A Culture of Trust: DTCC's Ron Jordan
In 2010, Ron Jordan left NYSE, swapping market data for reference data and the opportunity to build a proprietary data business at clearing and settlement utility the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., where Max Bowie caught up with him. Photos by Amy Fletcher

This makes for an interesting balancing act for the man charged with finding ways to commercialize DTCC’s data assets while at the same time ensuring that client data is protected. But six and a half years into the job, Jordan isn’t feeling the seven-year itch. After all, he spent more than two decades at NYSE before deciding it was time to move on.
An icy wind was blowing through Jersey City, now home to DTCC’s offices, when Inside Data Management met with Jordan, but he eased the chill by
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