Regulators in the U.S., UK and Europe are looking at market data prices and practices after receiving complaints about costs from investment firms, traders and hedge funds. Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA in London asked the financial service industry for input on market data. We’ve seen more debate in the last two years about market data fees and exchanges putting out statements on transaction fees and market data fees and how it should work. “Nasdaq has trading, clearing, listing, they sell technology, they sell market data, they sell analytics and they sell index metrics.. The Jack Kemp Foundation undertook a study of market data pricing last year.

Source: Forbes December 18, 2020 16:17 UTC