ABOUT
Watchdog Data Services
We created Watchdog Data Services to provide targeted executive level advice to data consumers, suppliers or those exploring a strategic transaction, involving market and reference data. Watchdog Data Services unparalleled experience across the broad spectrum of investment data and enabling FinTech, helps our clients navigate the expanding and complicated world of data licensing management.
At our core:
Network
We maintain strong executive level relationships with more than 200 data distributors from the largest global market and reference data and FinTech providers to niche ESG and alternative data start-ups.
Experiance
Built on over 40 years of investment and data licensing experience, we developed a proprietary 12-point licensing checklist in consultation with the top 10 data vendors to assist market data managers and procurement teams quickly mitigate present data licensing challenges using our logical framework.
Partnerships
We have created key relationships with a broad network of consultancies and enabling technology providers to compliment or expertise. This approach allows us to more efficiently help our clients with their data licensing management, reg-tech, data digitization, governance and managed services challenges.
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Research
We spend over 30% of our time researching all aspects of the ever changing market data and related FinTech landscape including evolving technologies like AI and Cloud. This also includes tracking the dynamic changing needs of global investment managers, asset owners, consultants, and wealth managers.
Reliability
We listen to our global clients and strive to deliver accurate, easy to understand and high quality on-time results with flexible financial terms that fit our client's particular needs and budgets.