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BMLL Market Lens: European Liquidity Maps

How you read the European tape depends on which viewpoint you take. This month only and in the context of ESMA...

1 May, 2024

Tick Size: To Change Or Not To Change?

Tick size is critical to the price formation and liquidity provision process and rarely changes. But when it does, granular Level 3 data can shed light on the impact of t...

3 April, 2024

€STR Wars: Attack of the Clones Part 2

As €STR continues to grow and gain market share, understanding the liquidity profile of competing €STR futures on ICE, CME and Eurex will be critical for market participa...

20 March, 2024

Mind the Gap: Should you buy historical data from a real time data vendor?

In this article, Ben Collins, our Head of Sales (EMEA & APAC), explains why firms no longer need to compromise on a lower-quality historical data service with incomplete ...

22 February, 2024

2023: Global Equity Trading Retrospective

Looking back over the past year in equity trading, it’s easy to forget the scale of transformations that took place. Whether it was volatility due to bank runs, federal r...

2 February, 2024

Stamping it out: Understanding the impact of recent stamp duty changes on the Chinese equity market

This article explores how the recent reduction in stamp duty in China has affected market behaviour.

23 January, 2024

Spot the Highs: Bitcoin ETFs 1 week later…

In this article, we look at the impact of Spot Bitcoin ETFs one week after their listing.

17 January, 2024

€STR Wars: Attack of the Clones

As €STR continues to grow and gain market share, understanding the liquidity profile of competing €STR futures on ICE, CME and Eurex will be critical for market participa...

21 November, 2023

Are spreads the right indicator of liquidity for your investment analysis?

Spreads are important when it comes to stock trading, as the tighter the spread, the more liquid the stock -- so the thinking goes. But simply relying on a stock’s displa...

8 November, 2023

Sounding the bell: understanding the closing auction for optimal execution in global equity markets

In this article, we compare and contrast closing auctions across different markets, and discuss how a better understanding can help best execution, signal generation and ...

3 October, 2023

How to compete in a complex landscape: Unleashing the power of big data for start-up hedge funds

In order to develop effective investment and trading strategies, quantitative or systematic hedge funds require robust infrastructure to carry out extensive research and ...

22 September, 2023

BMLL FINRA Data

BMLL has added FINRA data to its US suite of venues which already includes all major Exchange Groups in the US. Our visualization tool, BMLL Vantage, allows you to break ...

8 August, 2023

Granular tick data combined with cloud sharing allow for optimized execution analysis

Data is considered to be the new oil. In Capital Markets there is an increasing use of rich granular data to drive sophisticated execution analysis and point of execution...

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