark comparison of the challenge faced by any startup...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 14 Jan 2013

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Burton-Taylor: Data Industry Spend Slows in 2012 on Lower Asia Growth

Annual spend on market data products and services grew to more than $25.5 billion worldwide in 2012—an estimated increase of between 1.5 percent and 1.75 percent over 2011—with lower than usual growth in Asia contributing to the relatively slim increase...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 14 Jan 2013

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2012 Review: Economy, Regulation Create Perfect Data Storm

Economic challenges didn’t just delay end-users’ spending decisions in 2012, but infiltrated every aspect of the financial markets, including the market data industry, which faced uphill struggles to reach amenable positions around licensing, while...

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 17 Dec 2012

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Costs, Regulation, Diversification Dominate Asia’s ‘New Reality’

As regulations compel firms to capture and store increasing amounts of data for compliance purposes, cost efficiencies enacted during the financial crisis are remaining part of firms’ long-term practices, with end-user firms, exchanges and data vendors...

Inside Market Data | News | Events | 09 Nov 2012

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Burton-Taylor: Risk to Drive Slim Data Spend Growth

Risk, commodities, emerging markets cited as growth areas for data spend by respondents to survey.

Inside Market Data | News | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 13 Jun 2012

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