BMLL wins “Best Overall Market Data Provider” at the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026
London, 27 February 2026: We are delighted to announce that BMLL won ‘Best Overall Market Data Provider” at the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026.
These awards celebrate excellence in trading solutions and services, highlighting vendors who provide outstanding trading infrastructure, technology, and data solutions to capital markets participants across Europe.
BMLL won this award following a game-changing year for the company, defined by rapid expansion and strategic investment, culminating in its acquisition by Nordic Capital in October 2025. Made in close partnership with the BMLL management team and minority shareholder Optiver, the investment marks a joint commitment to accelerate BMLL’s next phase of growth.
In the last 14 months, BMLL significantly expanded its global footprint, spanning global equities, ETFs, futures and US equity options - its equities offering covers 100% of the MSCI World Index. BMLL also added more than 30 datasets across EMEA, APAC, the Americas, and expanded into the US options market in November 2024 with six years of nanosecond unconflated OPRA options data.
To elevate the standard of market data across the industry, BMLL launched the Client Product Advisory Board (CPAB) in February 2025. Comprising industry heavyweights such as Norges Bank Investment Management, State Street Global Advisors, and Kepler Cheuvreux, the CPAB facilitated the September 2025 launch of Trades Plus, an industry-first dataset combining granular trade history with proprietary classifications and analytics.
Paul Humphrey, Chief Executive Officer of BMLL, said: “Winning ‘Best Overall Market Data Provider’ at the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2026 reflects the strong momentum we are seeing as our client base grows and our global coverage continues to expand. We are extending our coverage across regions, asset classes and venues, while enabling direct, scalable access to harmonised, high-quality data within clients’ own environments. Delivering high-quality, granular order book data to our global clients at scale remains central to our mission and commitment to clients.”
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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, 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-data sets 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, US equity options, futures and ETFs for back-testing and simulation, delivered directly into their workflows.
In October 2025, Nordic Capital acquired BMLL. The investment was made in close partnership with the management team of BMLL and minority shareholder Optiver, marking a joint commitment to accelerate the company’s next phase of growth. Before this, BMLL secured $21 million strategic investment in October 2024, led by Optiver; $26 million Series B investment in 2022/2023; and $36 million in Series A and seed funding rounds.
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