Never Miss a Critical Data Notification Again with DNM 4.0 The West Highland Data Notification Manager is the financial industry’s ONLY solution that intelligently automates the management and distribution of system and data feed change notifications. It not only mitigates financial risk but also integrates seamlessly with client ticket systems and offers API access for...Read More

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

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

As firms engage in initiatives to drive down cost across all business units, senior management is once again targeting additional savings in infrastructure reductions. This directive has pushed many firms to reduce their infrastructure based on “benchmarking and monitoring” using rudimentary and inappropriately configured monitoring tools. Problem Statement Most monitoring utilities only have the ability...Read More

There is no doubt that financial service companies succeed or fail based on their ability to understand, analyze and react to data. Massive amounts of money are spent creating and managing data delivery infrastructures and fierce competition exists between firms trying to hire the top quantitative analysts. This year’s academy award nominated film, “The Big...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