Vendor-neutral, one-stop-shop strategy combines market data solutions and consulting support with comprehensive infrastructure and cloud services 15 November 2023 – RESTON, Va. – Transaction Network Services (TNS) today announced the acquisition of West Highland Support Services, a financial market data solutions provider based in Danbury, Connecticut. The acquisition will enable TNS to deliver market data...Read More
Why Are Financial Institutions Struggling to Control Access to External Trading Portals and Platforms? Against the backdrop of the rapid adoption of electronic trading across key cash assets classes that aren’t typically traded on exchanges, financial institutions are struggling to control access to external trading portals and platforms and other markets-related services. This phenomenon is...Read More
The Top 3 Reasons to Embrace Managed Services Based on our research into Financial Service firms reevaluating market data operational support, 3 things that consistently come up as areas that need to be addressed are: Cost Attrition Skilled Staff In this blog we will take a deep look into these and how Managed Services resolve...Read More
West Highland Support Services Wins “Best Specialist Market Data Consutancy” awarded by A-Team Group – TradingTech Insight Awards 2022. For a third year in a row West Highland Support Services wins Best Specialist Market Data Consultancy from A-Team Group TradingTech Insight Awards 2022. These annual awards recognize excellence in trading solutions and services for capital...Read More
West Highland Support Services Wins “Most Innovative Entity Data Hierarchies Approach” awarded by the A-Team Group – A-Team Innovation Awards 2022. We are proud to be the winner of the 2022 A-Team Innovation Awards for the second year running for Most innovative Entity Data Hierarchies approach with our Intelligent Data Platform (IDP). Thanks to all...Read More
Westy Automates Data Notifications! Market data vendors send data notifications to financial firms totaling over 5,000 per year. These notices impact product changes, coverage, and often have financial implications. When data notifications are not serviced firms are at risk of losing service or accumulating additional fees. Firms process these notices with large teams and hundreds...Read More
Meet Westy, our MDS Super Bot! Market data vendors send invoices totaling over $33 billion per year to MDS administrators at some of the most technically advanced financial institutions in the world. However, most of these invoices are processed manually because of the myriad of disconnected systems used in the complex accounts payable process. This...Read More
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Machine Learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionary tools that are dominating the application space and are appearing in many aspects of our lives. Every financial institution stores multiple security master files from a multitude of vendors. Ensuring data quality and making decisions based upon best-in-class data sets, verifying the accuracy, and...Read More
West Highland Support Services Wins “Best Specialist Market Data Consultancy” for a second year in a row awarded by the A-Team Group’s TradingTech Insight Awards – USA 2021. The annual TradingTech Insight Awards – USA recognizes excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focuses on vendors providing exceptional and innovative trading infrastructure,...Read More
WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR CRITICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS? YOU’D BE SURPRISED. Controlling and having full transparency of business users and systems access to books and records of a firm is a central tenant to mitigating company risk, cost, and business continuity. There are two critical processes that market data teams and business CISO’s need to...Read More
