Reference data has long been a necessary expense for financial firms, accounting for up to 30% of total market data spend. Yet, it remains one of the least optimized budget areas, often escaping scrutiny until an invoice flags unexpected costs.
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Introducing our industry newsletter with musings, observations and ideas regarding the challenges and opportunities facing market data management leaders.
February 2025
Year-end fireworks have faded, resolutions have been declared. (“This year we’re really going to get a handle on our market data spending!”) As 2025 stretches out before us, there’s no shortage of thought-provoking questions from market data managers and vendor partners trying to help buyers drive down costs and operate more efficiently.
TRG Screen has once again been selected as one of just four vendor representatives on the Financial Information Services Division (FISD) Executive Committee, the leading industry body connecting the global financial information industry.
By Leigh Walters, Chief Executive Officer, TRG Screen
As we close the book on 2024, we saw an industry that’s been working harder than ever to deal with the costs and complexity of managing their market and reference data and finding more ways to take advantage of technologies like generative AI, while navigating many other business challenges.
Helping financial institutions take control of their market data inventory and navigate rising costs is central to our mission. That’s why we’re so honoured to announce that Optimize Spend has been shortlisted for the Best Market Data Inventory Platform in the TradingTech Insight Awards – Europe 2025.
By Amjad Zoghbi, Head of Solutions Engineering at TRG Screen
Walking into the historic Amsterdam Stock Exchange as TRG Screen’s new Head of Solutions Engineering, I was struck by the significance of the moment—not just personally, but for the industry as a whole. The theme of ‘Datafeeds in Focus: Untangling the Spaghetti of In-house Data Distribution’ felt timely and captured the complexity so many firms are wrestling with today.
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