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###### Strengthening Resilience at London Stock Exchange Group: An Enterprise Approach
# \[OR\] \[LSEG\] \[E3\] \[CBS\] \[2\] \[DP\] Market Data Distribution Services
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Market Data Distribution Services represent a foundational capability within the operational ecosystem of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).
As a leading global financial market infrastructure and data provider, LSEG delivers high-volume, real-time, and low-latency market information to exchanges, trading firms, financial institutions, investment managers, and market participants worldwide.
These services support critical business activities such as trading, price discovery, risk management, investment decision-making, analytics, and regulatory reporting.
Given the significant reliance of market participants on timely and accurate market information, any disruption to market data services can rapidly propagate across financial markets and create operational, financial, and reputational impacts.
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[Moh Heng Goh](https://blog.bcm-institute.org/ebook-or/author/moh-heng-goh) Jun 5, 2026
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### [](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/732790df-c975-4982-a409-321d37ad0f1c)CBS-2 Market Data Distribution Services
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[![eBook Cover \[OR\] \[LSEG\] \[E3\] \[2D\]](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/3893111/7b44d499-57df-4ca1-a131-a5a18d3aff6e.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/3893111/7b44d499-57df-4ca1-a131-a5a18d3aff6e)Market Data Distribution Services represent a foundational capability within the operational ecosystem of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).
As a leading global financial market infrastructure and data provider, LSEG delivers high-volume, real-time, and low-latency market information to exchanges, trading firms, financial institutions, investment managers, and market participants worldwide.
These services support critical business activities such as trading, price discovery, risk management, investment decision-making, analytics, and regulatory reporting.
Given the significant reliance of market participants on timely and accurate market information, any disruption to market data services can rapidly propagate across financial markets and create operational, financial, and reputational impacts.
From an operational resilience perspective, identifying and decomposing a Critical Business Service (CBS) into its detailed operational components enables organisations to understand how services are delivered and where vulnerabilities may exist.
For LSEG, breaking down CBS-2 Market Data Distribution Services into detailed Sub-CBS processes provides a basis for analysing operational dependencies across people, processes, technology, facilities, and third parties that support the end-to-end market data ecosystem.
#### **Purpose of the Chapter**
The purpose of this chapter is to identify and document the detailed business processes (Sub-CBS) that collectively support the delivery of CBS-2 Market Data Distribution Services within LSEG’s operational resilience programme.
By decomposing the high-level service into granular operational activities, this chapter provides readers with a structured understanding of how market data is acquired, processed, validated, distributed, monitored, and recovered during disruptions.
Readers should use this chapter as a foundational reference for subsequent operational resilience activities, including dependency mapping, process and resource analysis, impact tolerance establishment, severe-but-plausible scenario identification, and scenario testing.
The objective is to enable stakeholders to understand the operational architecture that supports market data services and to identify critical resilience considerations across the service lifecycle before progressing to later implementation stages.
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Table P1: Detailed Processes for CBS-2
| Sub-CBS Code | Name of Sub-CBS | Description of Sub-CBS |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2.1 | Market Data Source Acquisition and Feed Collection | Captures and ingests raw market data from exchanges, trading venues, pricing contributors, and external providers. Includes acquisition of order books, trade information, pricing data, and reference content. |
| 2.2 | Market Data Validation and Quality Verification | Performs completeness, integrity, sequencing, timestamp verification, and quality checks to ensure received market data is accurate and usable before publication. |
| 2.3 | Market Data Normalisation and Data Transformation | Converts incoming data into standardised internal formats and schemas to ensure consistent downstream consumption across platforms and applications. |
| 2.4 | Instrument and Reference Data Association | Maps securities, instruments, identifiers, and metadata to incoming market information to ensure contextual accuracy and consistency. |
| 2.5 | Real-Time Tick Data Processing | Processes high-frequency market events and tick-level updates with ultra-low latency requirements for time-sensitive users. |
| 2.6 | Market Data Aggregation and Consolidation | Consolidates multiple feeds into integrated market views, creating unified data products and consolidated feeds. |
| 2.7 | Data Enrichment and Analytics Processing | Enhances raw market data with analytics, derived values, indicators, calculations, and additional contextual information. |
| 2.8 | Entitlement and Subscriber Access Management | Manages customer subscriptions, permissions, market data licenses, and entitlement rules governing user access. |
| 2.9 | Data Feed Publication and Distribution | Publishes processed market data to internal and external consumers through APIs, streaming systems, and distribution platforms. |
| 2.10 | Low-Latency Data Delivery and Network Routing | Routes market data through optimised infrastructure designed for high-throughput and minimal-latency transmission. |
| 2.11 | API Gateway and Connectivity Services | Maintains client connectivity mechanisms, including APIs, gateways, middleware, and session management services. |
| 2.12 | Market Data Synchronisation and Time Management | Maintains synchronisation across distributed systems to ensure timestamps and sequencing remain accurate globally. |
| 2.13 | Historical Data Capture and Archiving | Captures and stores historical market information for replay, analytics, audit, and regulatory use. |
| 2.14 | Customer Delivery Channel Integration | Supports integration with customer systems, trading platforms, desktops, and third-party market data consumption channels. |
| 2.15 | Exception Handling and Data Recovery Management | Detects feed interruptions, sequence gaps, corrupted messages, or missing updates and initiates recovery procedures. |
| 2.16 | Market Data Monitoring and Performance Surveillance | Continuously monitors latency, throughput, feed health, and service quality metrics. |
| 2.17 | Incident Response and Service Restoration | Coordinates operational response activities in the event of data distribution failures or service disruptions. |
| 2.18 | Regulatory Reporting and Data Compliance Monitoring | Ensures compliance with licensing obligations, audit requirements, market regulations, and supervisory expectations. |
| 2.19 | Cybersecurity Monitoring for Data Infrastructure | Monitors market data environments for cyber threats, including DDoS attacks, malware, credential compromise, and unauthorised access attempts. |
| 2.20 | Business Continuity and Resilience Administration | Maintains resilience procedures, redundancy arrangements, disaster recovery capabilities, and operational recovery plans supporting uninterrupted market data services. |
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The CBS-2 Market Data Distribution Services capability at LSEG comprises a highly interconnected set of operational, technological, and governance processes that collectively ensure the reliable delivery of market information to global financial markets.
These twenty Sub-CBS components represent the complete value chain from market data acquisition through validation, processing, enrichment, distribution, customer access management, and resilience operations.
Understanding these detailed processes is fundamental to Operational Resilience planning.
By identifying each Sub-CBS, LSEG can systematically map dependencies, assess vulnerabilities, establish impact tolerances, perform severe-but-plausible scenario testing, and implement appropriate controls to maintain service continuity.
This structured decomposition also enables clearer accountability, improved risk management, and stronger recovery capabilities across the market data ecosystem.
In subsequent Operational Resilience activities, these Sub-CBS processes will serve as the foundation for dependency mapping, interconnection analysis, impact tolerance setting, and resilience testing, ensuring that LSEG can continue delivering critical market data services even during significant operational disruptions.
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