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Why Agentic AI Is Shifting Attention Back to the Data Layer
The rapid improvement of large language models is changing the way financial institutions approach agentic AI. Model capability remains important, alongside the practical challenges of connecting AI to the right data, providing sufficient context, embedding agents into investment workflows and controlling what they can access and do. These issues featured prominently during a panel discussion...
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Bloomberg Enterprise MCP Brings Market Data into the Agentic AI Workflow
Bloomberg has launched an enterprise AI access layer for its Data License Plus (DL+) offering, giving clients’ AI agents a standardised way to discover, interpret and retrieve licensed Bloomberg data across more than 100 million securities and over 50,000 fields. Bloomberg Enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP) combines the data with metadata, semantic context and entity...
BMLL and Simudyne Bring Reactive AI Simulation to Trading and Market Structure
BMLL and Simudyne have partnered to combine granular historical order book data with generative AI and agent-based simulation, creating simulated markets that can respond dynamically to trading activity rather than simply replaying historical events. The collaboration brings BMLL’s harmonised Level 2 and Level 3 historical data into Simudyne’s Pulse intraday market simulator. Simudyne is using...
FactSet Pushes Deeper into Enterprise Market Data Infrastructure with BCC Group Acquisition
FactSet’s acquisition of BCC Group International (bccg) brings the data and analytics provider further into the infrastructure layer underpinning institutional market data, as financial firms reassess architectures built around legacy distribution platforms. Announced last week, the deal brings bccg’s ONE Platform into FactSet’s Real-Time Solution Suite, combining FactSet’s real-time, historical and reference data capabilities with...
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Apptopia Launches MCP Server for AI-Driven Alternative Data Analysis
Apptopia has launched an MCP Server designed to enable investment analysts and portfolio managers to access and analyse its mobile app data directly through large language models including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot. Rather than simply exposing raw alternative data through an API, Apptopia says its MCP incorporates analytical logic developed specifically for mobile…
Bloomberg Unveils CLO Data Service
Bloomberg has launched a collateralised loan obligations data solution, delivering reference datasets for market participants through the Bloomberg Data License. The launch connects enterprise loan-level data with regulatory, liquidity and credit risk datasets. “Bloomberg is making it easier for clients to understand how the security, its collateral and the corporate borrower fit together in one…
SOLVE Expands Fixed Income Data and Trading Workflow Tools
SOLVE has introduced a series of enhancements to its fixed income platform, spanning TRACE market data, structured credit workflows and relative value analytics. The new TRACE Data Product Suite brings reported trade activity into SOLVE’s MBS Source workflow alongside collateral characteristics, historical offers, BWIC results and other security-level information. Coverage includes agency and non-agency MBS…
FutureSports and MLB Pave Way for Team Performance Futures
FutureSports has agreed with Major League Baseball (MLB) to create rules-based financial indexes tracking the performance of each of the league’s 30 teams, potentially providing the basis for a new class of sports-related derivatives. Under the agreement, MLB will supply Official League Data for the creation of CME FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI). CME Group plans…
State Street Launches PriceStats Superset for Daily Inflation Analysis
State Street has launched PriceStats Superset, a global dataset providing daily, item-level pricing data designed to give investors, policymakers and researchers earlier insight into the forces driving inflation. The dataset builds on State Street PriceStats, its high-frequency inflation measurement service, by providing access to the underlying item-level data used to construct its indices. Covering 27…
SIX Launches API-Based European Market Data Service
SIX has launched SIX Market Signal, a new API-based marketplace providing real-time and historical European market data to institutional and retail users. Its core product, 1BBO, provides a real-time European cash equities stream showing best bid and ask prices using order-book data from SIX Swiss Exchange and BME Exchange, alongside 16 European markets covered by…
ADX Launches First MENA Integration of Live Market Data into Conversational AI Platforms
The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has become the first stock exchange in the MENA region to provide direct access to official live market data through conversational artificial intelligence platforms, including ChatGPT and Claude. Delivered via a governed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, the framework enables investors, developers, and institutions to query exchange data using…
