LSEG Launches First Phase of AI-Ready Content via MCP Server on Databricks Marketplace

LSEG has launchedthe first phase of its AI-ready content on the Databricks Marketplace, delivered via its MCP Server. This milestone in the LSEG and Databricks partnership allows customers using Databricks’ AI product, Agent Bricks, to access LSEG’s financial datasets directly. This integration is designed to enable faster and more scalable AI innovation.

The content rollout begins with LSEG Financial Analytics, which follows the September addition of LSEG’s Lipper Fund Data & Analytics and Historical Analytics. This initiative is part of LSEG’s broader ‘LSEG Everywhere’ AI strategy. LSEG’s AI-ready content totals more than 33 petabytes and aims to improve productivity and reduce risk by providing consistent, traceable, and audit-ready data.

The available datasets include Lipper Fund Data & Analytics, providing structured global fund information to help professionals enhance fund selection, benchmark performance, and optimise investment strategies. Historical Analytics delivers decades of time-series market data essential for back-testing, model training, and long-term market pattern analysis.

LSEG and Nasdaq Announce Strategic Partnership to Distribute Private Markets Intelligence

LSEG and Nasdaq have formed a strategic partnership for LSEG to distribute Nasdaq’s institutional-grade private markets intelligence through its Workspace and Datafeeds platforms. Under the agreement, LSEG will license Nasdaq eVestment datasets, which include Market Lens insights, hedge fund insights, Limited Partner (LP) intelligence, and limited exclusive distribution of private fund and deal-level benchmarks.

The collaboration combines LSEG’s editorial and transactional data on private companies with Nasdaq’s fund performance and LP insights. This creates a comprehensive solution intended to help General Partners (GPs), LPs, and advisors streamline critical workflows, from investment targeting and deal execution to fundraising and portfolio optimisation.

This partnership reinforces LSEG’s commitment to private markets, following its launch of the UK’s first Private Securities Market in September 2025. For Nasdaq, the agreement supports its strategy to embed greater transparency and liquidity into the private investment landscape, enabling more informed decision-making.

TRG Screen Launches Xmon AI Assist for Conversational Market Data Cost Analytics

TRG Screen has launched Xmon AI Assist, a new capability bringing conversational analytics to market data cost management. The tool is designed to provide financial institutions with deeper insight, faster analysis, and proactive cost optimisation. It enhances the existing Xmon platform by adding a natural language interface, allowing users to ask direct questions about their data and receive immediate, contextual answers.

The system helps market data teams identify cost drivers, analyse usage patterns, and find savings opportunities without needing technical data specialists. Developed using a secure Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework, Xmon AI Assist combines large language models with a client’s specific Xmon analytics, ensuring data privacy while delivering accurate responses.

This launch is part of TRG Screen’s broader AI roadmap, following the recent introduction of AI Assist in its PEAR knowledge base. The Xmon AI Assist feature is available immediately to all Xmon clients at no additional cost and requires no onboarding.

FINBOURNE Technology Expands LSEG Partnership to Integrate Yield Book Analytics into LUSID Platform

FINBOURNE Technology and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) are expanding their strategic partnership to integrate LSEG’s Yield Book fixed-income data and analytics into FINBOURNE’s LUSID platform. The move builds upon LSEG’s 2021 adoption of LUSID and its subsequent strategic investment in FINBOURNE.

The integration will allow asset managers to access Yield Book’s analytics for government and corporate bonds, mortgages, derivatives, and other securities. This enables them to perform complex prepayment modelling, loss severity modelling, and other fixed-income analytics in real time, directly within their LUSID portfolio management system.

The integration is set to launch in the second quarter of 2026, and the first client is already scheduled to go live.

Exegy Expands Axiom Market Data Platform to Include TMX Canadian Equity Feeds

Exegy has expanded its Axiom market data-as-a-service solution to include real-time, low-latency Canadian equity data. This data is sourced via the TMX Information Processor (TMX IP). The integration allows global clients to access key Canadian feeds, such as the Canadian Best Bid and Offer (CBBO), Consolidated Data Feed (CDF), and Consolidated Last Sale (CLS).

Clients can access the TMX feeds through their existing cross-connects to Exegy’s New York point of presence. This removes the need for firms to build or maintain separate, dedicated infrastructure or co-location facilities in Canada. The expansion is intended to streamline operations, reduce data centre footprints, and accelerate time-to-market for trading firms.

