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2011
 

December 10, 2011

The Economist

Thomson Reuters - Screen Test

 

The information company, in danger of losing its top spot, gets a new boss

IN SEVEN years as head of Reuters, Tom Glocer brought the British-based news agency from the verge of bankruptcy to a state of rude health.  But he has done less well as chief executive of Thomson Reuters, the company created when Thomson, a Canadian purveyor of professional information for lawyers, accountants and others, bought Reuters in 2008.  Full Story

 

December 7, 2011

The Guardian

Thomson Reuters merger hasn't lived up to expectations

 

Creation of financial information Goliath turned into sorry tale of upheaval, clashes and disappointments

Thomson Corporation's acquisition of Reuters in 2008 was billed as the deal that would blow rivals like Bloomberg out of the water. Instead, like so many mergers and acquisitions, the tie-up that created Thomson Reuters hasn't lived up to the expectations of either consumers or shareholders.  Full Story

 

December 2, 20111

The Wall Street Journal

Thomson Reuters Replaces Its CEO-UPDATE

 

Thomson Reuters Corp., which has been losing ground in its key business of financial data, is replacing Thomas Glocer as chief executive.

Thomson Reuters named-chief operating officer James Smith to succeed Mr. Glocer, only weeks after Mr. Smith became COO. Until late September Mr. Smith had been chief executive of the Professional division.  Full Story

 

December 2, 2011

The Financial Times

Thomson Reuters to ‘confront reality’

 

Tom Glocer’s accelerated departure as chief executive of Thomson Reuters marks “the beginning of the end of a turbulent period of executive change” for the information group, Jim Smith, his successor, has told staff.  Full Story

 

December 2, 2011

The Wall Street Journal

Thomson Reuters Replaces Its CEO

 

Thomson Reuters Corp., which has been losing ground in its key business of financial data, is replacing Thomas Glocer as chief executive.

Thomson Reuters named-chief operating officer James Smith to succeed Mr. Glocer, only weeks after Mr. Smith became COO. Until late September Mr. Smith had been chief executive of the Professional division.  Full Story

 

December 1, 2011

The New York Times - Decoder

Glocer, Chief Executive of Thomson Reuters, Is Being Replaced

 

Thomson Reuters said Thursday that it was replacing its chief executive, Thomas H. Glocer, who had struggled to turn around the financial news and information service in an increasingly competitive market.

James C. Smith, Thomson Reuters’s chief operating officer, will replace Mr. Glocer beginning Jan. 1.  Full Story

 

November 14, 2011

The Wall Street Journal

Financial-Data Suppliers Brace for Wall Street Cuts

 

Bloomberg LP's battle with Thomson Reuters Corp. is about to get bloodier.
A new wave of retrenchment on Wall Street is clouding the prospects for the two rivals, which dominate the market to supply traders, portfolio managers and other financial professionals with data, analytical tools and news. It is also testing the steps those companies took to diversify in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.  Full Story

 

November 10, 2011

Press Release

Burton-Taylor Report Estimates Mainland China Market Data Spend Has Topped USD740 million, Local Vendors Command 76% Share

Combined data from Burton-Taylor and Robert Agnew of Marlin & Associates estimates China financial information/analysis demand to have grown at 42.1% CAGR since 2003, domestic vendors increasing relative share

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading information and news industry market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today published a report estimating mainland China financial market data/analysis spend will reach USD745.4 million by the end of 2011.  Full Story

 

November 5, 2011

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Domestic Players Drive China Data Growth

 

Financial services firms in China have doubled their market data spend over the past two years, driven by growth among domestic vendors and the continuing maturity of China’s financial industry, according to a new report from Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC and Robert Agnew of Marlin & Associates.

Full Story

 

October 17, 2011

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Cost, Compliance, Collaboration Drive WFIC Debate

 

Cost containment remains a top concern across the market data industry, leaving market participants grappling with the challenges of budgetary constraints in the face of changing regulation, new technologies and competitive pressures, according to panelists representing end-user firms, exchanges and vendors at industry association FISD’s World Financial Information Conference in San Francisco last week.  Full Story

 

August 26, 2011

The Wall Street Journal

Bloomberg to Snap Up BNA

 

$990 Million Deal Furthers Publisher's Push Into Legal Research Business.
Bloomberg LP agreed to acquire legal-research firm BNA in a deal valued at about $990 million, a bold move in the financial information company's evolving efforts to diversify its business.  Full Story

 

August 25, 2011

Crain's New York Business

Bloomberg LP buys BNA for $990M

 

The business news company is acquiring the legal information provider to expand its legal research division and add deeper coverage of regulatory issues.

