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Regulators

Effective market oversight requires granular, reliable trading data. But fragmented feeds and infrastructure constraints limit analytical capability.

BMLL delivers nanosecond-precision historical order book data and analytics, enabling regulators to reconstruct events, assess policy impact, and conduct independent oversight with confidence.

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Key Capabilities Monitor Market Quality and Investigate Market Events

BMLL enables full transparency into market behaviour with precise reconstruction and analysis capabilities.

Market Abuse Investigation

Rebuild full order books at nanosecond resolution to analyse suspicious activity.

Policy Assessment

Model structural changes such as tick sizes, auctions, and matching rules.

Market Quality Monitoring

Track liquidity, spreads, and fragmentation across global markets.

Enforcement Evidence

Access exportable, auditable datasets to support investigations and enforcement.

BENEFITS & USE CASES How BMLL Supports Regulators

Platform Benefits Use Cases
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A secure cloud-based research environment that enables deep, scalable analysis of harmonised historical market data and pre-computed analytics without infrastructure overhead.

• Market reconstruction

• Enforcement investigations

• Policy simulation

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Delivers normalised datasets and pre-computed analytics directly into your environment for seamless integration into existing workflows.

• Surveillance engine feeds

• Large-scale data archiving

• Continuous monitoring

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A no-code analytics platform that provides instant visibility into market quality and liquidity dynamics.

• Daily market monitoring

• Rapid anomaly detection

• Executive dashboards

BMLL ECOSYSTEM Explore the BMLL Platform

BMLL Data Lab

Access to our full range historical harmonised and normalised level 3, equities, futures, options and prediction markets market data, built in analytics and compute that scales across CPU and GPU. Built  for alpha, insights, research, development and data science. Designed by quants.

BMLL Data Feed

Petabytes of historical market data and derived analytics, securely delivered to your environment by API, files, cloud warehouse or data platform. Level 3 order book granularity, normalised across venues and geographies, research-ready schema.

BMLL Vantage

Intuitive no code visual application bringing all market participants exceptional granular insights over 500 metrics derived from BMLL best in class Level 3.

LATEST INSIGHTS Case Studies and Client Insights

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24 June 2026

New data shows why the SEC’s OPR no longer matters

The SEC’s order protection rule has become superfluous, with 99% of orders that don’t benefit from it doing better than , or at, the national best bid offer.

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7 January 2026

The data beneath the surface: what the first month of Reg NMS changes actually revealed

The US equity market is undergoing major structural change, and early analysis of the first Reg NMS updates shows that while reported liquidity metrics have shifted, underlying liquidity has not - only the way it is measured. Changes to round lots, upcoming fractional share reporting, odd-lot NBBOs, and dynamic tick sizes mean firms can no longer rely on top-of-book data without risking flawed analysis and backtests. At the same time, structurally growing overnight and hidden liquidity underscore the need for granular Level 3 data to trade, manage risk, and generate alpha as the market heads into 2026.

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18 June 2025

Into the Close: Unpacking U.S. Closing Auction Dynamics and the Impact of the Russell Reconstitution

This article examines U.S. closing auctions and their behavior during the annual Russell Reconstitution. It shows how different exchanges (NYSE, Nasdaq, NYSE Arca) and order types (like NYSE D-Orders) impact price formation, and how auction volumes and imbalances spike on rebalance day. Understanding these dynamics and historical data is key for traders managing execution and risk into the 2025 reconstitution.

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