BMLL wins ‘Best Analytics Data Provider’ at the Data Management Insight Awards USA 2025

London / New York, 19 September 2025: We are delighted to announce that BMLL has been awarded ‘Best Analytics Data Provider’ at the Data Management Insight Awards USA 2025. These awards recognise vendors providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across the USA.

BMLL won ‘Best Analytics Data Provider’ following a year of significant milestones and delivering on their ambitious strategic growth plans to democratise access to high-quality, historical data and analytics, at scale.

Milestones include:

  • BMLL’s historical market data covers more than 100 trading venues, spanning global equities, ETFs, futures, and US equity options. Its equities offering now covers 100% of the MSCI World Index.

  • 40+ global datasets were added in the last 12 months, covering APAC, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Europe, India and the Middle East; all available within the BMLL suite of products.

  • In November 2024, BMLL expanded its data coverage to include OPRA options data. Six years of nanosecond unconflated OPRA options data is available globally, via BMLL Data Lab and BMLL Data Feed, via AWS S3, and at multiple levels of conflation that suit clients’ specific requirements.

In addition, in October 2024, BMLL secured a $21 million strategic investment in a round led by Optiver, with participation from CTC Venture Capital and existing investors. Optiver also joined BMLL’s ever-expanding universe of customers

Paul Humphrey, Chief Executive Officer, BMLL, said: “Winning ‘Best Analytics Data Provider’ at the Data Management Insight Awards USA recognises the innovation and dedication of the BMLL team. The US is a key growth market for us, and this award highlights the impact of our expanded coverage and continued investment in the region. We bring high-quality data and analytics to more market participants than ever, helping them understand market behaviour, optimise strategies, and generate alpha more predictably."

About BMLL

BMLL Technologies is the leading, independent provider of harmonised, Level 3, 2 and 1 historical data and analytics to the world’s most sophisticated capital market participants, covering global equities, ETFs and futures and US equity options.

BMLL offers banks, brokers, asset managers, hedge funds, global exchange groups, academic institutions and regulators immediate and flexible access to the most granular Level 3, 2 and 1 T+1 order book data and advanced pre and post-trade analytics. BMLL gives users the ability to understand market behaviour, accelerate research, optimise trading strategies and generate alpha more predictably.

Founded in 2014 in the machine learning laboratories of the University of Cambridge, the platform enables researchers and quants across global financial services firms to apply complex statistical techniques to BMLL’s unique big datasets with applications such as market impact, pre and post trade analytics, order book simulation and compliance. Users no longer need to buy, curate and harmonise data. With BMLL, they gain cost-effective, instant access to a cloud-native Data Science environment via a single web portal, with a long history of the most granular, full order book data across global equities, futures and ETFs for back-testing and simulation, delivered directly into their workflows.

BMLL secured $21 million strategic investment in October 2024, led by Optiver, with participation from CTC Venture Capital and existing investors. This follows BMLL's $26 million Series B investment from Nasdaq Ventures, FactSet, IQ Capital’s Growth Fund and Snowflake Ventures in 2022/2023. Prior to that, BMLL raised $36m through Series A and seed funding rounds.

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