Our program on April 21 highlighted thought leadership and member insights from prominent members and industry experts. You can view the entire program and agenda here.
Panel: How Standardized Data Documentation Helps Data to Flow
The experts within FISD’s Alternative Data Council recently created and published the Data Descriptions Guidelines, a standardized approach to data documentation. These guidelines help data vendors apply standard approaches to describe their data, provide technical details to help engineers efficiently access the data, and to save researchers time by providing starter code and data validation tests. It is intended as a single place to define a vendor’s business.
This panel will discuss how industry coalescence around standardized data documentation can provide benefits to different sectors of the alt data ecosystem:
*Vendors: Better communication to your customers and potential customers
*Market places/data brokers: Easier to find and evaluate data sources
*Data engineering teams: Faster to ingest data to make it consumable
*Investment Analysts / Data Scientists: Quickly extract insights from the data
Singing in Tune: Can ESG Data Be (Easily) Aggregated – and Monitored?
Join us for a panel followed by a 30 minute Q&A on how market data vendors and exchanges are developing data sets and portals to address the Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) disclosure process. Uniformity will be critical for international investors and financial institutions to manage data and disclosures across multiple markets and asset classes to aggregate and analyze ESG risk.
- What are exchanges and market data vendors doing to address needs for objective ESG data?
- Will there be ESG-specific investment products?
- Are there transparent methodologies for ESG data measurement today?
- Are there any discussions about procedures to monitor sustainability data and to detect “greenwashing”?
- Will ESG information providers quantify risk to facilitate convenient aggregation of ESG variables and real-world impact?
- What distribution and technology platforms are vendors and exchanges using for ESG data?
FISD London Tech Forum – March 3 – In-Person
Our program highlighted thought leadership and member insights from prominent members and industry experts, including “CJC hands-on with multicast in the cloud”, “Yes, we have Market Data in The Cloud–but what about REAL TIME?”, “Market Data in the Cloud, who wants what, where?”, “Data Distribution for the MultiCloud Generation” and “Women in Market Data Engineering.”
FISD Webinar: New frontiers for Market Data…beyond the Status quo – and why you should care
Some amongst us have said it can feel like we in market data are stuck in a rut – but consider how our industry has changed:
New types of data; new types of users; new asset classes; new ways of using data; new technology – and let’s not forget new people in our sector. We should assess how are market data lives have changed and will change further in the imminent months and years to come. Alternative Data was once very new (and shiny!), it’s still fresh in our minds. Crypto, DLT, DeFi, and Digitized Assets are hurtling towards us. Interest in Fintech and technology in general continues apace. Our industry landscape and those participating are changing in front of our eyes.
When written down it becomes clear how much has changed, we are NOT stuck in a rut. The point of this discussion is in part to identify and better understand the key changes – but as importantly it is to explore the consequences of that change AND for us all to consider how best to adapt. As the Greek Philosopher Heraclitus stated – “change is the only constant in life”.