In a move to strengthen its legal research division and expand coverage of regulatory issues, Bloomberg LP will buy legal information provider Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., known as BNA, for $990 million.  The two companies announced the deal on Thursday.  Full Story

 

July 26, 2011

The Financial Times

Thomsons Grow Restless Over Reuters Venture

 

The family behind Thomson Reuters is pushing for faster results from the three-year-old merger of Thomson Corporation and Reuters, which initially exceeded promises of integration benefits, but has struggled to introduce a central new product in its markets division.

 

People close to the board say the Thomson family, which still controls about 55 per cent of the financial and professional information group through its holding company, Woodbridge, is growing impatient with the pace of change after a year in which shares have fallen by 10 per cent.  Full Story

 

July 23, 2011

The Wall Street Journal

Thomson Reuters Loses More Executives

 

Thomson Reuters Corp. shed more executives amid the continued fallout of a shake-up at one of the financial-data company's key divisions.
The company said Friday that five executives are leaving, including Chris Ahearn, the top business executive for its news operations.  Full Story

 

May 23, 2011

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Survey: Risk, Commodities, Emerging Markets to Drive Data Spend

 

Data to support risk management and commodities and energy trading will be the highest-growth areas of data spend during 2011 and 2012, with users in China, India and the rest of Asia - excluding Japan - leading demand, according to the results of a survey of market data demand conducted by Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

March 13, 2011

Crain's New York Business

There's no stopping this jobs generator

 

NYC's fastest-growing employer is none other than Bloomberg LP, up 3,400 jobs since "08.

Though the subject may never come up in City Hall discussions about job cuts, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has created an employment program for New York that has worked like a charm. He just can't take credit for it while he's in office.  Full Story

 

February 11, 2011

The Nation.

How Bloomberg Does Business

 

How Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bloomberg LP helped fix the NBC-Comcast merger — winning terms that were especially favorable to the expansion of Bloomberg's media empire.

Last July, a group called the Coalition for Competition in Media wrote a letter to two key House subcommittee chairs on Capitol Hill, pleading for help in stopping the then-pending $30 billion megamerger of Comcast and NBC Universal.  Full Story

 

January 24, 2011

Dow Jones Financial News Online

Managers see value of information

 

If a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, then it’s probably not a label that can fairly be attached to asset managers. They know the value of information and – increasingly – are willing to pay the price.

In the wake of the economic crisis, financial service firms had cut their consumption of market data and analysis, but a recent study conducted by information consultancy firm Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC showed the trend has since reversed.  Full Story

 

January 18, 2011

The Wall Street Journal

Dow Jones to launch forex info service

 

Dow Jones is close to launching a foreign exchange information service which will represent the latest attempt since News Corp’s 2007 takeover to rethink the company’s business-to-business side and make it work more closely with the group’s consumer-focused flagship, the Wall Street Journal.

The news wire owner, which will launch DJ FX Trader at the end of January, hopes to capitalise on rising foreign exchange trading volumes with “a high premium product” for which it will charge traders “six figures” for each licence.  Full Story

 

January 19, 2011

Associated Press

Dow Jones to launch currency news service

 

News Corp. subsidiary Dow Jones & Co., which publishes The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and MarketWatch, said Tuesday it will launch a new real-time information service targeted toward foreign exchange traders in the coming months.

 

DJ FX Trader will provide news, data and analysis to better direct users’ market and currency trading strategies.  Full Story

 

January 18, 2011

The Financial Times

Dow Jones & Co. will launch a real-time information service targeting the burgeoning foreign-exchange market in coming months, the company said.

DJ FX Trader, combining news from Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal with technology from the company's Financial Markets business, will offer "exclusive news, analysis and real-time opportunities to help customers better direct their market and currency trading strategies," Dow Jones said in a news release.  Full Story

 

January 11, 2011

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Burton-Taylor: Annual Data Growth to Beat Expectations

 

Spend on market data products and services is set to rebound for 2010 overall, signaling the start of strategic spending on new initiatives, which had previously been curbed by the economic downturn, according to research from Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

January 10, 2011

Press Release

Burton-Taylor Report Shows 2010 Market Data Spend Up 4.23%, Asia Still Fastest Growing, Bloomberg Tops 300,000 Terminals

