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CME Group Introduces Baseball Futures Based on Team Performance Indexes
CME Group has announced the launch of what it describes as the world’s first baseball futures contracts, extending its derivatives offering into professional sports. The contracts were scheduled to begin trading on 12 October, subject to regulatory review. Developed with FutureSports, the contracts track CME FutureSports Performance Indexes (FSPI), which use official league statistics to…
FactSet Expands Partnership with Scotia Wealth Management
FactSet has expanded its partnership with Scotia Wealth Management, part of Scotiabank, to provide broader access to investment research, market data and portfolio analytics across the Canadian wealth management business. Under the expanded agreement, financial advisers, investment professionals and support teams will gain access to FactSet’s unified research and intelligence platform, bringing together investment research,…
Is AI Changing the Market Data Business and Opening the Door to New Competition?
Artificial intelligence is prompting financial institutions to reassess how they source, consume and manage market data, potentially creating new opportunities for providers seeking to challenge established vendor relationships. As AI-driven workflows become more prevalent, data quality, governance and delivery flexibility are emerging as increasingly important considerations alongside traditional requirements for coverage, performance and cost. These…
Pyth and Exa Explore New Market Data Model for AI Agents
Pyth Network and AI-native search provider Exa are collaborating to explore how AI agents can combine financial market data with web-based research, potentially opening up new approaches to data distribution, licensing and consumption as agentic AI becomes more widely adopted in financial services. The collaboration, currently in an early testing phase, brings together Exa’s search…
Waypoint Launches Wayfinder to Turn Exchange Notifications into Operational Intelligence
Waypoint Trading Solutions has launched Wayfinder, a new service designed to help financial institutions manage the growing volume of operational and market-data changes communicated by exchanges. Built into Waypoint’s existing Data Notification Manager (DNM) platform and developed in partnership with SEAD Software, Wayfinder uses AI to ingest exchange notifications and convert unstructured information into standardised…
Lynx Asset Management Selects xyt for Global Equities Liquidity Analytics
Stockholm-based systematic investment manager Lynx Asset Management has selected xyt to provide independent volume and liquidity analytics across global equities markets, supporting the development of its systematic trading strategies. The partnership will give Lynx a more granular view of intraday liquidity across trading venues, execution mechanisms and different times of day, moving beyond aggregated or…
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…
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…