LSEG and Microsoft launch 10-year strategic partnership for next-generation data and analytics and cloud infrastructure solutions

Microsoft to make equity investment in LSEG through acquisition of shares

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Microsoft have entered into a new long-term strategic partnership to architect LSEG’s data infrastructure using the Microsoft Cloud, and to jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics. The partnership will build on the good progress made by LSEG on the integration of Refinitiv and enhance its position as a world-leading financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Read the full release here.

TRG Screen: Data, Data Everywhere: Managing New Digital Assets – Market Data Mix

The financial services industry is known for its complexity in terms of the multitude and proliferation of market participants, vendors, products, user requirements, agreements and pricing structures.

Alongside this, the global financial sector generates an enormous amount of data (measured today in petabytes i.e., 1,000s of terabytes), creating data capture and management challenges for all participants in the financial trading supply chain – sell and buy sides, data generators and consumers. Read more.