Managing market data

Real-Time Managed Distribution Service

Simplify market data management with our fully managed, cloud-ready distribution service – delivering speed, resilience and global reach.

LSEG collaborates with AWS to support real-time data infrastructure

Let us manage the complexity – so you can lead with clarity

In today’s world of rising data volumes and evolving regulations, managing real-time data infrastructure can be costly, time-consuming, and risky.

LSEG’s Real-Time Managed Distribution Service delivers the support, software, security, and scalability your business needs to stay competitive and resilient – powered by a cloud-ready architecture.

With 20+ global Points of Presence, flexible connectivity options, and multiple layers of redundancy, our service ensures high system availability, meeting your unique requirements – on-premises or in the cloud. This foundation enables cost-effective data consumption and predictable costs.

Benefit from robust entitlement and permissioning controls that streamline administration and strengthen data governance. And through seamless integration across our Real-Time solutions suite and unified data model – backed by decades of experience managing hundreds of environments worldwide – LSEG simplifies your market data operations while providing access to one of the broadest and deepest data universes, sourced from 550+ global venues.

As a Real-Time Managed Distribution Service client, you can also gain access to our Real-Time Advanced Transformation Server (ATS) – 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.  

Real-Time Managed Distribution Service unpacked

Take a closer look at how LSEG’s fully managed deployments, cloud ready architectures, and cloud-based data testing enable faster onboarding, safer testing, and more predictable operations.

Features & benefits

What you get with Real-Time Managed Distribution Service

Cost efficiency & predictability

Use various service-led capabilities to reduce operational cost and complexity – avoiding heavy upfront investment whilst achieving predictable pricing as you scale.

Rapid time-to-market

Onboard millions of instruments in days, not months – supporting rapid growth and expansion without the limitation of legacy management systems.

Operational resilience & compliance

Designed to meet stringent regulatory frameworks like DORA, with world-class security to minimise cyber threats and global data centres available 24/7 to support business continuity.

Simplified integration

Access data, machine-readable news, and managed feeds through a single API – streamlining consumption and reducing complexity.

Ecosystem connectivity & collaboration

Integrate seamlessly with providers, consumers, and third-party partners – enabling researchers, quants, and traders to share insights, collaborate, and create new opportunities for innovation and revenue generation.

Publication as a Service

Make your data public or private – and you can add publisher identifier information for added compliance controls.

In Action

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.

Use cases

Real-Time Managed Distribution Service in action

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