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FOW Professional: Timely market intelligence and detailed data at your fingertips

In the fast-paced world of financial markets, access to accurate data and timely market commentary can be the difference between making informed decisions and missing opportunities. FOW, with its specialist focus and deep knowledge of the world’s futures and options markets, has been at the forefront of providing reference data and market intelligence to industry professionals for nearly 30 years. The launch of the new FOW Professional platform in November will provide a new and efficient way for market participants to access and utilise this wealth of knowledge.
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In the fast-paced world of financial markets, access to accurate data and timely market commentary can be the difference between making informed decisions and missing opportunities. FOW, with its specialist focus and deep knowledge of the world’s futures and options markets, has been at the forefront of providing reference data and market intelligence to industry professionals for nearly 30 years. The launch of the new FOW Professional platform in November will provide a new and efficient way for market participants to access and utilise this wealth of knowledge.
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FOW Professional expands the range of markets that users can monitor. Coverage of 115+ exchanges worldwide includes all the major players, and also captures data from less mature destinations that are becoming increasingly relevant in the global trading landscape, from India to Mexico.
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One of the standout features of FOW Professional is that it brings together FOW’s comprehensive reference data with timely market insights, focused industry analysis and volumes data, to enable users to build a complete picture of market activities and trends.
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FOW Professional meets this ‘needs’ gap, through a universally accessible, user-friendly portal that delivers the right data - and market intelligence - to different types of user to meet differing user needs.
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Autumn 2024 will herald a major milestone in FOW’s history with the launch of FOW Professional, a new online platform, and new way to deliver all of FOW’s content in one place
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The Merriam Webster dictionary defines ‘symbology’ as a system - and the interpretation of symbols. It also defines it as ‘the art of expression by symbols’ which if applied to the confusion of symbols used to describe specific derivatives reference data might suggest a more abstract than realist art form.
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This week marked the 16th anniversary of the FIA IDX in London - Walt Lukken, President and CEO of FIA opened the event with a keynote address that touched on the developments and challenges facing the global derivatives market, and particularly the potential impacts of a ‘historic election year’ for Europe, the UK and North America.
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The fast-approaching Eid al-Adha holiday, the second of the two main holidays celebrated in Islam that this year begins on June 14, is a timely opportunity to look at another essential element of financial markets reference data - exchange holiday dates.
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The global Futures and Options market continues to grow exponentially, year on year, in terms of the absolute number and volumes of F&O instruments issued and traded, and especially the explosive growth in trading activity in newer markets. In the APAC region, for example, futures and options (and other derivatives) trading is gaining huge momentum and represents an increasingly large share of the ‘global derivatives wallet’. It is estimated that this region’s trading volumes doubled in 2023, with particularly significant activity in India and China. In India alone, activity on major exchanges including the National Stock Exchange leapt around 80% in equity-related derivative transactions (and around 30% for energy, agriculture and precious metals).
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Data normalisation - standardising the presentation of data to ensure it is consistent across required fields and records - is an essential component of effective financial data management, enabling reference data in particular to be recognised, interrogated and incorporated into required data workflows much more easily, and minimising the risk of reconciliation and compliance ‘fails’.