S&P Global Expands Collaboration with Microsoft to Integrate AI Data into Microsoft 365 Copilot
S&P Global has announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to integrate its AI-ready data, analytics, and insights directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot workflows and agentic tools. Powered by the S&P Global AI Data Portal’s Deterministic Retrieval solution – also known as the Kensho LLM-ready API – the system enables users to access verifiable and cited…
Exegy to Distribute EuroCTP’s Real-Time Shares and ETF Feed
Exegy will distribute EuroCTP’s real-time multicast FIX SBE feed, the EU’s first real-time pre- and post-trade Consolidated Tape for shares and ETFs, when it goes live on September 14th. Building on a technology partnership established in 2024, Exegy will serve as a redistribution partner for the feed. This includes the European Best Bid and Offer…
LSEG Integrates Financial Data with Model ML via MCP Connector
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has announced that its licensed data and analytics are now available on Model ML. This integration is facilitated by a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector, providing secure access to AI-ready financial content directly within financial services workflows. Model ML operates as an AI workflow automation platform specifically designed for…
Clearstream Partners with Ares to Boost Access to Private Markets
Clearstream, the post-trade business of Deutsche Börse Group, has partnered with alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation to add Ares’ private market strategies to its fund platform. The collaboration aims to simplify the investment process for fund distributors, allowing them to access private market investments with the same operational efficiency as traditional mutual funds. For…
Zema Global and Natural Gas Intelligence Enhance North American Energy Data Partnership
Zema Global and Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) have announced an enhanced data partnership designed to provide energy market participants with expanded natural gas pricing and flow data. Building on an existing seven-year relationship, the collaboration integrates NGI’s extensive datasets into Zema Global’s Decisioning Infrastructure to support curve analytics, portfolio valuation, trading, and risk management in…
Exegy Expands Axiom Market Data Feed to Cover Key Middle Eastern Exchanges
Exegy has expanded its real-time consolidated market data feed, Axiom, to include key Middle Eastern exchanges. The update introduces coverage for markets in Saudi Arabia (TASI), Qatar (QSE), Kuwait (KSE), Abu Dhabi (ADX), and Dubai (DFM). This data is delivered with low latency via Exegy’s London Points of Presence (PoP) at the Equinix LD4 and…
Five Rings Joins BMLL Client Product Advisory Board
Financial data and analytics provider BMLL has welcomed proprietary trading firm Five Rings to its Client Product Advisory Board (CPAB). The New York-based firm will contribute its technological and market structure expertise to help shape BMLL’s future product roadmap, supporting the board’s mission to elevate historical market data standards across the industry. Five Rings utilizes…
S&P Global Integrates Energy Insights Into Capital IQ Pro
S&P Global has integrated news and insights from S&P Global Energy into the S&P Capital IQ Pro platform, giving clients AI-powered access to proprietary intelligence across the global energy value chain. The integration is positioned as a response to heightened geopolitical uncertainty and the resulting volatility in global energy markets, which is increasingly feeding through…
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Moody’s Corporation Appoints Christina Kosmowski as CEO of Moody’s Analytics
Moody’s Corporation has announced that Christina Kosmowski will take over as Chief Executive Officer of Moody’s Analytics in June. Kosmowski joins the firm with nearly 30 years of experience in the enterprise technology sector, having previously held senior leadership positions at several major global firms. Her expertise lies in scaling high-growth businesses and implementing customer…
BMLL Appoints Kevin Barrett as Senior Sales Director for Listed Derivatives
BMLL, provider of harmonised historical data and analytics, has appointed Kevin Barrett as Senior Sales Director for Listed Derivatives. Based in the US, Barrett is tasked with driving the company’s expansion within the listed derivatives sector. This move follows a period of significant corporate development for the firm, including its recent acquisition by Nordic Capital…
Exegy Appoints Laurent de Barry as Chief Product Officer and Jogesh Menon as Product Director for Axiom
Exegy, provider of low-latency trading and enterprise market data solutions, has announced two key leadership appointments. Laurent de Barry has been promoted to Chief Product Officer (CPO), and Jogesh Menon has been appointed as Director for the Axiom market data as-a-service offering. These moves are designed to strengthen the company’s dual strategic pillars of low-latency…