Burton-Taylor data indicates FactSet & Thomson Reuters held market share lead with Research Analysts; Investment Bankers & Portfolio Managers were biggest spenders; Portfolio Analytics products were fastest growing in 2010

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a recognized leader in information industry market research, strategy and business consulting, on January 11, 2011 will release a report indicating the 2010 global spend for market data and analysis was up 4.23% versus 2009, to reach US$23.73 billion.  Full Story

 
2010
 

December 15, 2010

Press Release

Burton-Taylor Report Shows 2010 Market Data/Analysis Spend Up 4.23% Globally, Asia Still Fastest Growing

 

Burton-Taylor data indicates Commodities & Energy and Investment Banking segments show highest growth rates, with market share gains for Bloomberg, IDC, IRESS, Morningstar, others

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a recognized leader in information industry market research, strategy and business consulting, today released data projecting the 2010 global spend for market data and analysis as up 4.23% versus 2009. Burton-Taylor data shows the industry exited 2009 at US$22.72 billion and is projected to exit 2010 at US$23.73 billion.  Full Story

 

December 13, 2010

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Burton-Taylor: Annual Data Growth to Beat Expectations

 

Spend on market data products and services is set to rebound for 2010 overall, signaling the start of strategic spending on new initiatives, which had previously been curbed by the economic downturn, according to research from Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

September 24, 2010

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Opening Cross: The Facts of Life: Consolidation and Contractions

 

There comes that awkward moment in everyone's life when an inquisitive young mind asks "Where do data vendors come from?"  And, the answer is often "From other data vendors who love each other very much and did a merger," - like when you had to tell the same inquisitive mind that Dow Jones and Telerate "don't love each other anymore," or that Bridge "got sent to a nice farm upstate."  Full Story

 

September 13, 2010

Reuters

Thomson Reuters to launch next generation desktop

 

Thomson Reuters Corp will roll out on Tuesday its next-generation desktop product for financial professionals, incorporating Twitter-like social media features that it hopes will help it win customers from Bloomberg LP


Thomson Reuters Eikon will knit together dozens of disparate products that provide data, news, analytics and trading tools, as well as social media applications familiar to users of Twitter, instant messaging and Facebook.  Full Story

 

August 10, 2010

St. Petersburg Times - Russia

Bloomberg БРАКИ СБОРЫ ПО НАЛОГУ НА ПРИБЫЛЬ

 

МОСКВА: Власти Москвы налог агентством Bloomberg News, 120 млн. рублей ($ 4 млн.) налога на прибыль в 2006 году до 2007 года, но компания отказалась платить, заявив, что не имеет регулярного представительство в стране.  Full Story

 

May 10, 2010

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Survey: Valuation, Risk, Regulation to Drive Data Spend

 

Risk management and emerging markets will account for the highest growth in market data spend over this year and next, with valuation tools accounting for the highest single area of expenditure, according to the results of a survey of market data demand conducted by Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

May 5, 2010

Bloomberg auf allen Kanälen

 

Mit seinen Datenterminals hat sich Bloomberg in der Finanzbranche unentbehrlich gemacht. Damit das so bleibt, dringt der Dienstleister immer tiefer in die Medienbranche vor - und zeigt den Rivalen, wie man Informationen profitabel vermarkten kann. 

Wer dieser Tage am Kiosk nach der neuesten Ausgabe der "Businessweek" greift, stutzt zunächst. Das Format des US-Wirtschaftsmagazins ist das gleiche wie früher, ansonsten sieht das Heft völlig anders aus. Im Innern mehr Seiten, kleinere Schriften und neue Rubriken. Auf dem Titel viel Weiß, eine veränderte Seitengeometrie - und groß der neue Name: "Bloomberg Businessweek".  Full Story

 

April 19, 2010

Dow Jones Financial News Online

Bloomberg Goes Head to Head with Reuters in Global Debt Markets

 

Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, two of the largest news organisations, differ significantly in their coverage of global debt markets, with Bloomberg offering a more focused service, according to a recent study.

