Series Editor’s Preface
This book is part of the Elsevier World Capital Markets Series which cover devel-
opments in the capital markets, as well as basic texts introducing the markets to those
working directly or indirectly in the capital markets. Information is fundamental to the
capital markets industry. Whether you are a technologist trying to understand market
data or a market expert working with a technologist to elicit the best price across mar-
ket centres, you need to work from common definitions and a common understanding
of the building blocks of market data. That is precisely what this book does.
When I was working for one of the world’s leading information companies, I would
have given anything to get my hands on a book like this.
Marc ...