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Firms get AI access to LSEG data via DataBP admin layer
LSEG has expanded its agreement with DataBP to enable customers’ AI-based tools to request and evaluate data from the exchange and maintain more comprehensive usage records.
Tech and data fragmentation irks enterprise risk managers
Often at the mercy of decisions made by other parts of the bank, ERM heads gripe at disparate systems, poor UX, and reporting gaps.
Cusip, MSCI make private markets identifiers; major banks back Osera; and more
The Waters Cooler: A recap of the major tech and data news from the past week in the capital markets.
Real-time market data managed services: Evolution, not revolution
Managed services help capital markets firms enhance resilience, scalability, security and agility while retaining strategic control.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 359: GPU compute market and Sibos
This week, Shen and Nyela talk about the GPU compute market and recent technology conferences.
When trading systems disagree: a deterministic architecture for event sequencing
Modern trading platforms execute millions of events at extraordinary speed, but speed alone does not ensure that every downstream system shares the same view of reality, says Gaurav Tiwari.
Rimes builds agents for exception management
The vendor aims to improve its data foundations to allow for greater agent autonomy.
How long will AI tokenomics matter?
The Waters Wrap: Banks and asset managers are rethinking the economics of AI. Wei-Shen examines how firms will manage token costs.
Intraday pricing: Fixed income’s next frontier
With firms looking to price fixed-income securities on an intraday basis, specialist pricing providers such as LSEG help address cost, complexity and time-to-market challenges.
Most innovative market data project/initiative—firmfact
Firmfact automates market‑data contracts, invoices and entitlements for banks and asset managers. Its AI reads documents, matches invoices line‑by‑line and verifies licences with minimal keying.
The great migration: Firms work to integrate ISO 20022
Banks and asset managers are working to adopt the new messaging standard, but it’s easier said than done.
People Moves: Euroclear, CME, BNP Paribas, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets tech and data space.
Best market data newcomer (vendor or product)—Octaura
Octaura’s Insights Platform is an integrated market intelligence and analytics offering purpose-built for the leveraged loan market.
Best market data provider (broker)—Fenics Market Data & Analytics
FMD’s Broker Data service draws on BGC Group’s global brokerage operations to provide pricing, trade and order-flow information across FX, rates, fixed income, commodities and derivatives.
Best evaluated pricing service provider/vendor—Infront
Infront Quant supplies independent, cross‑asset valuations with a “white‑box approach”, offering level 1 and 2 transparency.
IMD & IRD Awards 2026 winner’s interview—Smartstream
Smartstream wins Best reference data managed service at the IMD & IRD Awards 2026
TT acquires Trafix in 24/7 push, T+1 deadlines in the EU loom, and more
The Waters Cooler: A recap of the major tech and data news from the past week in the capital markets.
Best reference data integration vendor—Gresham
Gresham’s AI-native EDM Suite combines data from disparate sources and systems and provides user-firms with a single point of integration across the data life cycle.
PostSig, CJC team up to run data management for London broker
In the first such deployment between the vendors, CJC will act as an outsourced data administrator using PostSig’s technology to manage the firm’s data.
Goldman exec: Dec. 6 a ‘lighthouse’ for EU T+1 readiness
Officials from JP Morgan, the European Central Bank, the National Securities Depository, and Goldman Sachs explained how T+1 preparation needs to be different in the EU than in the US, while speaking at Sibos.
Month-long power glitch hits key APAC trade surveillance tool
Nasdaq’s alert functions were restored, but users say testing and calibration tools were still disrupted.
Best ESG data initiative—Bloomberg
Bloomberg’s Impact and Allocation dataset provides investors with a consistent means of assessing how proceeds are being deployed and what outcomes issuers report.
Best AI/machine learning data initiative—FactSet
FactSet unveiled its MCP server in December 2025, allowing secure, authorized access to the firm’s data from third‑party AI tools.
Best corporate actions data initiative—S&P Global Market Intelligence
MCA Plus consolidates specialist datasets, validation and operational oversight across five domains, reducing fragmented workflows and manual processes.
