United Kingdom (UK)
The Big Bang—a complex 40-year data journey yet to reach its destination
In this guest column, Finbourne’s Gus Sekhon reflects on the deregulation and privatization of the London Stock Exchange and what it meant for data.
Citi reveals Custody+, AI API security scare, 23/5 trading in Canada, and more
The Waters Cooler: A recap of the major tech and data news from the past week in the capital markets.
AI startups get big-name investors, SEC denies 24X’s exemption request, and more
The Waters Cooler: A recap of the major tech and data news from the past week in the capital markets.
Stopgaps and fail-safes: How trading vendors guard against rogue AI agents
TradeStation’s newest trading tool, Titan-X, uses agentic tools to help plan, execute, and collect data on trades.
People Moves: Capital Bank, BMLL, Cboe Europe, Options Technology, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets tech and data space.
Red alert: how Nasdaq’s Smarts became surveillance blind spot
Software that looks for shifty trades has been asleep on the job, affecting alerts for hundreds of products.
EU exchanges shake up data policies ahead of new pricing rules
As each EU exchange interprets the RCB regulation differently, market data users across the industry are left to grapple with the new pricing policies changes
UK’s bond consolidated tape goes live
ETS Connect UK has spent the past month ensuring the technology, compliance, and operations are in place.
Spoiler alert: managing market data is a bad case for AI
The IMD Wrap: A recent conversation between Max and one of his sources highlights the uses of different mechanisms to manage one of their most expensive assets.
Data industry spend hits $50B for first time in new report
A new product by BCG Expand will track market data vendor size and market share as it seeks to show data users where the market is heading.
Tradefeedr pairs with BMLL to expand FX offering into equities, futures
Tradefeedr will also use BMLL’s historical data to help build out an LLM-powered chatbot.
After the shuttering of Wilshire Indexes, the indexes space is a little tighter
The IMD Wrap: Max analyzes the winding up of Wilshire Indexes, a venture not yet three years old, and what the move means for the index industry and its consumers.
Firms look to decommission legacy tech and embrace a range of cloud-based tools
A survey of capital markets firms reveals a demand for cloud-native analytics and increased adoption of AI technology. However, challenges around cost and migration complexity persist when it comes to cloud migration.
Wilshire Indexes shutters, transfers operations
Investment firm Wilshire has told clients that production and publication of all indexes not already sold or returned to the asset manager’s ownership will be discontinued.
CME rankles market data users with licensing changes
The exchange began charging for historically free end-of-day data in 2025, angering some users.
Banks split over AI risk management
Model teams hold the reins, but some argue AI is an enterprise risk.
Despite regulatory thaw in US, major questions remain globally for 2026
From crypto and tokenization to the CAT to consolidated tapes to T+1’s advancement, the regulatory space will be front and center in the New Year.
As AI pressures mount, banks split on how to handle staffing
Benchmarking: Over the next 12 months, almost a third of G-Sib respondents said they plan to decrease headcount in their data function.
CME, LSEG align on market data licensing in GenAI era
The two major exchanges say they are licensing the use case—not the technology.
Data infrastructure must keep pace with pension funds’ private market ambitions
As private markets grow in the UK, Keith Viverito says the infrastructure that underpins the sector needs to be improved, or these initiatives will fail.
Buy-side data heads push being on ‘right side’ of GenAI
Data heads at Man Group and Systematica Investments explain how GenAI has transformed the quant research process.