At A-Team’s recent Data Management for Risk, Analytics & Valuations data conference, an informal poll of delegates suggested that only two types of internal data project would get senior management attention in 2012: those responding to regulatory requirements, and those that reduce data costs. With market data often described as the No. 1 cost for financial institutions after personnel, data costs are under more scrutiny than ever. A-Team Insight asked Oliver Muhr, senior vice president of SunGard’s MarketMap financial market data solution, what firms can do to control the cost of financial information.

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