This is the year that Voting Systems on the buyside are really going to accelerate in usage.

A lot of the original voting systems - Thomson Extel in particular - use a top down survey approach.  Meaning, as a PM, you vote on Bank X’s research out of 10, their Corporate Access out of 10.  You do not vote on specific meetings or ideas.  But buyside firms are finding it hard to trust this kind of vote - when their PMs are filling out the survey from memory.  They need data - and they know it.   They need to be able to run a simple league table that shows the number of meetings they have taken by bank.  Ideally weighted for meeting value.

Lots of firms will be there to provide such tools this year.  We are now live with FactSet as the first and are about to go live with themarkets.com.

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