Digital Markets

Digital markets reflect the evolution of capital markets through blockchain based digital technologies, assets and new market models. Across digital capital markets, these developments are creating new opportunities to raise capital, invest, access liquidity, trade, settle and manage risk. As digital financial markets evolve, connecting new technologies with trusted market infrastructure, data and workflows can help reduce friction, improve transparency and support greater efficiency. LSEG brings together trusted infrastructure, data, analytics and risk management capabilities to help customers navigate capital markets transformation and participate in the future of capital markets with confidence.

LSEG helps connect traditional and digital markets, enabling customers to move between on chain and off chain environments while benefiting from trusted infrastructure, data and standards.

• Market infrastructure: Connect on chain and off chain issuance, settlement and servicing to move assets and capital more efficiently.
• Data and benchmarks: Bring trusted data and benchmarks into on chain workflows to build, manage and measure investments seamlessly across environments.
• Trading and workflow tools: Connect digital and traditional assets through integrated workflows to trade and manage multi asset portfolios more efficiently.

Digital securities are financial securities that are issued or represented digitally using technologies such as distributed ledgers. Their lifecycle can include digital issuance, trading, settlement and ongoing asset servicing. Digital market infrastructure can connect these digital processes with existing capital markets infrastructure, helping institutions participate across traditional and digital markets. LSEG’s Digital Securities Depository (DSD) has been developed to support issuance and settlement across digitally native securities and digital representations of traditional securities.

Tokenisation creates a digital representation of an asset that can be issued and managed using distributed ledger technology. In capital markets, tokenisation can support more efficient issuance and settlement, greater transparency and new ways for market participants to access assets and liquidity. By connecting tokenised assets with trusted market infrastructure and existing market processes, tokenisation has the potential to reduce friction across the asset lifecycle.

FTSE Russell provides digital asset pricing designed to support institutional use cases and index development. The FTSE DAR Reference Prices draw on executed trade data and rigorous asset and exchange vetting, with ongoing monitoring supporting transparent and objective market measurement. Combined with FTSE Russell’s index and benchmark capabilities, this provides a consistent foundation for research, performance analysis, benchmarking and other institutional workflows. Data is available for direct delivery or through a wide variety of data distribution platforms, including LSEG Workspace.