IMD & IRD Awards 2026: All the winners and why they won
The 31 category winners of this year’s Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data Awards
Below are the category winners of the Inside Market Data & Inside Reference Data Awards 2026.
Bloomberg, LSEG, S&P Global Market Intelligence, and Exegy won two categories each in this year’s awards. Click on the links in the winners’ names for information about why they won their respective categories.
- Best AI/machine learning data initiative – FactSet
- Best alternative data initiative – S&P Global Market Intelligence
- Best alternative data provider/vendor – Spatial Risk Systems
- Best cloud-based data provider – LSEG
- Best corporate actions data initiative – S&P Global Market Intelligence
- Best corporate actions data provider – SIX. Click on this link for a video interview with Yogita Mehta.
- Best data analytics initiative – RBC Capital Markets
- Best data analytics provider/vendor – Bloomberg
- Best data feed management solution – BIQH
- Best data governance solution – PostSig
- Best enterprise data management initiative – FINBOURNE Technology. Click on this link for a video interview with Toby Glaysher.
- Best enterprise data management provider/vendor – Rimes
- Best ESG data initiative – Bloomberg
- Best ESG data provider/vendor – OpenCorporates
- Best evaluated pricing service provider/vendor – Infront
- Best low-latency data or technology provider/vendor – Exegy
- Best market data managed service – BCCG
- Best market data newcomer (vendor or product) – Octaura
- Best market data provider (broker) – Fenics Market Data & Analytics
- Best market data provider (vendor) – LSEG
- Best private markets data provider – MSCI
- Best real-time market data initiative – Exegy
- Best reference data initiative – New Change FX
- Best reference data integration vendor – Gresham
- Best reference data managed service – Smartstream. Click on this link for a video interview with Pallavi Dongree.
- Best reference data provider – Exchange Data International
- Best regulatory reporting solution/initiative – Qomply
- Best research provider/vendor – Orbit
- Best risk data aggregation initiative – RQD* Clearing
- Most innovative market data project/initiative – firmfact
- Most innovative regulatory solution/initiative – Opensee
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Best private markets data provider—MSCI
MSCI’s Private Capital Transparency standardises manager‑reported and independent private‑asset data, linking private and public markets.
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.
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.
