3. Which kind of problems are related to data you receive from financial data providers?

Whereas poor data quality and missing standards still remain major problems for financial institutions, it is high costs that have become a more pressing issue in times of the credit crunch: in 2008 only 38% criticized the high costs while it is almost half of the interviewees this year. This indicates that constrained budgets do have an impact on reference data management in 2009. Moreover, enterprises also struggle with bad data coverage and delays in the delivery. Only 15% of all respondents are content with the data they receive from data feeds.

Which regulatory requirements do you consider as driving forces for reference data automation?