
It’s pretty fitting that the subject of static data is left to last. The nasty secret of the infor-
mation industry is that this class of content is almost always thought of after the fact.
Also known as ‘domain data’ or ‘lookup data’, this class of market data provides
definitions to code values used on all datafeed services. Coded values are routinely
used in order to minimize space and support processing efficiency. As a result, for any
given code value there needs to be a corresponding definition held elsewhere in what
is commonly referred to as a ‘lookup table’.
As is common across the market data domain, there are few common standards
applied ...