Research published last week, by US-based advisory firm Burton-Taylor International Consulting, found that Bloomberg offered “a generally more tightly focused volume of fixed-income content across a wider number of fixed-income instruments”.  Full Story

 

April 12, 2010

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Report Compares Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters FI News

 

A comparative analysis of fixed income news coverage from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters conducted by Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC reveals that while the two vendors deliver roughly the same number of fixed income news items per day, they differ in focus by region and asset class coverage.  Full Story

 

April 12, 2010

Press Release

Burton-Taylor Report Declares “Winner” Between Bloomberg and Reuters Fixed Income News Services

 

Burton-Taylor study reveals significant differences in regional output, focus and fixed income instrument coverage between the financial news giants

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today announced the publication of the first ever detailed comparison and analysis of English language fixed income news from Bloomberg and Reuters.  Full Story

 

February 25, 2010

Les Echos

Le secteur de l'information financière en pleine mutation

 

Le marché de l'information financière est animé par de nombreux mouvements et rumeurs de concentration.  Les revenus globaux devraient légèrement reculer cette année.

Le secteur de l'information financière fait l'objet de mouvements quasi permanents.  Au-delà de la gigantesque fusion réalisée en 2008 entre le canadien Thomson et le britannique Reuters, cette industrie est agitée de rumeurs et d'opérations de plus petite taille.  Full Story

 

February 2, 2010

Gulf Coast Business Review

China Grows Financial Data

 

Osprey-based Burton-Taylor International Consulting sees a lot of room for financial-data firms to make money in China, and it plans to be among them. 

The Gulf Coast business-consulting firm recently published a full data analysis of the mainland’s market and market share, which showed that Chinese portfolio managers and researchers spend far less than the global average but that spending has been growing at nearly 30% annually the past six years.  Full Story

 

January 29, 2010

Dow Jones Financial News Online

China Spend On Data Surges

 

Chinese asset managers have increased their data spend by 30% over the past six years, making an outlay of $340 million (€243 million) last year, indicative of the continuing growth in the country's financial sector. 

The increased demand for market information by mainland China's investment community has been met, to a large extent, by local firms, according to a report released yesterday by research firm Burton-Taylor International Consulting Full Story

 

January 27, 2010

Press Release

Burton-Taylor Report Reveals Mainland China Market Data/Analysis Spend Tops USD340 million, Local Vendors Command 60% Share, Portfolio Managers and Researchers Asking for More


Burton-Taylor data shows China financial information/analysis demand has grown at 29.5% CAGR since 2003, international content needs are expanding while overall satisfaction levels are dropping

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading information and news industry market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today published a report showing mainland China financial market data/analysis spend to have topped USD340 million, exit 2009.  What has historically been an opaque market, has now been revealed to have averaged 29.5% annual growth over the last six years.  Full Story

 

January 25, 2010

Inside Market Data - Special Report

China Data Needs Grow as Market Matures

 

The financial industry will spend $22.7 billion worldwide on market data and related services this year, a decline of 1.5 percent from $23 billion in 2008, primarily as a result of budget and staff cuts at end-user firms that have led to reductions in data terminals, according to research released this week by Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

  
2009
 

December 8, 2009

The Economic Times - India

Thomson Reuters to Strengthen Presence in Asia

 

MUMBAI: Thomson Reuters, the world’s largest financial data and news provider, is moving more jobs to India and other Asian nations as the developed nations are still emerging from the worst recession after the credit crisis, said a senior company executive. “We are moving more international jobs to the region,” Thomas Glocer, CEO of Thomson Reuters said in an interview.  Full Story

 

December 3, 2009

Wall Street & Technology

Market Data Spending Dipped Slightly in 2009

 

Burton-Taylor projects modest 1.46% drop in market data spending; Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters share 61% of the market, but FactSet has had the fastest growth in market share. 

As the year draws to a close, Burton-Taylor International Consulting projects the 2009 global spend for financial market data and analysis will be down 1.46% versus 2008. The Burton-Taylor analysis estimates the industry will exit 2009 at $22.68 billion after closing 2008 at $23.01 billion.  Full Story

 

December 2, 2009

Press Release

Burton-Taylor Report Shows 2009 Market Data/Analysis Spend Up In Asia, Bloomberg Tops Thomson Reuters In Americas

 

Burton-Taylor data indicates Investment Management, Commodities & Energy and Investment Banking segment growth, with market share gains for Bloomberg, FactSet, others

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today published a report projecting the 2009 global spend for financial market data and analysis as down 1.46% versus 2008.  The Burton-Taylor analysis estimates the industry will exit 2009 at US$22.68 billion after closing 2008 at US$23.01 billion.  Full Story

 

November 30, 2009

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Report: Bloomberg Gains as Spend Falls

 

The financial industry will spend $22.7 billion worldwide on market data and related services this year, a decline of 1.5 percent from $23 billion in 2008, primarily as a result of budget and staff cuts at end-user firms that have led to reductions in data terminals, according to research released this week by Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

November 14, 2009

Twin Cities Business

Thomson Reuters' Brain

 

 

The Eagan business that was once West Publishing now supplies its parent company with the intellectual firepower to outmaneuver Bloomberg and LexisNexis. 

