The global directory of financial information vendors
By: James Essinger & Joseph Rosen.
Contributors: Rosen, Joseph.
Publisher: Business One Irwin
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Homewood, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Finance -- Information services -- Directories.
Description: Securities industry professionals working in interdependent, 24-hour markets will welcome this affordable, complete guide to the world's leading vendors of financial information services and the products they sell. The authors, leading authorities on financial technology, list more than 200 screen-based financial information products, as well as the major services that offer those products, giving you the criteria you need to make an informed decision. The Global Directory of Financial Information Vendors includes information in 15 basic categories, including geographic markets, principal applications, and operating systems; tips to help you avoid purchasing duplicate systems and control the cost of receiving information; guidelines for determining which financial information service best meets your needs; and cross-referenced indexes that allow you to evaluate vendors in specific asset classes. This first-ever comprehensive guide, with valuable coverage of technical issues such as compatible local area networks, operating systems, and hardware, offers an objective survey of a highly complex industry. Traders, brokers, investment managers, information systems managers, and others who use information about financial market prices, will find this guide essential to their decisions about which financial information services and products to use.