Market data
European firms prime for lopsided settlement in North America and at home
With T+1 imminent in North America and increasingly likely to traverse the Atlantic, operations and trading professionals in Europe are fighting on two fronts.
As crypto ETFs become reality, benchmark providers take center stage
The SEC’s approval of the first spot bitcoin ETFs will expose a growing number of traditional market participants to the maturing world of crypto data, a moment that some—such as CF Benchmarks, BlackRock’s benchmark provider—have been eagerly awaiting.
The IMD Wrap: Blowing tires, engines and budgets in F1 and financial data
There are many similarities between Formula One and financial data—except when it comes to how much you can spend and how much spend contributes to success.
FCA declines to directly regulate market data prices
A year-long investigation by the UK regulator to determine whether competition is hindered in the wholesale data markets has concluded with its decision not to directly regulate much-maligned data pricing and licensing structures.
Vanguard cautiously explores neural networks for alt data analysis
John Ameriks, head of Vanguard’s Quantitative Equity Group, explains the rationale behind dataset selection and how the group has been using machine learning.
BMLL to expand coverage to Level 1 and Level 2 historical data
The London-based market data provider is aiming to provide higher quality data than its new competitors, but it faces an uphill battle.
CME moves core data to the cloud, readies new data products, analytics
The exchange group has migrated its core data to the cloud as part of its 10-year partnership with Google Cloud, and is now looking ahead to further migrations and leveraging the cloud to power new data products.
Data isn’t king if the ‘royal’ C-suite doesn’t buy in
Voice of the CTO: As banks strive to take advantage of cutting-edge tools, the basics of proper data management and governance are too often overlooked. Banks are learning that a CDO can help gain favor with the C-suite.
Waters Wavelength Podcast: Tim Baker on Cusip lawsuit, data copyrights, and innovation in market data
Expero’s Tim Baker joins the podcast to talk about the ongoing Cusip suit and regulatory intervention in the market data space.
TMX advances plans to launch US equities ATS
New trading solutions and market data sources underpin the Canadian exchange group's growth strategy.
Real-time and historical market data: Priorities, preferences and the cloud
This paper, commissioned by LSEG, focuses on firms’ current market data priorities, the asset classes and geographies they are looking to focus on in the near future, and the benefits they can expect by moving their historical market data storage and…
‘When, not if’: EU plots course for T+1 transition
Not everyone saw eye to eye at a European Commission roundtable discussing how to shorten settlement cycles, but most participants recognized the need to make the transition to T+1.
The IMD Wrap: Market data budgeting for 8-year-olds
Balancing a market data budget is challenging enough, but it’s even harder when cost pressures are tight, and when fees and discounts create extra confusion.
Trade reporting challenges require data re-think
Data accuracy issues are hampering some firms’ regulatory reporting abilities. So why aren’t data professionals more involved? And how can compliance costs be turned into revenue drivers?
GenAI or replatforming? Bank CTOs disagree on budgetary spend
Voice of the CTO: In part one of a five-part series, several bank technologists discuss where they are looking to spend their budgets this year, and what hurdles stand in the way of experimenting with generative AI.
Domain-specific AI: the hot topic of 2024?
Generative AI is increasingly being applied to specific domains within finance. But experts are divided on whether targeted models will take over from their general-purpose cousins.
Price gouging? New study finds market data providers consistently inconsistent in pricing, discounts
As the industry awaits the FCA’s findings from its Wholesale Market Data Study, end-users pin their hopes on the prospect of relief. But a new study from Substantive Research details the enormous pricing disparities that must be tackled.
S&P Global: Delivering quality data faster to private market managers
S&P Global Market Intelligence won Best buy-side managed data service at the Buy‑Side Technology Awards 2023. Kevin Guy, head of iLEVEL Managed Data Services at S&P Global, discusses the service, its benefits and key differentiators.
S&P Global’s EDM platform continues its evolutionary course
S&P Global Market Intelligence won the Best buy-side data management product category at the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2023 thanks to its successful EDM offering. Neslihan Yegul, Emea head of commercial strategy for software solutions at S&P GMI,…
Waters Wrap: A glimpse of 2024 through the looking glass of 2023
Anthony examines some of the biggest stories from the past year to preview what might be ahead.
The IMD Wrap: AI efforts will force renewed focus on data in 2024
Machine learning and generative AI offer a tremendous opportunity to help users obtain more insights from raw data, but these tools first need perfect datasets on which to base their decisions.
Quant shop preps NLP-powered index for physical climate risk
Sharp rise in extreme weather events prompts PGIM Quant to aim for better climate-risk pricing
Waters Wrap: Big Tech’s capital markets expansion continues
Anthony looks back at some of the major cloud and AI projects involving the likes of Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and/or Snowflake in 2023.
Breaking news: How the Grinch stole data
Will the greedy Grinch get his comeuppance for trying to steal the Whos’ valuable market data at Christmas? Max Bowie investigates.