Capital.com Partners with LSEG to Enhance Market Data Services
Online trading platform Capital.com has expanded its partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to integrate market data and AI-powered analytics services. This collaboration aims to provide traders with enhanced tools for market analysis and faster decision-making.
Key Highlights:
- Capital.com integrates LSEG's real-time news feeds, market data, and sentiment analysis tools.
- The platform handles approximately $147 billion in monthly trading volume.
- More than 750,000 global traders will benefit from these integrated features.
Integration Details
The agreement provides Capital.com users with access to LSEG's real-time news feeds, market data, and sentiment analysis tools. The trading platform will incorporate these features across its existing infrastructure.
Christoforos Soutzis, CEO of Capital.com Europe, stated:
“Our strategic collaboration with LSEG marks an ongoing commitment to partner with the very best organizations to support our clients. By integrating LSEG's powerful data and analytics features directly into our trading platform, clients can access a comprehensive range of market-moving news and analysis quickly and effortlessly, empowering them to make informed decisions faster than ever before.”
The enhanced collaboration includes access to Reuters news services, equity market feeds, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics. Traders will also receive company ownership data and fundamental analysis tools for over 3,000 markets available on the platform.
Stuart Brown, Group Head of Data & Feeds at LSEG, added:
“We are excited to expand our partnership with Capital.com, a leading digital-first broker. By integrating our comprehensive and trusted data sets with their client-centric digital channels through our market-leading, cloud-enabled technology services, we empower users to effectively monitor the markets, generate ideas tailored to their risk tolerance and personal values, and achieve improved portfolio outcomes.”
According to the companies, the implementation will occur in phases over the coming months.
Trading Volume Surge
Capital.com experienced significant expansion in 2024, with total trading volumes surpassing $1.7 trillion—a 33% increase from the previous year. This was accompanied by a more than 20% rise in the number of trades executed.
Soutzis commented:
“Capital.com’s higher trading volumes and strong client engagement in 2024 marks a milestone in our evolution as a high-growth trading platform. This consistent and strong growth puts us in good stead to offer more products and add new features to our platform, further empowering our clients to make better financial decisions.”
A large portion of the trading activity came from clients in the Middle East and Europe, reflecting increased engagement from these regions. Data from the UAE showed trading volumes in 2024 reached nearly $470 billion, with the number of transactions approaching 20 million.
Strategic Expansion
Capital.com’s UAE branch also collaborated with Amazon on a promotional initiative in Dubai, offering over 500,000 Amazon customers an opportunity to participate in a raffle for AED 1 million (approximately $272,000).
The LSEG partnership, combined with expansion in the MENA region, indicates a two-pronged strategy: enhancing Capital.com's technological capabilities while aggressively expanding their geographical footprint. With trading volumes increasing by more than 30%, the company is leveraging this growth to invest in platform capabilities that attract more professional traders while maintaining their appeal to retail clients through improved decision-making tools and market analysis features.
Analytics Explained
Analytics may be defined as the detection, analysis, and relay of consequential patterns in data. Analytics also seeks to explain or accurately reflect the relationship between data and effective decision-making. In the trading space, analytics are applied in a predictive manner in an attempt to forecast the price more accurately. This predictive model of analytics generally involves the analysis of historical price patterns that are used in an attempt to determine certain price outcomes.
Trading Platform Defined
In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing. Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real-time updates on quotes, charts and is the main frontend which customers are facing.