There may be no more concise way to sum up the changed nature or ambitions of the former West Publishing Company than what Roger Martin says: “We are sort of the next generation of Google—without the garbage—for professionals.”  Full Story

 

October 4, 2009

Crain's New York Business

Bloomberg Aims to Lasso BizWeek

 

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a name familiar to millions of consumers.  Bloomberg LP, the financial news and information company he founded nearly 30 years ago, is not.

That may be about to change.  Full Story

   

June 29, 2009

Inside Market Data

Survey: Piracy Costs Data Industry $8b

 

The financial information and analysis industry is losing an estimated $8 billion of subscription revenue each year as a result of subscribers sharing login information and content "scraping," according to a survey conducted by Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

May 19, 2009

Press Release

AdmitOne Security to Collaborate with the Financial Information Services Division (FISD) to Solve $8 Billion Anti-Piracy Problem

 

AdmitOne‘s Cross-industry Piracy Metrics and Remediation Techniques to Help Financial Industry Leaders Prevent Fraud and Capture Lost Revenue.

AdmitOne Security, the leading innovator of identity assurance and analytics solutions, today announced its participation in the Anti-Piracy Working Group of the Financial Information Services Division (FISD) of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).”  Full Story

 

May 10, 2009

New York Post

Get Me Rewrite

 

Wall Street 2.0 Tests Bloomberg

Bloomberg LP, which for two decades combined a booming Wall Street economy, weak competition and a quality product to create an ever-growing, money-making machine, is experiencing one of its toughest stretches ever.  Full Story

 

April 30, 2009

Press Release

Burton-Taylor Publishes First Ever Analysis of Bloomberg News v Reuters News

 

B-T study reveals significant differences in output, focus and approach between the financial news giants

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today announced the publication of the first ever detailed comparison and analysis of English language international financial news from Bloomberg and Reuters Full Story

 

April 27, 2009

Inside Market Data

Research Compares Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters News

 

A comparative study of news services from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters shows that Bloomberg generally produces a higher volume of news items, while Thomson Reuters generally focuses more on analysis, according to research released this week by Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

February 24, 2009

AFP - Agence France-Presse

Thomson Reuters compte croître encore en 2009

 

Le groupe anglo-canadien d'information financière et professionnelle Thomson Reuters a dit mardi tabler sur une nouvelle croissance de son chiffre d'affaires en 2009, après avoir vu son activité et ses bénéfices augmenter en 2008 malgré la crise.  Full Story

 

February 23, 2009

Dow Jones Financial News Online

Data vendors risk losing momentum

 

Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg face slowdown in growth

On the face of it, this year may look like a grim one for the firms that supply the world’s banks with financial data but the outlook may not be as bad as it seems, at least for those companies that have diversified their businesses.  Full Story

 

February 19, 2009

Dow Jones Newswires

Interactive Data 4Q EPS 42c

 

Interactive Data Corp.'s (IDC) fourth-quarter net income grew 26% on sales gains bolstered by acquisitions, as the company projected strong 2009 growth.

Global spending by the securities industry on data, largely through leasing desktop terminals, is forecast to shrink by about 3% according to a report published this week by data specialist Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

February 17, 2009

Press Release

Burton-Taylor Data Indicates Challenging Year for Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg and Financial Information/Analysis Market

 

B-T quantifies financial information and analysis spend at US$23 billion in 2008; Asia and Europe showed growth while the US contracted. Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg hold 58% market share, but FactSet, Interactive Data Corp and SIX Telekurs show strongest growth

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading financial news and market data research, strategy and business consulting organization, today released data showing the market shares of industry leaders Thomson Reuters (TRI) and Bloomberg to have increased slightly in 2008 to 34% and 24% respectively.  Full Story

 

February 16, 2009

The Wall Street Journal

Financial News: Financial-data providers face a 2009 revenue dip

 

Providers of financial information are facing a significant drop in revenue as the financial crisis punishes their clients.

