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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. 

Checklist: 5 Steps to Secure Vendor Contract Compliance

There is a heavy price to pay for financial institutions that consume market data and other information sources but fail to comply with supplier contracts.

Getting to grips with data usage is a challenging task because there is so little existing infrastructure in place to track the use of information services, causing a real lack of transparency into actual data usage across a firm - leaving firms vulnerable. If you could easily understand access and usage, the benefits could be significant, don't you agree?

A Busy Events Season and TRG Screen's Legal User Groups

Although, like many shows worldwide, most legal events TRG Screen attended this year were virtual, it was a busy events season none the less! And, we held our virtual Legal User Group meeting series as well.

Seek Insights in the Big Picture of Market Data

- Record data spend seen rising further
- Data becoming more complex, more costly
- Data optimization starts with full picture of data landscape

It’s never been more important for firms using market data to keep track of what they spend on this vital information and how they use it.

Yet, for many managers, monitoring the data landscape has never been more of a headache.

Go “Beyond the Core” for Market Data Management Insight

The core tasks of managing market data inventory are well-known but only by looking “beyond the core” do insights that really add value and save time and money reveal themselves.

That was the message delivered by Richard Mundell, Chief Product Officer of market-leading enterprise subscription management company TRG Screen, to the DKF conference.