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Costs, Regulations Drive Firms to Review Data, Tech in Toronto

As data budgets remain tight, more firms in Toronto are focusing on implementing more flexible data architectures that are customizable, scalable and sustainable.

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Market Data Management | 17 Jul 2012 | video

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Reflections on the Paris Financial Information Summit

Faye Kilburn and Nicholas Hamilton speak to delegates at the Paris Financial Information Summit on June 12 about regulation, data management strategies and vendor-practitioner collaboration

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Data Management | 06 Jul 2012 | video

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Innovation Returns to the Market Data Space, Even as Challenges Persist

The IMD team discusses the key takeaways from this year's North American Financial Information Summit.

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Market Data Management | 29 May 2012 | video

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12 for ’12: Key Themes for the Year Ahead

With gradual economic improvement in developed economies expected to drive continued interest in emerging markets and technologies in 2012, the industry will look to leverage existing investments for new uses, and make strategic investments in content...

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 09 Jan 2012

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Market Data Webcast: Firms Eye Cost Controls as Budgets Begin to Bite

Click here to download the PDF. In recent years, market data managers have come under increased pressure to reduce expenditure at the same time that vendor and exchange fees have increased. For many data managers, it has become a continuous struggle...

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 12 Dec 2011

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Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference: Asia Weighs Benefits, Costs of Low Latency

Asia-Pacific firms must carefully evaluate the cost of investments in low-latency technologies, since such a small portion of the region supports high-frequency trading, but should consider where these investments can yield other benefits, according to...

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Data Delivery Technologies | 14 Nov 2011

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Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference: Vendors Tackle Data ‘Proliferation’ in Asia

Asia’s growth is prompting changes to financial firms’ data requirements, leading to consumption of more data from multiple sources and forcing vendors to address the region differently from their business in other geographies, according to a panel...

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 14 Nov 2011

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Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference: Panel Debates Direct Connects, Agreements

Firms are increasingly working directly with data sources—especially as those sources roll out new feeds that require new usage policies—but sometimes still find vendors playing important roles around billing and administration, according to an FISD...

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 14 Nov 2011

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Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference: Panel Eyes ‘Social’ Data Sources, Tools

Panelists at the Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference mulled the value of new types of data, but warned that increased transparency may only lead to increased noise, and that the jury is still out on whether the cost of separating out valuable...

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 14 Nov 2011

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Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference Panel: Asia Co-Location Centers Must Open Up

Panelists at last week’s conference called for ways to make co-location more accessible to make cross-market trading more practical in the region. Exchanges are too restrictive over who can access the centers, and do not provide sufficient latency transparency...

Inside Market Data | Analysis | Industry Issues & Initiatives | 14 Nov 2011

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