Data
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.
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.
Rimes builds agents for exception management
The vendor aims to improve its data foundations to allow for greater agent autonomy.
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 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.
Best corporate actions data provider—SIX
SIX has built extensive databases, broad asset-class coverage and a range of tools designed to help firms manage increasingly complex corporate actions workflows.
The impact of market data and alt data converging
The Waters Wrap: As firms combine traditional data sources with proprietary research and alt-data signals, Max has some questions about where the data market is headed.
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.
TS Imagine launches new agentic platform
TSIQ can act based on client queries, using built-in agent “personas” that can be modified by users on a case-by-case basis.
Waters Rankings 2026 winner’s interview—Rimes
Rimes’ president and CEO discusses the firm’s highly sought-after win
After funding boost, Databento preps data expansion
After recently announcing $97 million in funding, the vendor is pressing ahead with global expansion plans.
Reshaping risk and trading workflows
LSEG’s strategic partnership with Microsoft is reshaping how financial services are built, delivered and experienced
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.
Federal court moves to certify class in Cusip antitrust suit
The SDNY judge has handed a procedural win to plaintiffs, allowing swaths of end-user firms and third-party data vendors to join the class action.
The market’s most valuable asset?
DTCC’s Tim Lind writes that using data effectively can provide the intelligence needed to improve investment performance, reduce risk, and inform strategic decision‑making.
The complexity of using AI to tackle compliance
The Waters Wrap: Law firms are introducing new tools to help with regulatory compliance, potentially encroaching on regtech vendors’ territory, Wei-Shen writes.
Cyber audit leaves Eiopa with a credibility problem
The Dora supervisor charged with overseeing critical tech vendors has been critiqued for IT security failings.
ICE buys MarketAxess to create ‘common rails’ for fixed income
The deal, which is expected to close early next year, will further establish ICE in the fixed-income market.
UK asset manager fixes data then brings in AI
Now that Omba Advisory & Investments has consolidated its data, it can leverage new AI tools.
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.