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Northern Trust Asset Management turns ESG data into investable alpha
NTAM’s sustainability specialists and quant team collaborate to turn fragmented ESG inputs into investable factors.
The GPU compute index race begins
Major exchanges are partnering with a new crop of benchmark providers to create a tradable asset class around GPU compute.
After funding boost, Databento preps data expansion
After recently announcing $97 million in funding, the vendor is pressing ahead with global expansion plans.
SIX launches market data platform designed for accessibility
SIX Market Signal aims to bring price transparency, ease of use, and reduced administrative burden to the maddening world of market data.
EDMA begins rollout of AI certification framework
The EDM Association is expanding its CDMC framework to include analytics and AI.
Bloomberg acquires Canoe Intelligence, expanding private markets prowess
In a rare acquisition, the data giant is looking to add to its established private markets intelligence and add more functionality for client workflows.
BlackRock aims to transform data quality checks with AI
Engineers at the firm are experimenting with harnessing the power of AI to improve data quality, and early results are promising.
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
CJC speeds up data notifications with new ‘Hub’
The consultancy’s DN Hub aims to help investment firms automate the largely manual task of managing data notifications from exchanges and vendors.
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.
A new market data hope or an expanding Empire
Market data is now part of systemic infrastructure rather than just a commercial product. Tim Versteeg questions if market data is becoming too powerful to fail.
The public market data formula is coming to private markets
As interest in private markets grows, S&P Global, Bloomberg, and ICE are including increasingly valuable data in their offerings.
AI is coming for complexity … and trading depends on it
While AI may be able to recreate interfaces, the value is in messaging networks, low-latency data, and unique information flows.
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.
Broadridge’s agentic strategy takes its lessons from past AI winters
The Waters Wrap: Anthony looks at a real-world agentic project underway at the post-trade giant to see what others can learn.
GenAI and data quality converge at T. Rowe Price’s (Data) Lake Como
Jay Como was hired by T. Rowe Price in 2023, just as generative AI was rippling across the capital markets. Rather than accepting data quality as a hindrance to AI development, his team wants to use AI and agents to help solve this long-standing issue.
Market data cost increases slow, but prices still outmatch budgets
The market for market data is in flux as procurement teams are buoyed by C-suite attention, AI, and competitive tension. But providers are trying to protect their moat.
CME’s Duffy addresses outages as exchanges push toward 24/7 trading
As senior exchange execs fielded questions about overnight trading in equities, the theme of resiliency lingered.
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.
Data heads scratch heads over data quality headwinds
Bank and asset manager execs say the pressure is on to build AI tools. They also say getting the data right is crucial, but not everyone appreciates that.