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BMLL and Features Analytics Target Surveillance Benchmarking with Level 3 Order Book Data
BMLL and Features Analytics have partnered to develop new trade surveillance benchmarking and market integrity analytics built on reconstructed historical order book data, signalling a shift towards more measurable, performance-driven surveillance frameworks. Under the agreement, Features Analytics will build and commercialise surveillance benchmarking products on top of BMLL’s harmonised historical Level 3, 2 and 1…
Standard Chartered and LSEG Partner for Enterprise Data and Analytics Consolidation
LSEG has entered into a multi-year agreement with Standard Chartered to provide the bank with enterprise-scale access to multi-asset class data, news, and analytics. The collaboration focuses on delivering a unified data environment with consistent rights management across the organisation’s global footprint. The agreement is designed to enhance Standard Chartered’s operating model by consolidating market…
TNS Enhances Data Usage Optimizer With New Interactive Customer Portal
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has launched an interactive customer portal for its Data Usage Optimizer (DUO) platform, providing buy-side and sell-side firms with on-demand tools to manage market data expenses. This update follows the initial 2024 launch of DUO and aims to simplify the process of identifying unused subscriptions. By converting complex vendor entitlement files…
LSEG and Bank of America Target AI-ready, Governed Data Integration in Multi-Year Partnership
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Bank of America have agreed a multi-year strategic partnership centred on embedding governed, AI-ready data and analytics directly into the bank’s core workflows. Rather than a distribution agreement focused on access, the collaboration reflects a broader architectural shift: integrating unified, rights-cleared content, analytics and risk intelligence across advisory, trading,…
SOLVE Launches AI-Powered Confidence Score for Corporate Bond Pricing
SOLVE, the provider of fixed income market data, has introduced Confidence Score for Corporate Bonds to its SOLVE Px™ platform. This AI-driven metric quantifies pricing uncertainty on a scale of 1 to 10, providing a transparent layer to predictive pricing for over 250,000 investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds. The tool translates complex model uncertainty into…
Exegy to Launch First Consolidated Overnight BBO Feed for After-Hours Trading Venues
Exegy is set to introduce what it describes as the first consolidated Overnight Best Bid and Offer (OBBO) feed covering all three US after-hours equity trading venues, addressing a gap in overnight price discovery as markets move toward extended and near-continuous trading models. The new feed, due to be launched within the next few weeks…
Barclays Deepens Market Data Strategy with Multiyear FactSet Agreement
Barclays has agreed a multiyear strategic collaboration with FactSet that marks a shift in how the bank is approaching market data and analytics infrastructure as part of a broader enterprise-level data strategy. The arrangement will see Barclays integrate a broad suite of FactSet products, data and technology solutions into its workflows to support data-driven decision-making…
Bloomberg Introduces Alternative Data Entitlements, Bringing Premium Datasets Deeper into Research Workflows
Bloomberg has introduced Alternative Data Entitlements within its ALTD platform on the Bloomberg Terminal, reflecting a broader institutional shift towards embedding alternative data directly into established research workflows rather than treating it as a standalone input. The new entitlement capability enables Bloomberg Terminal users to access faster, more granular alternative data analytics from specialist providers…
When Margin Moves Upstream: How TT is Reworking Trading Decisions After the OpenGamma Deal
More than a month after completing its acquisition of OpenGamma, Trading Technologies is beginning to articulate how the deal is intended to change the way firms think about margin, capital efficiency, and trading decision-making. Rather than positioning margin as a downstream risk or treasury concern, TT is now framing capital efficiency as a front-office variable…
Market Data Distribution Parity: Redefining Fairness
By Scott Schweitzer, Independent Consultant, LDA Technologies. Electronic exchanges play a vital role in the financial industry, providing a robust and trusted forum for trading and execution without issue. But even so, the technology available to exchanges has traditionally led to discrepancies in data distribution, from microseconds to nanoseconds, which can be critical for latency-sensitive…