Membership

 

Member firms can be of any size and cover sectors as diverse as - banks, insurance companies, brokers, fund managers, building societies - in fact anyone who uses market data services. Suppliers of Market Data services, such as exchanges, vendors and consultancy firms, are not eligible for membership of IPUG at this time.

Membership of IPUG entitles delegates from member firms to:

1. Attend our general membership meetings – General meetings:

  • usually occur every three months
  • last about three hours
  • provide a wonderful opportunity to meet with your peers from other organisations
  • summarise progress with suppliers and SIGs in the last quarter (see below)
  • identify further areas to be addressed on behalf of the membership
  • provide an open forum for the discussion of any issue a member wishes to bring to the table
  • provide the opportunity for a member firm or an invited supplier to present to the membership

2. Attend Special Interest Groups (SIGs) – SIGS:

  • are formed at the request of the membership to resolve a pressing issue with a supplier. Or, if a supplier is deemed critical to a large part of the membership, a SIG may be formed to monitor the vendor on an ongoing basis
  • meet outside of the general meetings, perhaps as often as every two months depending on the level of activity or member demand 
  • provide focused discussion forums for interested subsets of members
  • are open to any IPUG delegate 

Currently, IPUG runs vendor focused SIG groups for Reuters, Bloomberg and Thomson, and topic focused groups for Buyside, Thin Client and Exchanges 

3. Access to the IPUG Executive, formed from senior members of the Market Data Industry. Contact details are as published on the Executive Committee page of the website. 

4. Access to your peers for pressing issues – any member may send an email to the IPUG general address if they have a question about a product or a problem they are encountering. 

5. Access to the members area of the IPUG website – www.ipug.org . The IPUG website is updated regularly with market news, key diary dates and minutes from the special interest groups, general meetings etc. 

6. Receive the regular newsletter (issued approximately monthly)

7. Avail of privileged offers from third parties – in practice these tend to be rare as IPUG seeks to be impartial in its dealing with suppliers

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