Free real-time Level 1 data is available now from more than one European trading venue. For instance Chi-X streams real-time data on the 800 largest stocks in Europe accessible through Thomson-Reuters, Bloomberg and a B2N direct feed. Make cost-center owners happy by enabling the use of these free data sources in your firm !
For this set of instruments we present B2N IntelliBBO (volume weighted Best Bid and Offer) which supplies BBO for the required volume. As a side effect the prices created by your configuration of IntelliBBO Cannot be ‘calculated back’ to the original source prices; many exchanges will allow you to redistribute this derived data at no additional cost..
For those wishing to execute trades on fee-liable exchange venues all bids and offers from all venues
will be required. The B2N L2 Aggregator builds a consolidated order book and derives the optimal locations
for execution across multiple venues.
There are many others for whom B2N IntelliBBO and/or B2N Order book data meets all their needs for
prices. These may, for example, be sales people or analysts or others who use the data as a context for their primary
activity in financial markets.
The technology solution is feed-based and will work under your control with your existing feeds.
The B2N BBO solutions are independent of the data source and will work with data from Bloomberg, Thomson-Reuters or any other source supported by MarketHub.