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23, April, 2026

How Options Flows Move Equity Markets: Insights from High-Quality Historical Data

In this analysis, we demonstrate how you can capture these interconnected market behaviours by combining two complementary datasets: SpiderRock's options volatility surface data to estimate dealer gamma positioning, and BMLL's high-frequency equity market data.

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21 April, 2026

Decoding Geopolitical Risk: A Level 3 Market Microstructure Analysis of Crude Oil at the Start of the Iran War

Geopolitical risk in financial markets is typically understood as a macro phenomenon - stress escalates, supply is threatened, prices spike. But the order book tells a different story. Using BMLL Level 3 data, containing every insert, cancel, and execution at every price level, we show tha...

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19 March, 2026

How Building an Equities Business Changed Our View of Liquidity

Liquidity isn’t just trading volume—it’s fragmented and often hidden across multiple venues. Building an equities business revealed that relying on traditional data gives an incomplete picture, so understanding liquidity requires a broader, more holistic view.

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26 November, 2021

A managed analytics service, exclusively for exchanges

Innovation is the only way forward. The BMLL EMPA managed service enables a deep understanding of liquidity dynamics and well-informed benchmarking

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7 October, 2021

Changing market states on the newly expanded DAX40

Over €3.8 billion traded across European venues in the 10 names added to the DAX-30, nearly a 5 times increase over the 90-day average, ahead of the DAX-30 rebalance.

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23 September, 2021

Trading InfoSnack: Stale Prices and the Price of Being Stale

Dark trading mechanisms have become an integral part of the European liquidity landscape. In this context, the PBBO midpoint is a core benchmark. The equity experts at SIX Swiss Exchange evaluate...

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14 September, 2021

The Safety of Maths: Integrating historical pricing data and analytics capabilities into EMS for buy-side traders

In order to meet the buy-side’s appetite for historical pricing data, a fintech collaboration between BMLL and FlexTrade seamlessly integrates BMLL’s Level 3 data and analytics capabilities into FlexTrade’s execution management system [...]

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5 August, 2021

Asymmetric Market Impact - can it reveal behavioural strategies in volatile markets?

BMLL explores how in times of high volatility, market impact exhibits a behavioural change and how that can be leveraged by participants.

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22 July, 2021

Understanding Market Impact - can understanding correlated Market Impact improve execution?

BMLL examines how leveraging the full depth order book can result in better trading decisions.

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16 July, 2021

After the Fact: Football, Hangovers and the Capital Markets

BMLL explores the impact winning or losing football matches has on the capital markets

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1 July, 2021

Closing Auction Volumes - what affects closing auction volume share?

How trading behaviour and market conditions impact the share of auction volume traded

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17 June, 2021

Double Volume Cap – what is happening below the surface?

What is the impact of the Double Volume Cap (DVC) removal on dark venue share of trading?

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3 June, 2021

A new chapter for European execution analysis?

Masami Johnston, BMLL, examines why the time for robust execution analysis in Europe is now. First published in TABB Forum, June 2021

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28 April, 2021

Getting granular with data

An increasing number of market participants are depending on more granular quality data to improve alpha generation and manage risk exposures.

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4 March, 2021

Taking stock: Buy-side data and analytics at a point of change

In our latest survey we set out to explore how market participants use Level 3 data and analytics in their daily trading decisions.

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