Take Control of One of Your Firm's Largest Expenses

Market data is one of the top four costs for financial services firms, yet most lack the visibility and governance to manage it effectively. Oceanview Partners helps institutions reduce costs, strengthen compliance, improve operational efficiency, and bring control and transparency to their market data spend.

$44B+
Global Market Data Spend Annually
70%+
Of Firms Lack Visibility Into Usage
Top 4
Cost for Financial Services Firms
$80-150M
Average Annual Tier 1 Buy-Side Spend

Who We Serve

Asset Managers

Asset management firms are grappling with surging market data costs, particularly from benchmark and index data providers. In 2024, global spend on financial market data hit record levels (over $44 billion).

Investment Banks

Large investment banks operate large, multi-department platforms that consume vast amounts of real-time market data, reference data, and analytics – and the licensing structure around this data has become a major pain point.

Hedge Funds

Hedge funds increasingly attribute their competitive edge to proprietary data and analytics, from high-frequency market feeds to niche alternative datasets. The challenge is usage optimization – making sure every dataset and feed in the firm's portfolio is delivering value that justifies its cost and complexity.

Private Equity

Private equity (PE) firms have historically been lean on market data, but that is changing due to regulatory compliance pressures. In 2024–2025, U.S.-based private fund managers face a wave of new regulatory expectations around transparency, reporting, and data governance.

Deep Expertise. Practitioner-Led. Globally Trusted.

Our team are former senior market data leaders from the buy-side and sell-side. We've managed the programs, negotiated the contracts, and navigated the audits. The world's leading professional services firms trust our expertise to power their market data advisory practices. Now, that same knowledge is available directly to you.

How We Help Financial Institutions

Market Data Licensing Support

Navigate complex vendor agreements and optimize your licensing strategy to reduce costs while maintaining essential coverage.

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Compliance Audit Support

We help clients create data-compliant programs by identifying and mitigating risks associated with the use of vendor data.

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Remediation Services

Address compliance issues quickly and effectively with our proven remediation strategies and vendor relationships.

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Why Choose Oceanview Partners

In today's financial markets, market data has become one of the largest, and least controlled, expenses across the front, middle, and back office. Licensing complexity, constant vendor audits, and rising costs have made optimization not just a cost-saving exercise, but a strategic imperative.

Oceanview Partners exists to solve that problem.

We're not generalist consultants. We are specialists in market data cost optimization, licensing compliance, and usage governance for asset managers, hedge funds, investment banks, and private equity firms. Our team is built from former market-data, vendor management, and compliance leaders who've sat on both sides of the table. We understand how vendors think, how audits are triggered, and how to build sustainable savings without disrupting mission-critical access.

We help clients cut waste, neutralize license risk, and stay fully compliant, while ensuring every user, terminal, and API connection remains properly entitled and fit for purpose.

Strategic market data optimization

Proven Results

Tier 1 US Investment Manager: 15-20% Savings Post-Merger

Delivered a Target Operating Model and right-sized vendor contracts within four months following a major merger.

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Tier 1 Investment Bank: 20% Savings Across Three Continents

Assessed market data operations across three offices on three continents, delivering a global Target Operating Model and 20% cost reduction.

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Ready to Optimize Your Market Data Spend?

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