Bloomberg is targeting exchanges, data providers and custodians with an online utility and mapping tools that help to identify, map and request instruments that conform to the vendor’s global, open standard for identifying financial instruments, the Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) Bloomberg recently launched OpenFIGI.com and the OpenFIGI API (application programming interface) to further the… Read More >>
Market Data Vendor Management 101
Regulatory reform, competitive pressures and the need to optimize data across the enterprise are pushing custodians, service providers, consultants and securities firms to constantly refine their reference data management strategies. As their strategies evolve, all players in the operations matrix will have to hone their relationships with their market data vendors, which should be collaborative… Read More >>