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Understand Natural User Netting - Save up to 8% on Market Data Spend

Post Covid-19, firms are now looking to shift their focus to more strategic goals. As a direct consequence of the pandemic, there are plans in place to review MiFID II to free up resources and encourage further investment. MiFID II had raised the profile of natural user netting by decreeing that every exchange must now offer some form of natural user netting program, where reasonably possible as of 2018. 

Allianz Global Investors Case Study: The shift from administration to strategic sourcing

Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) is a leading active asset manager with investment professionals in 25 offices worldwide. The Market Data Team is part of Global Procurement, managing 150 vendors and 1,850 contracts covering 1,300 users.

3 Challenges of Market Data Invoicing & Licensing

Information & data managers at financial institutions are being asked to administer an endlessly growing list of information sources, greatly adding to the burden of managing the already-challenging relationships with vendors.

Firms’ appetite for cloud-delivered services and the trend towards working from home are also testing existing data licensing norms. The sheer volume and variety of licensing agreements means firms’ data teams are increasingly stretched.

Seek Insights in the Big Picture of Market Data

- Record data spend seen rising further
- Data becoming more complex, more costly
- Data optimization starts with full picture of data landscape

It’s never been more important for firms using market data to keep track of what they spend on this vital information and how they use it.

Yet, for many managers, monitoring the data landscape has never been more of a headache.

Go “Beyond the Core” for Market Data Management Insight

The core tasks of managing market data inventory are well-known but only by looking “beyond the core” do insights that really add value and save time and money reveal themselves.

That was the message delivered by Richard Mundell, Chief Product Officer of market-leading enterprise subscription management company TRG Screen, to the DKF conference.

Checklist: 5 best practices for Contractual Rights Management

Contractual Rights Management, also know as Digital Rights Management (DRM), has emerged as a hot issue in financial information and market data circles.