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Data - it's the 'how' in asking for what your team needs

It’s difficult to ask for the resources your team needs when you can’t justify why you need them. As an information professional team leader, or team member, you might know that you need to right-size certain subscriptions, purchase new ones or do away with some that are being under-utilized - ultimately saving costs and boosting team efficiency - but it is difficult to justify this to management until you have established the reasons why, and can back them up.

Well I declare! Reporting to market data exchanges & vendors can be hassle-free

Ask market data professionals at any financial firm what keeps them awake at night and declaring their data usage to stock exchanges and other vendors is probably high on the list.

The task is time-consuming and growing in complexity. Getting it wrong can add to managers’ data costs and lead to unwelcome audits.

Webinar Recording: How Ilmarinen benefits from enhanced reference data transparency, control & governance

Together with Amjad Zoghbi, Director at Xpansion and Sami Kekäläinen, System Manager at Ilmarinen — TRG Screen held a Reference Data Usage Management webinar: 'How Ilmarinen benefits from enhanced reference data transparency, control & governance'. 

Cut Bloomberg Data License Usage Costs with Xmon in Autopilot mode

Xmon offers state-of-the-art technology to track data requests and achieve significant cost-savings. Is this something you know your firm would benefit from but you don't have the internal IT resources to implement such technology? Don't Worry! Internal IT resources aren't needed. That's right... internal IT resources are NOT needed!

Juggling online security while streamlining usage workflows

As a result of Covid-19 many businesses have maintained work from home office hours even as things return to a relative normal. Work from home has its advantages but one concerning factor at the top of every IT department’s mind is security. Managing user behaviors within enterprise subscriptions consistently across a firm is a challenging enough task as it is - especially when the number of users accessing those subscriptions is high. With so much remote working this challenge becomes even greater.

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.