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A new market data hope or an expanding Empire

Market data is now part of systemic infrastructure rather than just a commercial product. Tim Versteeg questions if market data is becoming too powerful to fail.

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With May the Fourth Be with You Day here, the usual references to empires, rebels, and the balance of power are sure to sift—or should that be Sith—through endless social feeds. Yes, it is a light-hearted annual cultural moment, but this year it also happens to shine some light on a real change taking place in capital markets. While trading venues once competed on execution, the real concentration of power today is happening in a market data galaxy not so far away.

There is a prevailing view that

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