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LSEG and Dow Jones Forge Multi-Year Data and News Partnership
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Dow Jones have embarked on a new, multi-year collaboration to provide enhanced data, news, and analytics services. Under the strategic partnership, Dow Jones’s news content will be accessible within LSEG Workspace, LSEG’s next generation workflow platform. Premium subscribers will have access to an extensive range of news stories…
Building Future Growth Around a Foundational Data Core: SIX’s Marion Leslie
There’s a neat symmetry in speaking to Marion Leslie, head of financial information at SIX after one of the busiest six months in the company’s recent history. SIX, a global data aggregator and operator of exchanges in its native Switzerland, as well as in Spain, has released a flurry of new data products since January,…
GLEIF Creates vLEI Advisory Board to Support Digital Verification Technology Use
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has formed an international, cross-industry advisory board to provide support for users of its vLEI digital verification technology. The vLEI Technical Advisory Board will help stakeholders seeking technical, governance and developmental support. Its membership is drawn from expertise within companies including Accelerate, Esatus and Prosapien and will be…
DiffusionData Partners with Options Technology to Integrate Real-Time Data Distribution
DiffusionData (formerly Push Technology), specialist provider of real-time data streaming solutions, has entered into a strategic partnership with Options Technology, the capital markets infrastructure and services provider. Through the collaboration DiffusionData’s real-time data distribution server, Diffusion, will be integrated with Options’ consolidated data service. The integration will streamline the controlled delivery of multi-asset class data…
Exegy and AMD Achieve Record-Breaking Tick-to-Trade Latency in STAC-T0 Benchmark
Exegy, the high-performance trading solutions provider, in collaboration with AMD, has achieved a record-breaking actionable latency of up to 13.9 nanoseconds in the latest STAC-T0 report, which evaluates tick-to-trade network-I/O latency. The milestone was accomplished using an off-the-shelf solution (AMD Alveo’s UL3524 FPGA accelerator card) with an asynchronous implementation for the critical path of the…
AI Startup BlueFlame Raises $5m for Alternative Markets Data Platform
BlueFlame AI, a start-up that harnesses artificial intelligence to help alternative market participants streamline their operational, regulatory and clerical processes, has raised US$5 million in a Series A funding round. The cash injection, which will be used to further develop BlueFlame’s AI platform, raises the company’s value to $50m, the New York- and London-based company…
Moody’s-MSCI Partnership Seen Impacting ESG Ratings Sector
Moody’s and MSCI have bolstered their ESG offerings with a tie-up that will see them share some of each other’s sustainability capabilities in a move that’s been predicted to concentrate global ESG ratings provision. As part of the arrangement, ratings provider Moody’s will gain access to MSCI’s data and models, which will eventually replace its…
Navigating the MiFIR Refit in 2024
The MiFIR Refit came into force in May to overhaul the European financial landscape with its focus on transparency and data integrity. Its ban on Payment for Order Flow aims to remove any vestiges of conflict of interest, while the consolidated tape is set to provide a comprehensive view of market data in a standardized…
Addressing the Global Refit with deltaconX
ESMA has opted for a big-bang approach to the EMIR Refit, as have the regulators behind similar mandates in the UK and across the Asia-Pacific region. The approach has left many firms scrambling to meet tight and onerous compliance deadlines. “It has been a humbling period for many firms, dealing with the isolating challenges of…
S&P Global Market Intelligence Updates Capital IQ Pro with Fixed Income Data and GenAI Summarisation
S&P Global Market Intelligence continues to update its Capital IQ Pro data and analytics platform with the addition of more than 19.4 million fixed income securities with full reference data, pricing and analytics. The company has also added GenAI-powered earnings transcript summarisation capabilities and enhanced private markets and segment data. The fixed income data includes…