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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…
FutureSports and CME Look to Turn Sports Performance into a Tradable Asset Class
Professional sports could be about to acquire a new dimension as a financial asset class, with CME Group preparing to launch the first exchange-traded futures contracts based on the performance of National Hockey League (NHL) teams. The derivatives exchange plans to launch standard and micro-sized Hockey futures on September 28, pending regulatory review. The contracts…
S&P Global QnA: Adaptive Retrieval Smooths Data Access and Use
S&P Global Market Intelligence launched Adaptive Retrieval last month, promising to give clients greater flexibility in accessing and using the ratings giant’s data via their large language models (LLMs) and agents. Complementing S&P Global’s existing Deterministic Retrieval tool, which is built on the Kensho LLM-ready API, the latest innovation enables users to query and make…
Multiplying the Value of Unstructured Data
Financial institutions have spent years expanding the range of data available to investment, trading and risk teams. Increasingly, however, the challenge is not obtaining more data but making sense of what they already have. Unstructured data is estimated to account for 80-90% of the information generated withinfinancial institutions, encompassing everything from regulatory filings and earnings-call…
Opetek Launches ARIUS Reasoning Platform with Tier One Bank Piloting on FX Options Desks
Opetek has launched ARIUS, a quantitative reasoning platform for institutional trading desks, which is being piloted by traders and quants at a tier-one global investment bank across live FX options workflows in New York, London and Singapore. A second tier-one institution has been approved and onboarded, with go-live expected in the coming weeks. Designed for…
Europe’s Official EBBO Arrives in September: 130 Feeds, One Consolidated Tape
ESMA has officially authorised EuroCTP B.V. to operate Europe’s first consolidated tape provider (CTP) for shares and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). With a go-live date set for 14 September – just ahead of ESMA’s 30 September operational deadline – European equity markets will, for the first time, have an officially designated consolidated reference price. Operating under…
BMLL and SIGMA AI Partner to Benchmark Live Market Flow Against Historical Order Book Data
BMLL and SIGMA AI have announced a partnership combining BMLL’s historical Level 3, 2 and 1 order book data with SIGMA’s “Quant in the Cloud” streaming platform, producing an analytics layer that scores live market flow against historical benchmarks. The stated use cases are real-time anomaly detection, market regime classification and execution benchmarking, with anticipated…
S&P Global Launches Adaptive Retrieval as Agentic Workflows Reshape Data Access
S&P Global has launched Adaptive Retrieval, a service allowing customer AI agents and large language models to access and assemble licensed S&P Global data through natural language queries. It sits alongside the existing Deterministic Retrieval method, and both are now offered through a single interface, the S&P Global AI Data Portal. Deterministic Retrieval, built on…
The Performance Gap: How Data and Automation Are Separating Fixed Income Winners and Laggards
By Eugene Grinberg, Co-Founder and CEO, SOLVE. For decades, fixed-income markets rewarded opacity. Firms with the right relationships, proprietary data, or pricing advantages could generate outsized returns on a small number of well-timed trades. That model is breaking down. Fee compression, regulatory transparency requirements, and an explosion in available data have changed the basis of…