Microsoft has introduced a 10-year strategic partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to place the monetary markets suppliers’ infrastructure and information analytics onto the Microsoft cloud – and has acquired a 4% stake within the group within the course of.
Seasoned cloud trade watchers will know the way these kinds of strategic partnerships play out. The shopper comes on board for an undisclosed quantity, the best noises are made round enhancing buyer and end-user expertise and productiveness, and the seller takes a seat on board. This, nonetheless, is completely different. Microsoft has agreed to buy an roughly 4% fairness stake in LSEG by the acquisition of shares from the Blackstone/Thomson Reuters Consortium.
Microsoft famous that with LSEG’s acquisition of knowledge companies supplier Refinitiv, accomplished initially of 2021, the corporate had its personal spectacular technological stack by way of infrastructure and information. LSEG has ‘differentiated itself in the market with an end-to-end proposition across trading, execution, data and analytics solutions,’ Microsoft famous.
Firms throughout capital markets are dealing with an ‘increasingly complex operating environment’, Microsoft added, with conventional streams of income changing into ‘more challenging.’ A tech stack underpinned by cloud and AI applied sciences is subsequently crucial to interrupt down the previous, siloed platforms and ship the perfect shopper expertise, insights and instruments. “LSEG has already started to address these issues for their customers, and through this strategic partnership, we will accelerate that transformation,” Microsoft added.
In phrases of nuts and bolts, LSEG will utilise a large a part of the Microsoft enterprise collaboration suite. LSEG’s know-how infrastructure and information and analytics platforms – together with Refinitiv platforms – will likely be migrated onto the Microsoft cloud. The firms promised an open monetary information platform which can ‘enable seamless data democratisation, collaboration and new monetisation opportunities across the financial services ecosystem.’ Internal collaboration will come by a bespoke LSEG Workspace on Microsoft Teams providing, whereas enhanced Excel integration was additionally famous.
David Schwimmer, the CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group – no, not that one – stated: “Bringing together our leading data sets, analytics and global customer base with Microsoft’s comprehensive and trusted cloud services and global reach creates attractive revenue growth opportunities for both companies.”
Among Microsoft’s different buyer and partnership wins in the newest quarter embody Informatica, which has change into an preliminary companion of Microsoft’s Intelligent Data Platform companion ecosystem, and Our Future Health, pitched because the UK’s largest-ever well being analysis programme.
You can learn extra concerning the deal right here.
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