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Data plays an important role in supporting AI’s ability to assist in business and trading decisions
CME Group’s Options Analytics service delivers institutional intelligence to all, offering real-time Greeks and theoretical pricing for the 40 most liquid instruments
For years, the financial industry chased milliseconds. Today, the critical differentiator in financial markets isn’t just about being the fastest. Instead, it’s about mastering fidelity. Ensuring access to the best, most accurate data, which has become the non-negotiable standard.Play Video
Once a byproduct of trading, market data is now the fuel driving the next generation of market intelligence. Whether it’s informing the latest Large Language Models (LLMs) or empowering a new wave of retail traders, the demand for “Golden Source” data has never been higher.
For Trey Berre, Global Head of Data Services at CME Group, the industry is moving past the era of raw information. Today’s market participants are looking beyond numbers for the definitive, reliable data required to power increasingly complex machines.
The shift toward deeper, data-driven insights is visible in the evolution of the infrastructure itself. A decade ago, historical market data was a physical commodity, often delivered on hard drives via courier. Today, that same data flows seamlessly and instantly through cloud-native pipelines like the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
As the delivery medium has evolved, end-users have evolved even faster.
“If you look in particular at the retail space, ten years ago retail clients were looking at top of book data or the last sale price,” Berre notes. “Now they are ingesting that data directly from CME Group through APIs into algorithms. That’s something we haven’t quite seen in years past, and it’s an exciting time for us.”
The insatiable appetite for data is being driven by three core pillars: automation, quality and the transformation of raw data into derived insights. These foundational pillars are now the bedrock for the next frontier in finance: Generative and Agentic AI.
For Berre, AI is far more than just a buzzword – it represents an accelerating driver for data demand.
“Clients are looking for data to ‘hydrate’ solutions,” he explains, highlighting the critical role data plays in enabling AI to drive real-time decision-making on how firms conduct business and execute trades.
Technology has empowered every market participant, from individual investors managing personal portfolios to major global institutions overseeing vast capital, by providing access to benchmark-moving data.
CME Group offers an extensive repository of over 40 years of historical data spanning every major asset class. This rich and deep resource helps fuel the strategies of over 250,000 institutional users and a rapidly growing community of more than 1 million retail traders.
Whether it is delivered through a network of 500+ licensed distributors or direct cloud connectivity, CME Group’s recent launches, such as the Options Analytics REST API and Rolling Futures Indices, provide market participants with a streamlined way to track Greeks – the key metrics used to measure options risk – and contract expiries without building expensive internal infrastructure.
“We found that small prop firms and hedge funds, who may not have the full capital to support those types of offerings, are looking to CME Group to do that for them,” Berre explains. By providing these sophisticated tools directly, CME Group is helping firms reduce their capital costs.
In 2026 and beyond, providing investors at all levels with the critical data they need in the format they desire remains a key focus.
“In the ever-changing markets that we’re experiencing today, whether it’s changes to central bank policy or geopolitical events, the one thing that remains consistent when things are volatile is the importance of risk management. And to manage risk today, you have to have reliable data.”
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Originally Posted January 26, 2026 – From Informing AI to Empowering Traders, Quality Data is Non-Negotiable
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