2025 in the Rearview Mirror + What's in Store for 2026: A Conversation with Leigh Walters
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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.
Global spending on financial market data and news has continued its decade long growth-streak with revenues jumping 6.4% to a record $44.3 billion in 2024 and with Burton-Taylor International Consulting 2025 figures imminent, similar increases in spending are expected.
Although real-time trading and data spending accounted for the largest share of total revenues, strong demand for pricing, referencing and valuation data also drove spending.
Optimize Spend 2.0 offers extensive abilities to empower accurate inventory management for current and future periods, but crucially now also for historical periods.
Navigating this landscape can perilous for some financial services firms – not only due to the increasing complexity and value but also the potential for errors – and many find themselves confronted with a pressing question: How can we effectively optimize our market data costs and consumption?
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