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Vendor Negotiation Tactics for Optimizing Market Data Costs
As businesses increasingly rely on market data to drive their decision-making processes, negotiating favorable terms with vendors becomes paramount.
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Inventory Management: Organizing and Optimizing Your Market Data Resources
By implementing effective inventory management strategies, financial institutions can streamline their operations, reduce costs, and make informed decisions based on accurate and up-to-date information.
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The Strategic Importance of Market Data Management in Financial Institutions
This article explores the strategic importance of market data management in financial institutions and the challenges they face in handling this valuable resource.
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The Benchmark Review
In our benchmark review we aim to capture and analyze business spend, document and record internal workflows and compare these results with standards we view lead the industry. The review is broken down into down into 4 sections
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The Art of Vendor Escalation & Management
When working with market data vendors it’s helpful to build a good rapport with your point of contact and have an open line of communication. Establishing a human connection with your point of contact could be quite valuable if you ever need a quick
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The New Normal - Remote Working
The debate about remote working has been going on for many years and with the current Covid virus it has become more relevant.
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MSCI gauges move to HKEX
On May 28th, 2020 Shares in the Singapore Exchanged suffered their biggest fall in 17 years when MSCI accounted that it would move its licensing for derivatives product on a host of gauges to HKEX next year.
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Soft Dollar Administration
Soft dollars are a means of paying for market data and research services through a brokerage firm’s account rather than your own company’s account.
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Market Data Cost Management Using BI
By providing frequent and dynamic spending reporting, market data consumers and teams can get a recurring view of their costs, increases and decreases, so come year-end there are no surprises when communicating their data expenses.
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Market Data Spend Management & Analytics
Having an inventory management system and a scalable reporting framework to provide costs transparency is one of the ways we help our clients.
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S4 Market Data Launches LATAM FX Rates and Bitcoin LATAM FX Cross Rates on MarketDesk Free Mobile App
S4 Market Data has partnered with ydotm to launch LATAM FX Rates and Bitcoin LATAM FX Cross Rates on the MarketDesk free mobile app.
Exchange Compliance
Are you prepared for your next Exchange Audit?
Market Data compliance audits allow data providers, such the global exchanges and data vendors, to ensure your organization is sticking to the rules.
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Market Data Licensing Recommendations
We’ve pulled together a list of items to consider when determining what vendor provides the best solution for your business.
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The Challenges of Managing Market Data
The market data needs for the financial services industry is at an all-time high. With constant expansion, it's becoming an increasingly critical component of the business, touching nearly every aspect of it.
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Former Bank Data Execs Santiago, Armando Unveil Data Consultancy
The pair will target financial firms based in South Florida that may not have dedicated market data resources.