Reference Data: A Dirty Job But Somebody's Got to Do It

Reference data has emerged as one of the hot topics over the past two years and one where firms have been prepared to spend money, partly because new regulations require consistent data across an organization. And perhaps because accurate reference data benefits everyone, rather than being an area where firms closely guard their competitive advantages, many users and vendors involved in this area have been happy to speak openly about it—as they do below in our roundtable. But as the responses