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Bloomberg Adds AI Coding Assistant to BQuant to Accelerate Financial Data Analysis
Bloomberg has introduced BQuant Assistant, a conversational AI coding tool integrated into its BQuant analytics platform, enabling financial professionals to use natural-language instructions to develop investment strategies, query financial datasets and build analytical applications without requiring extensive programming expertise. Available through BQuant Desktop and BQuant Enterprise, the assistant operates within the platform’s existing Python development…
TRG Screen Launches Activity Monitor to Improve Visibility into Market Data Terminal Usage
TRG Screen, the market data and subscription cost management solutions provider, has launched Activity Monitor, a new capability designed to help financial institutions identify underutilised market data terminals, optimise licensing arrangements and reduce expenditure through more granular analysis of how employees use terminal services. Announced on 29 October, the solution captures function-level activity, allowing market…
Laying the Data Foundations for Alpha: How Fragmented Data Erodes Hedge Fund Performance – and What to Do About It
Hedge fund performance is increasingly won or lost on the quality of the data driving the model, rather than on the sophistication of the model itself. Data fragmentation, wherein the same underlying economic reality is represented inconsistently across providers, systems and time, goes beyond an administrative nuisance to become a direct drag on business performance….
FIX Trading Community Calls for Clearer Market Data Standards in UK Equities Reform
The FIX Trading Community has called for greater consistency, transparency and operational resilience in UK equity markets in responses to two Financial Conduct Authority consultations covering market structure reform and the proposed equity consolidated tape. Its recommendations include more granular liquidity reporting that distinguishes trading phases, execution mechanisms and genuinely addressable volumes, alongside clearer identification…
LSEG to Acquire Octus for $3.5 Billion in Major Expansion of Credit Data and Analytics
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has agreed to acquire Octus, the New York-based provider of credit intelligence, data and workflow solutions, for $3.535 billion in cash, significantly expanding its presence in private and illiquid credit markets. The acquisition will bring Octus’ proprietary credit data and analytics into LSEG’s existing fixed income offering, providing institutional customers…
Substantive Research Finds AI Driving Market Data Costs Higher as Investment Research Budgets Stall
Two new studies from Substantive Research reveal contrasting commercial pressures across the financial information industry, with market data vendors seeking substantial premiums for AI-enabled access while investment research providers struggle to translate growing machine consumption into additional revenue. The findings highlight how artificial intelligence is reshaping the economics of financial information, raising questions about pricing…
Zema Global Expands Marex Partnership to Broaden Energy and Commodity Market Data Coverage
Zema Global has expanded its partnership with Marex, extending the range of energy, environmental and commodity market datasets available through its Decisioning Infrastructure platform. The agreement provides Zema customers with additional pricing, forward curve, index and historical data covering crude oil, refined products, freight, petrochemicals, natural gas liquids and biofuels across Europe, North America and…
S&P Global Expands AI Data Strategy with Visible Alpha, Credit Ratings and Enhanced ChatIQ
S&P Global is extending its AI-enabled data delivery capabilities with the addition of Visible Alpha consensus estimates and credit ratings to its AI Data Portal, alongside expanded conversational AI functionality within Capital IQ Pro. The announcements reflect a broader strategy to make its financial datasets accessible through external AI applications and agents while embedding AI…
Recorded Webinar: Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Markets: What the Data Really Shows
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 buy-side and sell-side institutions across the USA, UK and Canada, reveals a market in transition: from…
Recorded Webinar: Modernising Equities Trading Infrastructure: Architecture, Resilience and the Economics of Change
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 of the platforms that still underpin the equities industry were built for a different era –…