Budgets
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…
James Rundle: The Heat of the Moment
There’s often a pressure to be seen to be nimble and adaptive to the latest technologies, whether it’s cloud, mobility, Big Data or anything else. However, according to James, as budgets get leaner, it’s important for firms to assess whether technologies…
Open Platform: Don’t Just Track the Cost of Market Data, Track the TCO of Market Data
Asset managers need a structured method for measuring the full cost of market data ownership, which is often unknown, or is poorly or inaccurately calculated. With data budgets still under pressure, it’s time to ditch the spreadsheets and find the hidden…
IPC Survey: Firms to Raise Data Spend, Target Social Media Data in 2013
Integration, new data sources top firms' data spend priorities for next year, according to a survey by IPC.
Open Platform: Index Data License Spend's ‘Period of Enlightenment'
Index licensing is an area of rising cost and complexity that firms with investments linked to specific indexes cannot easily escape. But many are ignoring tools and practices already in use for managing real-time data, impacting their ability to control…
Ed Flynn on Data Budgets and Regulation at Inside Market Data Chicago
Ed Flynn, principal of consultancy The Flynndex Company, discusses end-user data budget trends and the impact of new regulation on data consumption, after moderating the opening panel at Inside Market Data Chicago 2012.
Burton-Taylor: Risk to Drive Slim Data Spend Growth
Risk, commodities, emerging markets cited as growth areas for data spend by respondents to survey.