Budgets
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.