ABOUT WORKING WITH BMLL
BMLL is an award-winning data and analytics company operating at the cutting edge of Capital Markets. We provide exceptional innovation to our clients and solve some of the most complex and challenging problems in big data. Our mission is to unlock the predictive power of pricing data and offer our clients the insights they need to understand how markets behave and make more informed decisions.
BMLL has been recognised for fostering an exceptional workplace. It is proud of its inclusive and collaborative culture which encourages teamwork and gives everyone a stake in the firm’s future.
CURRENT ROLES
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WORKING IN THE WORLD OF DATA SCIENCE
Dr Elliot Banks, Chief Product Officer at BMLL, discusses how the pursuit of knowledge in new and unexplored fields shaped his journey through education and work, and led to him entering the then-emerging world of Data Science.
AN EXCEPTIONAL WORKPLACE
BMLL is the winner of Harrington Starr's ‘The Top 1% Workplace Awards 2023’ ‘Best Sales Professionals’ award, and is highly commended for ‘Best Workplace for Talent Investment’. Further, we are delighted that our CEO, Paul Humphrey is the winner of the ‘Top 1% Leader of the Year’ award. This follows being highly commended for 'Best Technology Team' in 2022 and 'Best Workplace for Technologists' in 2021.
OUR INDUSTRY ON THE CUSP OF CHANGE
BMLL is proud to be recognised by Harrington Starr as one of the ‘Most Influential Financial Technology Firms’, paving the way for exceptional industry innovation.
We have established that our product solves the specific problems our markets face, and we are gaining new clients across global banking, hedge funds, broking and exchanges. Existing clients continue to grow with us and are using an increasing number of our services, and we are expanding as a result.
In order to be closer to our clients in the City, we recently moved into contemporary new offices in Old Street, London, otherwise known as the ‘Silicon Roundabout’, the beating heart of Fintech.
Read about how BMLL is positioning itself for growth, building a diverse pool of talent, ESG and sustainable trading, and the value it places on wellness.
BEST WORKPLACE FOR TECHNOLOGISTS
BMLL named "Best Workplace for Technologists" in The Financial Technologist Top 1% Workplace Awards 2024.
We are proud to have been singled out from over 100 nominees, and recognised for fostering an exceptional workplace for technologists. The judges highlighted access to market leading tools used to solve complex problems in a dynamic high-profile sector. They also noted the open culture at BMLL which encourages teamwork and gives everyone a stake in the firm's future.
What our clients and partners say
“BMLL allowed us to bypass the complex and costly process of obtaining data from exchanges. As a result, we could focus our efforts on conducting research to determine usefulness and relevance of data to our specific needs. Having immediate access to the data eliminated any delays that would have otherwise hindered our research efforts. By removing these barriers, our team could dive straight into analyzing the data and extracting results.”
Gershie Vann, CEO and Founder, Aleto.
“BMLL has mastered the heavy lifting around the data normalisation process. Second, it's a neutral provider which makes our service even more credible, and it's a cost-efficient service from our perspective. Lastly, and I would say most importantly, BMLL provides excellent quality of support.”
Marc Berthoud, Head of Exchange Data Strategy, SIX
“Our clients can easily navigate fragmented markets. SIX gains immediate insight on the performance of the liquidity providers”
Marc Berthoud, Head of Exchange Data Strategy, SIX (on BMLL as the data provider for delivering the Swiss EBBO Service)
“As Europe’s 7th largest exchange, we are constantly looking to enhance the liquidity and execution opportunities for our Members. By using BMLL Level 3 Data and advanced analytics we are now able to engage with our Members to compare their trading dynamics on our exchange versus their peer group and to demonstrate that Aquis offers superior trading outcomes for both passive and aggressive strategies. In addition, we are able to evidence our ability to consistently be present at the ‘European Best Bid and Offer’ (EBBO), regularly ranking in the top 2 across European exchanges.”
David Stevens, Chief Revenue Officer of Aquis
“We looked at a number of historical data vendors, and soon realized BMLL is in a class of its own. Accessing BMLL data now enables our clients to do strategy back-testing on high-fidelity data and execute using our real-time data. What sets BMLL apart is the way the data is sourced, saved and curated. We are always looking to support our clients as they develop their businesses, working with experts in various fields such as BMLL; with the recent announcement of our newest ticker plant, our clients performing quantitative trading strategies have the best available tools for processing real-time market data, now with the possibility of acquiring comprehensive historical data and analytics.”
David Taylor, CEO of Exegy
"Optiver traders, quantitative researchers and developers rely on historical data to shape our pricing strategies, making data science and research a key part of our mission to improve markets. The high quality of BMLL's data, their advanced analytics tools and their best-in-class team have together significantly improved our ability to generate insights that influence our strategies. We believe these benefits can extend beyond our firm and provide substantial value to other market participants as well."
Pat Cooney, Managing Director of Optiver Europe
"In 2022, we selected BMLL as a partner. By leveraging BMLL’s order book analytics and advanced insights we better understand market microstructure and optimise our trading strategies. Clients will notice improved routing capabilities in the US and EU."
Bobbie Port, Kepler Cheuvreux Head of Electronic Distribution (on Kepler Cheuvreux’s win of ‘Best Electronic Equities Trading’ at the European Market’s Choice Awards 2024)
“Marcos Carreira, PhD Candidate from the Quantitative Regulation chair at École Polytechnique, and I have worked with many different data providers, and the BMLL Data Lab is one of the cleanest historical data products we have seen. It is very easy to use, and the documentation and support are superb. The book reconstruction will be of great help, especially with all the interruptions to continuous trading that we have seen in the market.”
Mathieu Rosenbaum, Senior Professor, École Polytechnique
“Berenberg’s Data Science and Algorithmic Engineering teams draw on a multitude of sources, including partnering with BMLL, leveraging their Level 3 data to layer market event datasets with client trade data by linking unique order IDs via matching engine timestamps. Level 3 data draws insight into cancellations, amends, quote submissions, order queue details and unfilled orders. This allows Berenberg’s TIA to deliver a robust A|B testing environment across 5 years of market and trade data to efficiently optimise algorithmic performance”.
Jason Rand, Global Head of Electronic Trading and Distribution, Berenberg
“The partnership between Berenberg and BMLL is about democratising access to Europe’s most comprehensive analytics engines and largest data lakes. Overlaying millions of child orders on top of billions of market data points no longer requires an army of quantitative researchers or data engineers. It’s about mapping complex relationships, standardising benchmarks, and giving all market participants, large and small, the chance to produce better outcomes for their clients,”
Jason Rand, Global Head of Electronic Trading and Distribution, Berenberg
“Jefferies has teamed up with analytics provider BMLL Technologies and deploys cloud computing capabilities to carry out detailed analysis, allowing the team to understand on a granular level what happens to the order book when they trade passively or aggressively.
“We’ve been doing that analysis for a very long time, but it’s now at a far greater level of granularity. We can see which orders move when we cross the spread, for example, rather than knowing that some orders move. We can track those and see where they came from. It enables much smarter decisions, and using that within the algo constructions process is a huge priority for our team.”
Ben Springett, European Head of Electronic and Program Trading, Jefferies
“Our partnership with BMLL is an excellent example of a big data, cloud use-case for financial markets. By making BMLL’s data and analytics available via the Snowflake Marketplace we deliver on increasing customer demand for core analytics and analytical workflows. By partnering with the best content providers like BMLL, we empower firms to access the best, large scale content without the increasingly unnecessary headache of on-premise storage and costly data movement while enabling them to focus resources on value add initiatives.”
Harsha Kapre, Snowflake Ventures