Nothing new really. Where do you think Yahoo Finance have been getting their data from for all these years? Did that save the company? Result in a lots of new deals??? Get real... What's sad is that Yahoo Finance (and now probably Microsoft too) are more widely quoted for the source of this "free data" then TR/Refinitiv who supply it. Yahoo did with our content what we have been unable to do on our own site... Make the "free data" accessible in a manner people want to consume it (just have to look at the referrals in internet forums if proof is required). And now we're pretending this MS deal is something new and/or special and/or result in something big... It won't... We need to deliver products that customers want and confirming that's what we did, holding the delivery team (leaders, ProdMan etc) accountable for it including the revenue that it generates rather than a PPT about how it will be fully delivered in the 2025 roadmap... Delivering half baked implementations (due to lack of investment) which barely does what it's supposed to and than ticking our own boxes and patting ourselves on the back is the culture today in Refinitiv.
Thought that this post deserves its own thread, even though I found it as a reply on the Refinitiv board ( @VGo3R1f-kwi ). We lack the ability to deliver our product to the final customer, and then when others do it for us and take the credit we disguise that failure and present it as big partnerships and deals. Sad but very true.