Expand (BCG unit)
Data catalog competition heats up as spending cools
Data catalogs represent a big step toward a shopping experience in the style of Amazon.com or iTunes for market data management and procurement. Here, we take a look at the key players in this space, old and new.
Six banks team with Expand Research to create data vendor catalog
The initiative aims to help firms better manage the data they already use and to identify and compare alternatives available in the market.
Ex-Expand Exec Watson Joins Appsbroker
Before running data consumer forums and benchmarking activities at Expand Research, Watson also worked at Thomson Financial and Market News International.
Cutbacks and Opportunities: The Market Data Job Market
In spite—or because—of the rising cost and complexity of data, cost-cutting and streamlining initiatives continue at financial institutions. Kirsten Hyde looks at how these efforts are affecting the headcount and structure of market data departments, and what impact an increasingly automated and regulation-focused environment is having on hiring initiatives among the vendor community.
Study Recommends Open Standard For Taxonomies
London-based companies eTrading Software and Expand, working with broker-dealers, concluded that FIBO and ISMAG fixed-income data efforts would coordinate better with an open standard