Making a List, Checking it Twice

摘要

With the holidays around the corner, market-data executives are writing letters to Santa. Instead of mailing them to the North Pole, though, these executives voiced their wishes at the World Financial Information Conference in Washington, D.C. During one panel, organized by the Software & Information Industry Association's Financial Information Services Division, market-data customers outlined various initiatives they would like to see the industry address. According to a survey of 30 buy- and sell-side market-data users, there are various factors every vendor product must embody, says R. Tee Williams of Tee Williams Associates based in The Plains, Va.