Front Cover -- MDDL and the Quest for a Market Data Standard -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Audience of this book -- Structure of the book -- Chapter 2 What is market data? -- Chapter 3 Executive summary -- The Vision -- Linking MDDL to corporate goals -- The business benefits of using MDDL -- MDDL opportunities -- Chapter 4 The financial standards landscape -- Industry standards -- Market data is everywhere -- Chapter 5 Self-describing data and XML basics -- Elements, attributes and hierarchy -- Chapter 6 Evolution of MDDL -- MDDL versioning -- Why use schemas? -- Chapter 7 How MDDL works -- Synopsis of the MDDL hierarchy -- MDDL domains -- Classes and subclasses -- Containers -- Properties -- MDDL property types -- Industry standards used in content -- Creation of new types -- Classification of properties -- Controlled vocabulary -- Top-level wrappers -- Instance headers -- Inheritance -- MDDL extensions -- Naming convention -- Creating an extension schema -- Defining code lists (controlled vocabulary) -- Chapter 8 The life of a financial instrument -- Issuance -- Pricing and reporting -- General pricing and volumes -- Historical pricing -- Book management -- Trade reporting -- Time and sales -- Reconciliation -- Portfolio valuation -- Chapter 9 Regulatory adherence -- Reference data terms -- Best execution -- Regulatory reporting -- Data vendors and end of concentration rules -- Chapter 10 Reference data management -- Business entities -- Indices, rates and indicators -- Corporate action events -- Security definitions -- Alternative solutions to securities definations -- Change mechanism -- Chapter 11 Industry standards - mix and match -- MDDL to FIX, FIX to MDDL -- MDDL and FIXml -- FpML -- RIXML -- XBRL -- SDMX -- ISO standards in the financial sector -- ISO 19312 and MDDL.

ISO 20022 and MDDL -- Chapter 12 MDDL as payload -- MDDL and SOAP -- MDDL as a FIX payload -- MDDL as ebXML or OAGIS payload -- Chapter 13 'Build-your-own' - MDDL equivalent schema -- Chapter 14 UML to XML schema generation -- Chapter 15 Undertaking a mapping exercise? -- Data mapping process -- Data mapping pointers -- Chapter 16 Compression -- xtcMessage (fisdMessage) -- FASTSM -- Chapter 17 A final tribute to Jonathan Castaing -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Glossary and acronyms -- Appendix B: MiFID terms -- References and further reading -- Index.