Global spending by the securities industry on data, largely through leasing desktop terminals, is forecast to shrink by about 3%, or $700 million this year, according to a report to be published this week by data specialists Burton-Taylor International Consulting Full Story

 

February 16, 2009

Dow Jones Financial News Online

Credit crisis takes $500m bite out of Bloomberg and Reuters

 

The world’s largest financial information providers, Bloomberg, founded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, could take a hit of more than $500m (€388m) on their revenues this year as the financial crisis punishes their clients.  Full Story

 

February 16, 2009

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Data Industry Seeks Third Player for New ‘Big Three’

 

FactSet Research Systems, Interactive Data Corporation and SIX Telekurs saw the fastest growth among major data providers in 2008 as the market seeks a third competitor to break up the duopoly of Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg, which both saw slight growth in market share, according to new research from Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

February 15, 2009

The Wall Street Journal

Financial News: Bloomberg, Reuters hit by credit crisis

 

The world’s largest financial information providers, Bloomberg founded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, could take a hit of more than $500m (€388m) on their revenues this year as the financial crisis punishes their clients.  Full Story

 
 
2008
 

December 8, 2008

Inside Market Data

'08 Data Spend Flat, Driven by Asia, EMEA

 

Firms worldwide will spend $23 billion on financial data in 2008-the same as in 2007-with a drop in outlay in the Americas but an increase in EMEA and Asia, according to research released by Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

December 4, 2008

Dow Jones Financial News Online

Data giants face shrinking bank revenues

 

The financial data business faces an unfavorable outlook in the next two years following a stagnation in growth this year, leaving the door open to new companies to challenge the duopoly of Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg, according to new research.  Full Story

 

November 3, 2008

Press Release

Burton-Taylor Data Shows 2008 Financial Information and Analysis Spend Drops In US, Grows In Europe and Asia

 

B-T measures contraction of Investment Banking needs, expansion of FX and Corporate needs, as well as market share changes of key global competitor

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today released data projecting the 2008 global spend for financial information and analysis as flat versus 2007.  Full Story

 

September 16, 2008

Press Release

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Expands Corporate Headquarters

 

Growing client list, which includes PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dow Jones, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and FT Ventures, spurs quadrupling of space

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today announced the move of its headquarters to significantly larger offices in Osprey, Florida.  Full Story

 

June 23, 2008

The New York Times

The New Fight for Financial News

 

For years, The Thomson Corporation was the information giant that rarely talked about its own business.  But since its acquisition of Reuters, which closed this year, that reticence has softened. Thomas H. Glocer, the head of the combined company, is very candid about where he is aiming next Full Story

 

February 29, 2008

Gerson Lehrman Group Councils - Analysis View

New Thomson-Reuters Combination Will Command 32% Share of US$23 Billion Market

 

Implications

The Thomson-Reuters merger approval reduces “the Big 3” financial information players to “the Big 2”. Not only does it dramatically change the market share of the dominant players but it also limits competition and vendor choice for the users of information…at least until a new vendor steps-up to create “the new Big 3".  Full Story

 

February 11, 2008

Inside Market Data - Special Report

Fixed Income, FX Drive 2007 Data Spend

 

Global spend on financial data could reach $24.3 billion in 2008, driven by demand from sales and trading operations, up from $23 billion last year, according to research released last week from Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC Full Story

 

February 5, 2008

Press Release

Burton-Taylor Data Shows Financial Information and Analysis Spend Topped US$23 Billion in 2007

 

Burton-Taylor quantifies financial information/analysis spend across key industry segments, as well as market share of key competitors around the world

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today released data showing the global spend for financial information and analysis topped US$23 billion in 2007, with roughly half coming from the Americas and almost 30% occurring in the Fixed Income/Foreign Exchange (FX) Sales & Trading segment.  Full Story

 

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December 10, 2011

The Economist

Thomson Reuters - Screen Test

The information company, in danger of losing its top spot, gets a new boss

IN SEVEN years as head of Reuters, Tom Glocer brought the British-based news agency from the verge of bankruptcy to a state of rude health.  But he has done less well as chief executive of Thomson Reuters, the company created when Thomson, a Canadian purveyor of professional information for lawyers, accountants and others, bought Reuters in 2008.  Full Story

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November 10, 2011

China Financial Market Data/Analysis Market Share 2012 - Key Competitors

 

 

Combined data from Burton-Taylor and Robert Agnew of Marlin & Associates estimates China domestic vendors increasing relative share
 

Burton-Taylor International Consulting LLC, a leading information and news industry market research, strategy and business consulting organization, today published a report estimating mainland China financial market data/analysis spend will reach USD745.4 million by the end of 2011.

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