FRANKENDATASTEIN LIVES: LSE/REFINITIV MERGER TAKES FIRST STEPS

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THE BILLION DOLLAR MARKET DATA AUCTION: NEXT UNDER THE HAMMER

PANDORA'S BOX A leading market data industry M&A…


CHINA MARKET DATA industry & revenues REVIEW 2020

Market Summary The estimated size of China’s leading…


MARKET DATA DINOSAURS, WAITING FOR THE METEOR TO HIT

Apocalypse Rising? The metaphors and allegories used in…


THE INVISIBLE MARKET DATA REVOLUTION The New Age of Data

When Chou En-Lai was asked “What were the historical…


TRAPPED IN MARKET DATA’S HOTEL CALIFORNIAS 1 Monopolies In Plain Sight

All Checked In, Can’t Check Out (and many, many, many,…


TRAPPED IN MARKET DATA’S HOTEL CALIFORNIAS 2 Locked Up By Contract

All Checked In & Can’t Check Out Many existing…


Interdealer brokers, financial markets’ bad boys: what is their future?

The IDBs are at a crossroads, greater regulation of OTC…


HKEX’s INDECENT PROPOSAL & LSE THE PROM QUEEN EXCHANGE

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THE WILD BUNCH RIDE AGAIN Inter-Dealer Brokers Market Data Business 2020

Squeezed:  Inter-Dealer Brokers Business in Review…


Indistinguishable From Magic: How Exchanges Make Money From Data

Given exchange data is currently topical with the…


WHY PAY FOR DATA?

Paying for data is a contentious issue, and in this brief…


THE BUSINESS OF INDICES, aka, The Stockholm Syndrome in Action

Benchmarks Are Brands Financial Benchmarks including…


DATA: EXCHANGES MONEY MACHINE REVIEW 2019

Exchange's revenues from data have been brought sharply…