Market Data Management Challenges
The VendEx Market Data Workflow
VPort | VSource | VKey | VReg | VLink | VID

The VendEx Solutions Suite
VendEx Solutions is the definitive centralized hub for the market data industry with a full suite of integrated tools that service both Financial Services Market Data/Vendor Managers and Financial Technology Vendors.
Financial Services Firms
- VPort: Integrated Vendor Management Portal
- Management dashboards for inventory, business line costs, compliance, and calendaring (contract duration, renewals, and auto-renewals)
- VSource: Digital Vendor Services Directory
- Rich sector directories, including ESG, Indexes, Energy, etc.
- Dynamic, digital, flexible, and searchable database
- VReg: Market Data Regulatory Mapping
- Maps vendor services to specific regulatory articles
- Dashboard display of vendor reliance and vendor exposure
- Identify 3rd party risk in meeting discrete regulatory requirements
The VendEx Solutions Hub
- VKey: Mapping and Digitizing Contracts (Financial Services & Vendors)
- Documents mapped to Vendor Agreements
- Manage contract renewals and terminations
- Easily understand data usage rights per agreement
- Quickly assess internal contract compliance and risk
Identifiers
- VendEx Identifier: VID
- Alphanumeric code identifying all vendor services
- Integrates with in-house/third-party systems
- Catalogs, proposals, contracts, invoices
- VendEx Usage Rights Code
- Code identifies data usage rights from exact contracted services
- Enables self-service to immediately understand data usage rights
Vendor Companies
- VLink: Market Data Customer Connection
- Vendor contributed and authenticated data
- Highlight capabilities and use cases
- Mapping to regulatory articles
- Announcements and alerts