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Alternative Data

BattleFin is a leading platform and marketplace for alternative data. It hosts events and conferences focused on the alternative data space, bringing together providers and buyers of unique datasets. BattleFin's flagship event, Discovery Day, is held annually in major cities like New York, where data providers showcase their offerings to hedge funds, investment firms, and corporations seeking alpha-generating insights.
The company's core offering is Ensemble, a global alternative data marketplace that enables buyers to test, evaluate, and purchase datasets seamlessly. Ensemble features a diverse range of alternative data products categorized by geography and type, facilitating efficient data sourcing for users. In June 2024, BattleFin plans to introduce an AI-powered tool to further enhance data discovery on the Ensemble platform.
In addition to events and the Ensemble marketplace, BattleFin conducts industry-wide pricing surveys to provide transparency on data pricing trends. The company has also organized data challenges, such as the Corporate User Data Challenge in 2024, which aimed to identify top alternative data providers for corporate users.
Key customers and partnerships
In June 2020, BattleFin formed a strategic partnership with RepRisk, a specialist in ESG data science. Through this collaboration, RepRisk's extensive ESG risk dataset covering nearly 150,000 companies became available on BattleFin's Ensemble marketplace, enabling investors and fund managers to incorporate this data into their trading algorithms and gain access to new sources of alpha.

BattleFin focuses on sourcing, organizing, evaluating and vetting alternative data. They differentiate themselves by trading live capital on the alternative data they find and offering feedback, validation and verification to the data providers.

Borns Robot is a Chongqing-based minimally invasive surgical robot maker, providing digital diagnosis and treatment solutions for doctors and patients.

A SaaS platform leveraging visualisation to revolutionise the client experience for the private asset market. A feature-rich workflow platform for financial institutions with intuitive data analytics providing clarity and intelligence to managers and end clients. Including a decentralised trading and distribution platform for the vast unlisted asset market, creating liquidity and transparency.

PrimaryBid is a technology platform that allows everyday investors fair access to public companies raising capital. PrimaryBid always ensures that retail investors transact at the same time and at the same price as institutional investors. Through PrimaryBid's long-term agreement with the London Stock Exchange, the company has created the infrastructure to seamlessly connect everyday investors with public companies when it matters most.

BondCliQ their mission is to improve market structure through the development and implementation of a market system for consuming pre-trade institutional pricing data and post-trade TRACE information.

OpenExchange is a SaaS solution that enhances the interaction between the investment community and public companies through our cloud-based video conferencing service.  The online network offers clients the ability to search a global directory of financial services professionals, schedule video meetings, and meet over a wide range of video endpoints, including desktop/laptop, video conference rooms, and mobile devices. Clients include investment managers, investment banks, and public companies.

Vitillo has become a prominent player in the hydraulic industry. Its success is attributed to its capacity to fulfill the individual needs of its customers, which allows Vitillo to provide a comprehensive solution to each of them. This involves producing and supplying fittings, adapters, and hoses, whether rigid or flexible, for high and medium-pressure fluids.

CurveGlobal Markets is the derivatives segment of London Stock Exchange.

Nivaura is a Making Financial Services Invisible : Technology for faster, cheaper and compliant on-demand issuance and administration of financial instruments.

Euroclear group is the financial industry’s trusted provider of post-trade services. Euroclear provides settlement and custody of domestic and cross-border securities for bonds, equities, and derivatives to investment funds. Euroclear is a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation, and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise.

Acadia builds risk management that helps firms to financial risk and optimize resources. Their services include risk model development, risk analytics, finance, accounting, model risk management, model validation, open risk engine, and publications. They also provide financial modeling and planning. Their financial institutions help with risk model transformation.

Kerel Robot provides integrated solutions for automation control systems and information systems. They engage in industrial robots, automated production lines, intelligent warehousing, and other business segments. They provide integrated services such as solution customization, equipment production and manufacturing, installation, and maintenance.

London Stock Exchange Group is a financial markets infrastructure that provides and delivers financial data, analytics, and news.  Its diversified global business focuses on capital formation, intellectual property and risk, and balance sheet management. LSEG operates an open-access model, offering choice and partnership to customers across all of its businesses. The Group can trace its history back to 1698.

<div> London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSE: LSEG) is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Founded over 300 years ago, the company operates the London Stock Exchange, one of the world's oldest and largest stock exchanges. LSEG offers a diverse range of products and services across capital markets, post-trade, and data &amp; analytics: <ul> <li> Capital Markets: Operates equity, bond and derivatives markets, including the London Stock Exchange </li> <li> Post-Trade: Provides clearing, settlement, custody and other post-trade services </li> <li> Data &amp; Analytics: Offers financial indexing, benchmarking, analytics and data products </li> </ul> The company has expanded its capabilities significantly in recent years, particularly through its USD 27 billion acquisition of data provider Refinitiv in January 2021. This deal transformed LSEG into a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data business. In 2022, LSEG entered a 10-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to deliver next-generation data, analytics and cloud infrastructure solutions. The company is headquartered in London but has a global presence across Europe, North America, Asia and other regions. As of March 2024, the total value of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange was approximately USD 3.18 trillion, making it one of the largest stock exchanges in the world by market capitalization. </div>

London Stock Exchange Group beats expectations in ‘particularly strong quarter’

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Capital Markets Tech

Platforms that help financial market participants collect, manage, and use traditional and alternative data, derive market insights from news, and provide trade signals to make informed decisions.

Platforms that help institutions such as asset managers, investment banks, and hedge funds to develop platforms to trade and operate brokerage services for various financial assets and instruments such as stocks, fixed income securities, derivatives, commodities, and foreign currencies.

Companies that use blockchain technology to share and synchronize data and improve efficiency across the trading workflow and post-trade actions such as clearing and settlement.

Platforms that help companies meet anti-money laundering requirements and provide identity verification tools such as KYC checks.

These platforms provide services such as risk detection, regulatory compliance, risk management, risk intelligence, collateral management, internal processes management, and strengthening of internal controls.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for capital markets

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is planning to launch a digital markets business that will utilize blockchain technology for trading traditional financial assets. The company aims to create digital representations of stocks and bonds that can be tracked on a blockchain, offering cheaper transaction costs and a more transparent capital market. LSEG intends to launch this new entity within a year, pending regulatory approval. It is already working with regulators and the UK Treasury to ensure compliance with laws and regulations across multiple jurisdictions. The exchange will focus on using the underlying blockchain technology rather than crypto assets.

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