Day Two
Cost control and data administration
Market data costs can be some of the largest items on the budget for financial institutions. This course unit provides a comprehensive breakdown of the costs, their origins and techniques for managing them. Included are examples from real world market data cost management exercises.
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Cost liabilities and components of market data
- Exchange & vendor fee liabilities
- Summary of changing exchange policies
- Vendor packaging options
- Finding the true cost of market data
10.30 Reuters DACS and Bloomberg usage reports
- Interpreting the reports
- What additional information is required?
11.00 The Thomson Reuters new pricing model
- Thomson Reuters objectives
- Data usage models
- Infrastructure models
- Potential user exposure
11.30 Morning Break
11.45 Market data management tools
- What additional information is useful for cost management?
- Vendor comparison tools
- Getting more detail than DACS and Bloomberg usage reports
12.30 Market data and inventory systems
- Example systems and outputs
- Maintain reporting on business unit market data inventories and product
utilisation
13.30 Lunch
14.30 Evaluating strategies for cost control
- Identifying alternate data sources
- Highlighting 2nd tier vendors
- Can direct feeds be used to reduce costs?
- Using delayed, snapshot and end of day data
15.15 Strategies to maintain savings
- User level reporting
- Techniques for getting management support
15.45 Afternoon Break
16.00 Market data control and cost saving case studies
- Examples from investment banks perspective
- Savings realised by negotiation, data replacement and technology
- Examples from the consultant’s perspective
- Case studies
- Managing the consultant!
16.45 Course session workshop
- Delegate review of own market data cost control initiatives
17.00 Exercise: Analysing a medium sized investment bank scenario
- Current usage profile
- Identify opportunities
- Drawing up a strategy
- How to verify alternate vendors
- Recommendations
- Realistic savings analysis
17.30 Questions and close
17.45 End of day two