TRG Screen Appoints Amjad Zoghbi as Head of AI to Drive Innovation
TRG Screen has appointed Amjad Zoghbi as its first Head of AI, a newly established executive role designed to embed artificial intelligence at the centre of the company’s strategy. The move reflects TRG Screen’s aim to enhance its internal operations, deliver greater value to clients, and reinforce its position as the only provider integrating market…
Exegy Appoints Jim Fiesel as Chief Revenue Officer to Drive Growth and Innovation
Exegy, the market data and trading technology provider, has appointed Jim Fiesel as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Fiesel, previously Managing Director of the Americas at Broadridge, brings extensive expertise from leadership roles at Bloomberg, Tradeweb, and Finastra. Exegy’s 64% sales growth in 2024 highlights its momentum, which Fiesel aims to accelerate drawing on his deep…
BMLL Appoints Former HSBC Executive Niall Cameron as Non-Executive Director
Historical market data and analytics provider BMLL has announced the appointment of Niall Cameron as a Non-Executive Director to support the company’s strategic development. Cameron, who’s career spans over three decades and has included executive roles at HSBC, IHS Markit, and ABN Amro, also joins BMLL’s group of investors. The appointment of Cameron, who comes…
Exegy Appoints Brian Pomraning as Chief Revenue Officer
Trading and market data systems vendor Exegy has appointed industry veteran Brian Pomraning as Chief Revenue Officer. With 25 years of leadership experience in the financial services industry, including product management, technology, sales, and marketing, Pomraning has a proven track record of transforming and growing global businesses and cross-functional teams. During his career, Pomraning has…
DiffusionData Appoints Former CME Group Executive Scott Fink as Managing Director for the Americas
DiffusionData, a company specialising in real-time data streaming and messaging solutions, has appointed Scott Fink as its new Managing Director for the Americas. Fink, formerly an Executive Director of Site Reliability Engineering at CME Group, will oversee customer and partner engagements across the US, Canada, and Latin America. During his tenure at CME Group, Fink…
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Alternative Data in Capital Markets Handbook 2026
Alternative data adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. Simply possessing a dataset is no longer a differentiator – the priority now is how data is sourced, synthesised and deployed, and how quickly granular, disaggregated signals can be turned into validated, decision-ready insight. The 2026 edition of the Alternative Data in…
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From noise to knowledge: why financial AI needs trusted news
Decisions in financial markets are increasingly shaped by machines. Yet the information feeding those decisions is arriving in unprecedented volume, velocity and variety. As a result, the true differentiator is no longer access to more content, but access to news that is trusted, relevant and correct to the moment in time. With AI rapidly becoming...
Using AI for rapid access to robust, accurate and usable insights: How AI is unlocking data value for optimal trading and investment decisions
Traders and investment managers need to have confidence in the data sets they use to make faster, smarter decisions. After initial reticence, they are now finding that AI can help unlock hidden value in datasets, by augmenting workflows and offering unprecedented degrees of personalisation. With AI-enabled data discovery and visualisation, market participants can enjoy superior,...
Valuing Hard-to-Price Securities in Volatile Markets
Valuing hard-to-price securities has long been a complex endeavour for asset managers and institutional investment firms, particularly for OTC instruments and illiquid assets. This challenge is amplified in volatile markets, where obtaining direct, observable prices becomes even more difficult, making accurate valuations a significant issue with serious consequences. To address this, the use of reliable,...
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Upcoming Webinar: Modernising Equities Trading Infrastructure: Architecture, Resilience and the Economics of Change
Date: 14 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Equities markets are entering a more distributed, always-on phase. Liquidity is fragmenting across venues and geographies, trading hours are extending toward 24/5 and beyond, and market data volumes, investor expectations and competitive pressure are all rising at once. Many...
Upcoming Webinar: Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Markets: What the Data Really Shows
Date: 15 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial markets – but the reality on the ground is more nuanced, more uneven, and more instructive than the headlines suggest. A new A-Team Insight research programme, drawing on responses from senior AI decision-makers at...
Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, Spring, New York, hosted by A-Team Group
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