Given its ambitions to become an all round data utility provider for the financial services markets, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) acquisition of UK-based counterparty and entity data vendor Avox this week comes as no surprise. DTCC has been gradually positioning itself as a utility provider, rather than your common or garden vendor, over the last year or so (its establishment of its Warehouse Trust subsidiary for the derivatives market is one such example, see recent news here) and the tagline of the newly acquired Avox is further fuel for the fire: “Now an industry owned business entity data utility”.

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