
16 Market Data Explained
Capital markets data
Business data
Reference data
Primary
identifiers
‘backbone’
Data source
identifiers
Global business
data
Asset-specific
business data
Static data
Figure 2.3 Data types as entities.
Each of the various classes and subclasses underlying this organizational structure is
defined in the following sections. The approach is to ‘drill down’ within each data type
and associated subtypes, so as to provide a quick reference to each component of the
data model.
An important point to note here is that the static data class is pervasive, used across
the entire framework. While the organization chart represents this as a distinct ...