Budgets
When it Comes to IT Spend, RegTech Sees a Green Field
According to Opimas, the regtech space only pulls in 5 percent of the total IT spend pool, but that is going to change.
Burton Taylor: Sentiment Survey Predicts Positive Growth for 2017
The survey highlights pricing and reference data, valuations, risk and regulation-related spend as having the strongest sentiment for growth in spend.
Burton-Taylor: Regulatory Data Requirements Drive Global Data Spend Above $27Bn
Burton-Taylor's latest research shows industry data spend higher than anticipated, driven by spend on data to comply with new regulations.
A Very Data Christmas Carol: Silent Night
Max delivers his rundown of the top themes of the year... in verse!
Opening Cross: When Will the Money Men Support Their Support Services?
The front office needs to have its market data teams' backs, not back them into a corner.
Perseus Pushes Global ‘Spend Mobility’ Program
The program allows firms to reassign connectivity spend without penalty as they switch strategies between geographical markets.
Users Seek Justification for LSE Fee Hikes
The latest changes represent the third fee increase since July 2013.
Fitch Rating Fee Increases Anger Users
Some firms face fee increases of 100 percent as a result of the vendor's new license plans.
Burton-Taylor Predicts Positive Data Growth
Survey reveals most positive sentiment about industry growth since 2011.
Tabb Reports: Big Data, Outsourcing to Dominate Data Challenges, Spend
Firms are struggling to harness Big Data technologies, while overall data spend continues to rise.
NAFIS 2015: Cost Control Remains Key Focus for Consumers
Panel said collaboration with vendors is key to effective cost and change management.
Cost Optics Targets Wider Expense Management Categories Beyond Data
Vendor begins expansion of capabilities in brokerage space.
Opening Cross: Is Fee-Free Feasible?
Good management of data fees--even when waived--is a prperequisite to any talk of free data.
Rimes Panel Tackles Rising Data Management Costs
Cost, data quality and data management needs drive managed services debate.
EFIS 2014: Tighten Inventory Controls, Seek New Sources to Combat Cost Pressures, Says User Panel
Trading and investment firms still facing budget pressures are being more proactive about managing data costs, but are also being forced to be more proactive about seeking out new, cheaper alternative sources of data and managing their data usage to…
Slow Budget Growth Prompts New Spending Strategies
Anemic technology budget growth—a large portion of which is tied up in compliance—means firms are looking to make the most of the money they do have to spend on IT. Strategies for stretching the available dollars include restructuring budgets and…
Tabb: Firms Spend $25 Billion on Content, $3.1 Billion on Data Tech in 2013
Research firm Tabb Group’s Data and Analytics (DnA) group has released a new report, "Market Data Technology Innovation: Bigger Data, Simpler Solutions, Better Functionality," which estimates global spend on market data at about $25 billion in 2013,…
Kimsey: Developing Markets Driving Data Growth
Global spending on market data is poised to grow by just under 4 percent over the next two years to around $23.6 billion, driven by growing data consumption in new markets, according to an analysis of the trading technology sector carried out by UK-based…
Burton Taylor Forecasts Data Demand Drop in 2015
Growth in demand for market data and analysis is expected to contract─though not decrease─next year, despite a hitherto positive trend that saw global spend on market data and analysis rise 1.1 percent over 2012 to $25.88 billion at the end of 2013,…
Burton-Taylor: Data Demand Falls in 2013; Spend Driven by Price Hikes
Global spend on market data and analysis increased by 1.1 percent last year from $25.5 billion in 2012 to $25.88 billion in 2013, but would have been fallen if not for vendor price increases of an average two percent, according to research from Burton…
LSE Hits Users with Fee Double-Whammy
The London Stock Exchange has notified customers of a planned 2.5 percent increase in fees for a broad range of its market data services, covering the majority of its redistribution licenses, professional user fees, and non-display and application usage…
EFIS User Panel: Data Cost Control Becomes Cultural Shift
Continuing pressure on data budgets at end-user firms following the financial crisis is creating challenges for market data managers, but is also creating opportunities to bring new approaches to how firms source and consume data, said panelists at this…
Cost, Latency, Regulation: IMD's Editor on Hot Topics at IMD Events
Inside Market Data editor Max Bowie reflects on the themes from recent conferences, and predicts that the impact of regulation will be high on the agenda at next week's European Financial Information Summit and other upcoming IMD conferences.
Burton-Taylor: Mixed EMEA Data Spend Growth as Bloomberg Closes Gap on Thomson Reuters
Total spend on market data in EMEA reached $9.84 billion (€7.48 billion) in 2012, approximately 38.6 percent of global spend, with the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Scandinavia accounting for two-thirds of demand, according to a new report on EMEA…