Clarendon Fund Managers leads investment for data solutions firm INQDATA. The investment round into Belfast headquartered INQDATA was led by Clarendon Fund Managers on behalf of the Investment Fund for Northern Ireland, with the company also receiving investment from new investors, Iona Star Capital and Techstart Ventures.

BMLL selects INQDATA to deliver BMLL's industry-leading historical data and analytics directly to kdb+ users. Users can now access BMLL’s high-quality, granular data directly within their kdb+ environment, leading to faster time-to-insights, reduced total cost of ownership, and optimised trading strategies.

INQDATA today announced that Bloomberg’s Tick History Data is now available through its cloud-based data solution, powered by leading high performance time series database kdb+. The new solution will make it as easy as possible for mutual clients to access and manage large volumes of Bloomberg tick data, fully hydrated and hosted by INQDATA.

Per John Mason, Group Head of Pricing at LSEG - “For every $1 spend on financial market data, a further $8 was being spent by financial services organizations on processing, storing and transforming the data before it could be analyzed".

Deciding to forego the January blues, “Everything Everywhere all with kdb+/q” provided our Rebecca Kelly and Aoife Clarke the perfect opportunity to soak up some Spanish sun (for one of us anyway). Between tapas and timeseries; pastel del nata and PyKX; we’ve summarised our takeaways below for those who might have missed it.

DQ Series: [Data] Methodology is applied Ideology. For many, ensuring data quality is a responsive action, meaning usually, the most used datasets have reasonable data quality controls while periphery datasets are left to one side. These periphery datasets can be caught in a negative feedback loop, being overlooked by users because they are not consistent with the larger datasets.

DQ Series: The Data Quality Dilemma. Beyond frustrating data inconsistencies and missing values, many struggle to access and utilise essential data. Rebecca Kelly, Head of AI & Analytics dives into the root causes and introduces INQDATA's approach to streamlining data pipelines and empowering data-driven decisions.

Discover how our fully-managed service streamlines data processes, addresses challenges, and enables institutions to effortlessly extract optimal value from their data.

CTO Series: Data Curation in the Cloud: Why did we partner with KX? In the first of the series, hear from our CTO Patrick Dooher on why at INQDATA we unleash the power of kdb+ on the data curation process.

INQDATA and KX partner to streamline data processing, drive informed decision-making, and unlock new opportunities in Financial Services.

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.

Goldman Sachs and AWS Collaborate to Create New Data Management and Analytics Solutions for Financial Services Organizations.

CME Group Signs 10-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Transform Global Derivatives Markets Through Cloud Adoption.