Data distribution and data flow

Real-Time Distribution System

You never have to compromise on how you manage data. Choose your data type and use case, control your costs and always stay compliant. Explore flexible opportunities that will power your potential. 

LSEG collaborates with AWS to support real-time data infrastructure

Streamline your operations and manage your data with confidence

You can reduce complexity and costs and streamline your operations. Transfer data across your offices and functions securely and confidently with your own unique workflows.

When you need to distribute data, connect to a range of APIs and minimise any downtime with our robust technology. Your teams can write new apps or algorithms and quickly start trading with them over the platform.

Access more than 15,000 licences globally on our entitlements system to ensure your company remains compliant. You can normalise or tag content from any provider so that it is identifiable at all stages, giving you full audit and compliance trails.

Why Real-Time Distribution System

  • 15,000+
    Licences globally
  • 500,000+
    Active users
  • 260
    Partner firms

How we help

Real-Time Distribution System supports the use cases of financial firms around the globe with a range of key capabilities, including: 

  • In the cloud, with choice – firms can choose just to manage the installation and support of the software, or they can have LSEG look after installation, upgrades, health checks and tuning via the LSEG Complete Care package. With the Dynamic Remote Monitoring package, LSEG will also provide remote monitoring and service restoration.
  • Trusted Data Delivery – firms can create a variety of inter-office data topologies – including hub and spoke, and peer-to-peer – to route data from producers to any location around the globe, reducing infrastructure costs and improving resiliency and compliance.
  • Data Access Control System – the leading market data entitlements administration system. It is recognised by all major exchanges and venues as a means for customers to both stay compliant with exchange fees and manage their market data spend.
  • Real-Time Advanced Transformation Server – An enterprise-grade, real-time calculation engine that enables financial institutions to calculate, enrich and publish proprietary analytics in real-time – with full control, resilience and auditability.
  • APIs – a range of open source, real-time APIs to meet customer needs, from lightweight, minimal code use cases to mission critical ones that must perform at scale and velocity.

Features & Benefits

Creating potential with Real-Time Distribution System 

Core infrastructure

Support your data distribution and integration and administrative function – with a highly efficient data management service.

Control flow and administration

Manage data flow to applications and automate entitlements to save costs and reduce administrative costs.

Added value

Create, distribute and integrate proprietary content with real-time calculations, analytics and static data.

Systems management and support

Improve your infrastructure oversight with an integrated console that helps monitor and manage platform performance and data-consuming apps.

Help with compliance

Benefit from full transparency around data publishing. Our entitlement system helps to establish audit and compliance trails.

Reduce total cost of ownership

Improve efficiency, lower network costs and only pay for the data your apps consume.

Advanced Transformation Server

Learn more about Real-Time Advanced Transformation Server (ATS)

Real-time calculation, transformation and enterprise-wide data distribution

Available to clients using LSEG’s Real-Time Distribution System (RTDS) and Real-Time Managed Distribution Service (RTMDS), ATS is an enterprise-grade, real-time calculation engine enables financial institutions to calculate, enrich and publish proprietary analytics in real-time. It operates as a value-add component that applies a multi-source blending approach to user-defined enhancements and calculations, unlocking a range of benefits, including:

  • Real-time calculations & enrichment: Perform simple to highly complex real‑time calculations using industry‑standard functions or bespoke logic.
  • Multi-source data blending & dynamic feed selection: Blend multiple real‑time and delayed sources with intelligent routing for low‑latency performance and automatic failover.
  • Intelligent data parsing & cleansing: Parse complex page‑based content and cleanse data in real time to remove spikes, outliers and anomalies.
  • Internal contribution & enterprise-wide publishing: Capture internal data contributions and publish them consistently across all consuming systems and teams.
  • Enterprise-grade collaboration, permissions & control: Distribute standardised data with granular, DACS‑based permissions for strong governance and aligned model management.
  • High performance & built-in resilience: Multi‑threaded, low‑latency architecture with fault‑tolerant deployment ensures continuous, scalable processing.
  • Full auditability & transparency: Track every update with a comprehensive audit trail and usage insights that support compliance and cost efficiency.
  • Cloud-ready deployment: Multi‑cloud connectivity enables scalable, efficient deployment across modern infrastructure environments.

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