Data license policies
BATS Readies MiFID 2-Compliant Data Policy
BATS Europe will offer two commercial policies for its data──its existing policy, and one designed to help firms affordably meet the requirements of MiFID 2.
Open Platform: What to Expect When You’re Indexing
Members of law firm Ropes & Gray's intellectual property team discuss the legal precedents behind licensing disputes, and share advice on how firms should treat datasets that might contain copyrightable IP.
Users Brace for S&P–SNL Fee Increases
S&P is telling clients that it plans to move its price structure to enterprise licenses, which will likely result in fee increases, sources say.
Euronext Preps Fee-Free European Indexes
Euronext will not charge firms to license the indexes, providing that they are using the indexes to create new investment products.
Taifex Taps Deutsche Börse for International Data Licensing
Deutsche Börse already provides licensing for other exchanges, including BSE India, and the Irish and Bulgarian stock exchanges.
Opening Cross: To Ensure Data Quality, Keep Long Leases on Short Leashes
Sell-off-and-lease-back strategies require supreme—award-winning, even—confidence in your partners.
Moscow Exchange Revamps Non-Member Data Purchasing
The new, web-based purchasing option will allow the exchange to better serve the many non-members who use its data.
3Di Delays Profiler Updates to Navigate Data License "Minefield"
The vendor will push back upgrades until May
Open Platform: Praying for Change: Don't Blame Data Fees; Blame the Policies
DataContent's Rafah Hanna explains why market data fees may be a necessary evil, but not an "immoral" one, and suggests how firms can halt the growth of fees.
LME Bows Third-Party Data Fees, Licensing Portal
The move brings LME in line with other exchanges around data usage for non-trading purposes.
Axon Adds ‘What If' Cost Calculation Module to PEAR Policy Platform
The module will instantly calculate the price of adding a data service, taking into accout the latest license policies.
Users Seek Justification for LSE Fee Hikes
The latest changes represent the third fee increase since July 2013.
Deutsche Börse Rolls out New Data Fees, Policy Changes
German exchange group Deutsche Börse's Market Data + Services arm has made a number of changes to its Market Data Dissemination Agreement, including clarifying definitions used in the policy, the introduction of new licenses, and sweeping price rise…
Fitch Rating Fee Increases Anger Users
Some firms face fee increases of 100 percent as a result of the vendor's new license plans.
ICE Preps Europe, US Futures Data Fee Hike
The exchange is implementing a 15 percent fee increase for its market data feeds.
Industry Divisions Stall Standards Progress
Members of FISD's BIPPS working group say participants are putting their own interests first, hampering progress.
Interactive Brokers Hires Bill Lee as Data Advisor
The data veteran will advise the broker on issues relating to contract negotiation and data licenses.
EFIS 2015: Panel Weighs Cost vs. Value of Data
Managing costs, quality and compliance remains top of data consumers' agendas.
EBS BrokerTec Draws Fire for Unbundling, Fees
The FX and bond trading platform has irked customers by introding separate fees for previously-bundled products.
S&P DJI Taps SIX Feed to Monitor Index Licensing Compliance
The SIX data will allow S&P DJI to track usage of its own indexes to create index-linked products.
Axon Unveils Outsourced Exchange Data Reporting Tool
The service eliminates the time-consuming and repetitive manual processes associated with reporting usage to exchanges.
Ballintrae, FISD Hatch BERRD in Asia-Pac
Alliance will bring BERDD access to FISD's Asia membership.
Opening Cross: A Misplaced Sense of Entitlement?
Last week, we at Inside Market Data experienced a problem that’s already an all-too-frequent issue for data industry participants—unauthorized and non-compliant usage of proprietary data. After all, just like the major data vendors and newswires, we…
Japan Exchange Announces New Data Policy
The exchange is introducing new policies for those that connect to its data directly.