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Upcoming Webinar: From Data to Alpha: AI Strategies for Taming Unstructured Data
Date: 16 April 2026 Time: 9:00am ET / 2:00pm London / 3:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Unstructured data now accounts for the majority of information flowing through financial markets organisations, spanning research content, corporate disclosures, communications, alternative data, and internal documents. While AI has created new opportunities to extract signal from this data, many firms…
Upcoming Webinar: Data platform modernisation: Best practice approaches for unifying data, real time data and automated processing
Date: 17 March 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Financial institutions are evolving their data platform modernisation programmes, moving beyond data-for-cloud capabilities and increasingly towards artificial intelligence-readiness. This has shifted the data management focus in the direction of data unification, real-time delivery and automated governance. The drivers of…
Exegy to Launch First Consolidated Overnight BBO Feed for After-Hours Trading Venues
Exegy is set to introduce what it describes as the first consolidated Overnight Best Bid and Offer (OBBO) feed covering all three US after-hours equity trading venues, addressing a gap in overnight price discovery as markets move toward extended and near-continuous trading models. The new feed, due to be launched within the next few weeks…
Barclays Deepens Market Data Strategy with Multiyear FactSet Agreement
Barclays has agreed a multiyear strategic collaboration with FactSet that marks a shift in how the bank is approaching market data and analytics infrastructure as part of a broader enterprise-level data strategy. The arrangement will see Barclays integrate a broad suite of FactSet products, data and technology solutions into its workflows to support data-driven decision-making…
BondWave Expands TQA Capabilities, Extends Execution Analytics in Latest Effi Release
BondWave, the fintech specialising in fixed income analytics and workflow tools, has rolled out a new release of its Effi platform that significantly expands the scope and depth of its Transaction Quality Analysis (TQA) capabilities, reflecting a broader industry push to bring greater rigour, context, and comparability to fixed income execution analytics. The latest enhancements…
UK Equity Consolidated Tape and EU MiFIR – Two Data Regimes, One Control Problem
The UK’s proposed equity consolidated tape is framed as a response to long-standing fragmentation in equity market data. By aggregating post-trade information and an attributed best bid and offer across trading venues, the tape is intended to provide a single, standardised view of UK equity trading. At the same time, transaction reporting under the Markets…
Bloomberg Introduces Alternative Data Entitlements, Bringing Premium Datasets Deeper into Research Workflows
Bloomberg has introduced Alternative Data Entitlements within its ALTD platform on the Bloomberg Terminal, reflecting a broader institutional shift towards embedding alternative data directly into established research workflows rather than treating it as a standalone input. The new entitlement capability enables Bloomberg Terminal users to access faster, more granular alternative data analytics from specialist providers…
Glimpse Markets Partners with Boltzbit to Embed Live-learning AI into Fixed Income Workflows
Glimpse Markets, the buy-side data sharing network focused on the cash bond markets, has partnered with Boltzbit, the deeptech AI company, to embed live-learning, agent-based AI directly into its buy-side bond data-sharing platform, as part of a multi-phase integration programme set to begin in early 2026. Rather than positioning AI as a downstream analytics layer,…
When Margin Moves Upstream: How TT is Reworking Trading Decisions After the OpenGamma Deal
More than a month after completing its acquisition of OpenGamma, Trading Technologies is beginning to articulate how the deal is intended to change the way firms think about margin, capital efficiency, and trading decision-making. Rather than positioning margin as a downstream risk or treasury concern, TT is now framing capital efficiency as a front-office variable…
Market Data Distribution Parity: Redefining Fairness
By Scott Schweitzer, Independent Consultant, LDA Technologies. Electronic exchanges play a vital role in the financial industry, providing a robust and trusted forum for trading and execution without issue. But even so, the technology available to exchanges has traditionally led to discrepancies in data distribution, from microseconds to nanoseconds, which can be critical for latency-sensitive…