Market data compliance · for compliance, procurement & market data teams
Vendor contract compliance
you can prove.
Contract compliance for market data means showing that your real use of each vendor feed matches what you are entitled to — the right users, applications, sites, and redistribution rights. Marketdata.ai keeps entitlements, usage, and cost on one record with an audit-ready history, so you prove it from the record instead of rebuilding it the week an auditor asks.
What it covers
Market data compliance, held on the record
Vendor contract compliance falls apart in the gaps between the contract, the invoice, and who is actually logged in. Marketdata.ai keeps those in one place.
Entitlement tracking
Hold what every contract entitles you to — users, applications, sites, redistribution rights — next to the cost, so entitlements are a fact on the record, not a memory of last year's negotiation.
Usage-rights monitoring
Reconcile who is actually using each feed against what the licence permits, so over-use and unused entitlements both surface before they become a finding or a wasted spend.
Exchange declarations
Support your exchange and vendor declarations with a defensible record of subscribers, applications, and usage — the evidence an auditor asks for, kept current rather than reconstructed.
Audit trail
Every change to a contract, entitlement, or allocation is recorded, and you can view the position as of any past date — so “what did we hold, and when” has an answer you can show.
The problem
Proving compliance from spreadsheets is a scramble
When a vendor audit or an exchange declaration lands, the questions are specific: how many users had access to this feed, on which applications, at which sites, and under what redistribution rights — last month, and last year. If entitlements live in one spreadsheet, usage in another, and the contracts in a shared drive, answering means reconciling three out-of-date sources under time pressure.
The exposure runs both ways. Use more than you are licensed for and the true-up bill and the compliance risk follow. Pay for entitlements nobody uses and the cost quietly compounds. Market data compliance is really the discipline of keeping usage and entitlements reconciled — continuously, not once a year when someone asks.
Audit trail and European hosting
A record you can show, hosted in Europe
Marketdata.ai records every change to a contract, entitlement, or allocation and lets you view the position as of any past date, so a declaration or an audit is answered from evidence rather than reconstruction. It runs on EU-primary infrastructure hosted in Germany, with AI processing kept to EU-first sub-processors.
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Part of the platform
Compliance sits on top of the record
Contract compliance, answered
What is market data contract compliance?
Market data contract compliance is proving that your actual use of each vendor feed matches what your contract entitles you to — the right number of users and applications, the permitted sites, and the agreed redistribution and display rights. Marketdata.ai keeps entitlements, usage, and cost on one record with an audit-ready history, so compliance is something you can show rather than reconstruct.
How does vendor contract compliance work in Marketdata.ai?
Marketdata.ai holds each vendor contract with its entitlements, ties usage and invoices back to it, and records every change. When a vendor or exchange asks who used what, under which rights, and what it cost, the answer comes from the record — including the position as of any past date — instead of an email trail and an out-of-date spreadsheet.
Can Marketdata.ai help prepare for a market data audit?
Yes. Audits turn on defensible history. Marketdata.ai keeps an audit-ready record of contracts, entitlements, allocations, and corrections, so you can answer exchange declarations and vendor questions with evidence that is current rather than rebuilt after the request arrives.
Does Marketdata.ai monitor usage against entitlements?
Marketdata.ai reconciles recorded usage against the entitlements on each contract, so both over-use (a compliance risk) and unused entitlements (a cost you can cut) become visible. It is designed to support the review, not to replace your licensing judgement.
Is Marketdata.ai suitable for a regulated firm's compliance review?
Marketdata.ai is built for finance, procurement, and market data teams at regulated firms: least-privilege roles, an audit trail, EU-primary hosting in Germany, and security documentation available for vendor review. It supports your compliance obligations; it does not certify them on your behalf.
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