News, Insight and Events

19 December, 2023

Introduction to trading mechanisms in the European equities market: Closing Auctions

This blog introduces and explains the mechanics of Europe’s second most popular trading mechanism: closing auctions.

13 December, 2023

BMLL Expands North American Data Coverage to Canada

BMLL adds Level 3 data from all major Canadian trading venues and exchanges including the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Canadian Securities Exchange; Nasdaq Canada; CBOE Canada (NEO Exchange); Omega ATS and the Canadian Consolidated Book

6 December, 2023

BMLL Adds Shanghai Data; Completes China Equity Data Offering

Shanghai data complements existing China data from the Shenzhen and Hong Kong equity exchanges; all now available in one consistent format, in the BMLL Data Lab.
Every major China Equity Exchange now available.

1 December, 2023

BMLL Wins ‘Best Data Science Solution’ At The A-Team Data Management Insight Awards Europe 2023

These awards recognise both established solution vendors and innovative newcomers providing leading data management solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across Europe.

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 displayed spread can be misleading and cause many institutional investors to miscalculate the true cost of investment. In this article, Tom Jardine, Client Facing Data Scientist, discusses a much more useful measure for investors to gauge liquidity.

20 November, 2023

BMLL wins ‘Best Sales Professionals’ in the annual Harrington Starr Top 1% Workplace Awards

These prestigious awards recognise those that are setting a new standard for excellence in the workplace.

15 November, 2023

BMLL: A Culture of Excellence, Innovation and Collaboration

We are very excited to have won ‘Best Sales Professionals’ in this year’s The Top 1% Workplace Awards by Harrington Starr, and to be highly commended for ‘Best Workplace for Talent Investment'.

10 November, 2023

BMLL wins ‘Outstanding Market Data Provider’ at The Trade ‘Leaders in Trading’ Awards

These awards shine a light on the firms displaying excellence in data quality and accessibility, technological developments, new partnerships and significant investment.

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 market structure analysis to achieve optimal trading outcomes.