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BMLL

Leading provider of historical trading data and analytics for capital markets

BMLL provides harmonised, analytics-ready historical order book data spanning global equities, ETFs, futures and US options. Through its cloud-native platform and proprietary engineering process, the company cleanses, standardises and unifies raw market data into a consistent, high-quality foundation that enables market participants to accelerate research, optimise trading strategies and gain deeper insight into market behaviour.

Company Background

  • Founded in 2014 by Cambridge academics, BMLL set out to provide market participants with access to high-quality historical order book data across global equities, ETFs, futures and US options.
  • Over more than a decade, the company has built a proprietary, highly rigorous engineering process that unifies raw and inconsistent market data from 120+ venues into a single, globally consistent format.
  • Its cloud-native product suite delivers cleansed, normalised and harmonised Level 3, 2 and 1 data “out of the box,” giving clients analytics-ready and AI-ready data without the need for complex in-house engineering.
  • BMLL serves banks, asset managers, hedge funds, exchanges and other sophisticated market participants, supporting research, trading, analytics and compliance workflows that rely on transparent, high-quality historical data.

Visions & Outlook

  • Strengthen BMLL’s position as the market’s trusted base layer of high-quality, analytics-ready historical data.
  • Broaden global venue coverage and historical depth while further developing multi-asset class capabilities.
  • Leverage Nordic Capital’s experience in financial software and data-driven technology to accelerate BMLL’s international expansion, scale the organisation and support its continued growth as a leader in historical order book data.
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SECTOR

Technology & Payments

EMPLOYEES

90

OWNERSHIP

Nordic Capital Evolution II

INVESTMENT DATE

2025

HEAD OFFICE

London

MANAGEMENT

Paul Humphrey

CEO

MANAGEMENT

Nigel Medhurst

CFO

CHAIRPERSON

Lee Hodgkinson

RESPONSIBLE ADVISOR

David Samuelson

Partner

Nordic Capital's Technology & Payments focus

Having invested in the sector for more than two decades, Nordic Capital is one of the most experienced Technology & Payments investors in Northern Europe. Focus is set on companies with great potential to drive superior growth and benefit from fundamental market trends.

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