The competitiveness of EU asset managers is heavily reliant on the quality, stability, cost-efficiency and predictability of the rules under which they operate.

As part of our recommendations to make competitiveness a central element of all EU policies, we highlight the importance of tackling anti-competitive market practices and the ever-increasing cost of various types of data.

In this paper, we identify cross-cutting data issues and bring to light the uneven playing fields between data providers that are detrimental to the asset management industry. We also propose overarching regulatory principles to foster consistency, quality, transparency, and availability of financial and non-financial data at a reasonable price.