Driven by client demand, the service allows firms to subscribe to one, two, or all three of the available feeds. This expansion follows the June 2025 launch of Exegy Nexus, a separate FPGA-powered market data platform.

Linedata Extends Global Services Offering to UK Market

Linedata, the global provider of asset management and credit technology, has extended its Global Services offering to the UK. A new business unit is being established at the group’s London branch to manage the launch, which builds on Linedata’s existing software expertise and two-decade presence in the UK. The move addresses rising demand for outsourcing in the UK, driven by economic pressures, a need for increased returns, and talent shortages in key operational areas.

The new services are designed to help organisations scale efficiently using flexible delivery models, including nearshore, offshore, or on-site options. The offering includes AI-driven investment process automation through its Cognitive Investment Data Management (CIDM) solution, middle and back-office outsourcing with AI-enabled reconciliation, and advisory services on digital transformation and AI.

Linedata provides clients with access to experienced talent and standardised processes through a globally integrated operating model. The services can be deployed on an organisation’s own software platform or that of a third-party supplier. The offering is available to UK firms immediately.

New Exegy Whitepaper Quantifies High Cost of In-House FPGA Market Data Infrastructure

Exegy has released the second part of its whitepaper detailing the true cost of market data infrastructure. The report quantifies the high expense for firms building and maintaining their own FPGA-based market data feed handlers. Key findings show a firm’s first in-house handler costs approximately $5.35 million, with full North American equities coverage (18 markets) totalling nearly $9.8 million. This is over five times more expensive than Exegy’s equivalent service. Annual maintenance for an in-house system is estimated at $4.59 million, more than double Exegy’s managed service costs.

The report also highlights the significant time investment, estimating 3.5 years for the first handler and 6.5 years for full coverage, compared to 6 months and 20 months respectively with Exegy. This diverts valuable engineering resources from core strategies. Exegy’s new Nexus platform is presented as a solution, using FPGA hardware to deliver ultra-low latency and 36% lower operational costs. It provides the performance benefits of an in-house build without the associated cost, time, and maintenance burden.

LSEG Expands Partnership with BlackRock to Enhance Private Markets Intelligence

LSEG has expanded its partnership with BlackRock, focused on strengthening its private markets intelligence offering. Through a new advanced data integration, LSEG customers will gain access to Preqin private markets data via the LSEG Workspace platform and its Data & Feeds products.

In parallel, LSEG and BlackRock have deepened their data integrations in two other areas. LSEG has renewed its multi-year partnership to provide its Pricing and Reference Services data to BlackRock’s Aladdin platform to support investment decisions.

Furthermore, BlackRock has extended its partnership with FTSE Russell, part of LSEG. This extension allows BlackRock to continue to license the index provider’s benchmarks to create investment vehicles for its clients.

ITRS Launches Solution to Help Indian MIIs Meet New SEBI Capacity Rules

ITRS, provider of real-time monitoring solutions for regulated environments, has launched its Real-Time Capacity Planning Solution. The new product is designed to help Indian Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs), such as exchanges and clearing corporations, comply with revised guidelines from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) that became enforceable in December 2024.

The SEBI regulations mandate that MIIs must maintain 1.5 times their projected peak capacity, monitor 10-second sustained load performance, and provide real-time system performance data to regulators. The ITRS solution is purpose-built to address these specific requirements.

Powered by Geneos 7 and ITRS Analytics, the platform offers features including sub-second monitoring, automated capacity forecasting, and SEBI-aligned reporting templates. The solution, which also provides proactive risk alerts, is now available to all SEBI-regulated entities.

TS Imagine Partners with Gentek.ai to Integrate AI into Capital Markets Platform

TS Imagine, the trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions provider, has entered a strategic development partnership with AI platform Gentek.ai. The integration of Gentek.ai’s horizontal AI infrastructure directly into TS Imagine’s platform is designed to offer users faster workflows, automated processes, and richer insights through advanced reporting.

By embedding agentic workflows, TS Imagine aims to create new efficiencies for banks, asset managers, and wealth managers in areas such as Trading and Execution, using predictive intelligence for order routing; Risk Management, for real-time monitoring and stress testing; Financing & Prime Services, to streamline reporting; and Wealth Management, to provide personalised portfolio insights. The partnership promises to deliver modular, enterprise-grade solutions to reduce complexity and improve performance.