IPUG has strong working relationships with the major real-time information service vendors such as Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg. These working relationships enhance and support the traditional relationship which each Market Data manager maintains with their own suppliers by using the membership’s collective voice to focus the supplier on generic issues affecting all users. IPUG is recognised by these vendors as the users’ legitimate voice, and is often consulted and asked to contribute to supplier policy decisions which affect the membership. The list of suppliers with which IPUG maintains direct relationships changes depending on changes in the marketplace and the wishes of the membership.