Waters Rankings 2026: Best low-latency data feed provider—LSEG

Overview

LSEG Real-Time – Direct is a fully managed service that delivers low-latency, full-depth market data to clients directly from global exchanges. It addresses the complexity of building and operating direct feeds by providing normalized, enriched data that is easy to integrate and is consistently deployed across environments, enabling firms to move faster, act with certainty, and scale with confidence.

The solution

LSEG Real-Time – Direct delivers a fully managed direct feed service with normalized, enriched market data and flexible deployment options. By removing the need to build and maintain low-latency infrastructure, it simplifies integration, ensures data consistency across systems, and enables firms to move faster, act with certainty, and scale efficiently.

Differentiators  

What makes LSEG’s Real-Time – Direct offering unique is its combination of low-latency delivery, fully managed infrastructure, and a unified, normalized data model that is consistent across markets. Flexible deployment, integration with LSEG’s data ecosystem, and enterprise-wide connectivity help firms simplify complexity and scale their real-time data usage. These capabilities allow clients to deploy Real-Time – Direct across multiple platforms to support a variety of use-cases and latency profiles.

Recent goals

Recent developments include expanded coverage across global venues, including bolstered presence throughout the US equities and options markets, and across Asia-Pacific—e.g., Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Additional coverage is complemented by enhanced hosted delivery options and continued enrichment of data and advancements in deployment flexibility and integration.

Product roadmap

The Real-Time – Direct roadmap focuses on enabling more flexible consumption of low-latency data, supporting evolving AI and analytics workflows, and strengthening integration across enterprise data environments. This will help firms adapt to increasingly complex trading strategies while simplifying how real-time data is accessed and used at scale.