A Client’s Challenge West Highland’s client, a global financial institution, faced a significant challenge with their Bloomberg Terminal users. With upwards of 2500 Bloomberg Terminals, they had no visibility into data notifications impacting their users’ terminals and desktop applications, such as Excel or BB desktop API. This lack of insight led to business risks, as...Read More

Modernization of Order Routing and Execution Services With the liquidity shift to the Buy-Side, increased volumes, volatility, and ever more complex client orders, Buy-Side firms need to modernize their order routing and execution services, and upgrade to a high-performance, best in class cloud-based order routing, data, and execution platform. Competitive DIS-Advantage-Due to Older Order Routing...Read More

In the Covid-19 world Market Data team workloads have increased exponentially.  Teams being under BAU pressure, working remotely, and split across locations have additional challenges. Contract Renewals and Roll Overs are often overlooked or pushed down the priority queue as business users constantly demand new data sets, alternative data, and wider data distribution. Opportunity to...Read More

It has long been recognized that managed services provide benefits beyond cost reduction.   Although commercial savings can reach upwards of 60% against existing cost of in-house models, the pandemic has shined a light on several equally important benefits that are provided by outsourcing. Managed services have been immune to risk that localized proximity models have. ...Read More

One wrong move can have significant impact! Data Notification and Usage Management for Refinitiv DataScope Introduction: Financial Services firms use Refinitiv DataScope to deliver reference data, corporate actions and pricing data to drive business applications. These applications provide significant value when pricing mutual funds, risk positions and portfolio management. As there are changes to the...Read More

So you want to reduce your overall market data spend… tired of paying exorbitant fees?  You are not alone.  There has been a large demand from virtually all clients on both the buy-side and the sell-side to reduce overall spend on market data.  This trend has been cyclical over the years but is currently front and center...Read More