LSEG data agreement supports CMC’s wider retail and institutional services

LSEG and CMC Markets announced a multi-year agreement on 9 October that broadens the data available to CMC’s retail and institutional services. Prices, reference records, corporate actions, news and analytics support an expanding business that includes extended-hours investing, account queries and prime brokerage.[1]

The price coverage includes real-time and delayed feeds. LSEG says the expanded supply will support new products, markets, institutional partnerships and future AI applications. Contract value, exact duration, a like-for-like inventory of added data and product implementation dates were not disclosed.[1]

A wider product business needs more than a price feed

The agreement arrives after a sequence of CMC launches. On 10 September the group expanded 24/5 US share trading to CMC Invest in the UK alongside fractional investing. CMC said fractional orders would be available across its supported order types, including market orders during extended and overnight sessions.[3]

Longer trading sessions require market information beyond the normal exchange day; fractional holdings also need consistent instrument and corporate-action records. Those existing products explain why the agreement’s operational value extends beyond supplying another headline price.[1][3]

Account information is already part of the AI offer

CMC’s separate 24 September launch connected supported UK CFD accounts with ChatGPT on a read-only basis. Customers can query balances, account values, open positions, orders and supported current and historical market data. The LSEG agreement supplies inputs for this broader account-analysis environment and prospective AI work.[2][1]

Institutional expansion adds another data requirement

CMC Connect launched Prime Services in May, adding cash and synthetic prime-brokerage capabilities. The institutional offering includes global cash equities, ETFs and synthetic single-stock exposure, with direct market access and smart order routing across exchanges, multilateral trading facilities and other venues. Clients can connect through FIX or the CMC Connect platform. CMC describes financing and post-trade support alongside execution, with institutional onboarding through its UK and Middle East infrastructure.[4]

The common operating need is consistent information across pricing, holdings, account analysis and institutional execution. The announcements establish broader input coverage but supply no product-level revenue attribution, leaving the financial return from the data agreement to subsequent operating results.[1][4]

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