'What goes up must come down', so the saying goes. Seemingly not in the world of financial data. We're continuing to see gravity-defying trends in respect of financial and market data, showing little signs of stopping:

• ever increasing use of data in the financial services
• increasingly innovative and profitable uses of data in financial services
• vendors experimenting with novel pricing and unit of account models
• regulatory investigations into market data cost
• data audits and compliance licensing on the rise
• on-going complexity and contractual interaction between data source and distribution method

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