TradingTech Insight Market Data & Analytics The latest content from across the platform
TRG Screen Launches Contracts AI to Automate Market Data Agreement Analysis
TRG Screen has introduced Contracts AI, a new feature within its Optimize Spend platform designed to streamline the management of market data contracts. This AI-powered tool enables financial institutions to automatically extract and interpret complex usage rights, restrictions, and obligations from legal documents. By converting static contracts into structured, operational data, firms can now ingest…
“Take it When You Can” is the New Reality in U.S. Credit Markets
By Kevin Rutter, CEO of AIQ Markets. While the recent geopolitical shock has temporarily slowed issuance in U.S. corporate bonds, a notable market shift was already underway. Companies have been increasingly opportunistically, accelerating debt issuance when windows open, rather than waiting for ideal conditions – and this is raising new challenges for market participants in…
Driving the Future of Capital Markets: A-Team Group’s Innovation Awards 2026 Winners Announced
A-Team Group is proud to reveal the winners of our Innovation Awards 2026, celebrating the visionary technology providers and practitioners redefining the landscape of financial services. Now in its sixth year, these awards recognise excellence in the deployment of new and emerging technologies across capital markets. This year’s recipients have demonstrated extraordinary ingenuity in solving…
Inside Bloomberg’s ASKB Roadmap: the Data Moat Behind the AI
When Bloomberg unveiled its 2026 roadmap for ASKB on 16 April, the headline framing was the evolution of the conversational AI interface – now in beta – from a discovery tool into “a deeply integrated engine for institutional intelligence.” Beneath that framing sits a substantial set of integrations: ASKB will work directly with Portfolio &…
Building for a Market That Never Sleeps: Inside LSEG’s Real-Time Data Platform Optimisation
As data volumes surge and markets move toward 24/7 operation, LSEG is rebuilding the infrastructure that underpins its real-time data services – combining hyperscaler capabilities with private-cloud control to deliver scale, speed and resilience for the next generation of capital markets workflows. The forces reshaping real-time data The demands on real-time market data infrastructure are…
BMLL Integrates SpiderRock Options Analytics into Data Lab Environment
BMLL has expanded its cross-asset research capabilities by making SpiderRock’s Options Print Set data available through the BMLL Data Lab. This integration allows institutional clients to analyse the relationship between options markets and underlying cash equity behaviour within a single, unified framework. By combining SpiderRock’s print-level analytics with BMLL’s historical data, users can better evaluate…
xyt Layers Natural-Language AI onto Trading Data Platform as Race for AI-Ready Analytics Intensifies
xyt, the independent trading data intelligence platform formerly known as big xyt, has introduced a set of AI-powered capabilities designed to let clients query its datasets in natural language, integrate its data into their own AI environments, and generate executable analytical outputs from a prompt. The announcement positions the firm in an increasingly crowded field…
Beyond the Benchmark: Bloomberg Extends BCOM for a Fragmented Commodity Market
When the Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) was launched in 1998, the architecture made sense for its time. Liquidity in commodity futures was concentrated in North American contracts denominated in US dollars, and the methodology was built accordingly. Twenty-eight years later the way global commodity markets operate and the way institutional investors want to access them…
Recorded Webinar: From Data to Alpha: AI Strategies for Taming Unstructured Data
Unstructured data and text 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 signals, many firms are discovering that value is constrained not by models, but by the quality of the content, architecture,…
FPGA-Accelerated Engine from Exegy Will Power EU’s First Equities Consolidated Tape
EuroCTP, the joint venture of 15 European exchange groups selected by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to deliver the EU’s first real-time consolidated tape for shares and ETFs, has named Exegy as its core technology partner. Exegy’s FPGA-accelerated ticker plant will serve as the data normalisation and consolidation engine at the centre of…