What We Do

Navigating fragmented markets remains a challenge for participants needing easily digestible information on trading analysis.

big xyt’s data analytics solutions respond to these market challenges and provides clients access to transparent, accurate, and normalised data.

big xyt has created a global ecosystem for tick data analytics covering more than 120 trading venues, across equities, ETFs, FX, and listed derivatives (futures and options). Our solutions are available in T+1 and real-time.

Our unique private cloud-based technology normalises trade conditions of venues allowing consistent aggregations of trading volumes, comprehensive analysis, and delivery of results in flexible and customisable formats.  Our APIs support more in-depth quantitative research and feed dependent systems such as algorithms and decision support tools, essential for data science and quant teams.

big xyt’s innovative data analytics solutions are relevant for a broad range of use cases.

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STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
Quants & Algo Development
PERFORMANCE TRENDS & ANALYSIS
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MARKET STRUCTURE & LIQUIDITY INSIGHTS
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QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
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BACK TESTING
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REGULATORY CHANGES

Trading data analytics have until now been available only to the most sophisticated firms with substantial capital investments.  big xyt is breaking the mould by making the capability available to all firms, whether or not their main focus is on trading, and regardless of the size of their budgets.

By mutualising this capability on behalf of the industry, we provide flexible and tailor-made solutions (available in T+1 or real-time) at a fraction of the cost of in-house builds.

How do we do this?

  • Our data quality is at the core of what we offer. We systematically collect, clean, validate and store very large amounts of referential and tick data across global markets (this corresponds to trillions of data points each year).
  • We generate sophisticated metrics that measure all forms of trading, and can quickly add new metrics to service clients’ specific needs.
  • We make them available in easy to use visualisation tools that demonstrate patterns and performance (actionable insights).
  • We provide comprehensive and flexible APIs that support more in-depth quantitative research and feed dependent systems such as algorithms and decision support tools.

Information is delivered through a convenient and interactive user interface, and can be easily connected to our private cloud-based platform via APIs.

What’s behind the big xyt name?

Big is for big data. X and Y are variables and represent our focus on analytics. The T stands for time.

Looking at a single event in isolation is only one page in a story. It is only when we combine the pages and chapters that the full narrative emerges.

Founded in 2014, we have locations in Frankfurt, London and Wrocław, and have been profitable since inception. We’re growing steadily and sustainably – our team is now comprised of over 40 people, and we have a presence in North America and the Asia Pacific.

We are accredited with the ISO 27001 Certified Information Management Security System from the United Registrar of Systems/ UKAS Management Systems.

What Makes Us Different

big xyt is wholly owned by its founders and employees, which means there is no conflict of interest when evaluating your execution needs or analysing broker performance.

Embracing a nimble approach, our core strategy is to constantly evaluate new ideas, methodologies and technologies. In partnership with our clients, we are always innovating and supporting clients to demonstrate their own value proposition. We provide full access to data via web-based dashboards (GUIs), customised reports and APIs.

Firms across the financial services industry choose big xyt as their data analytics partner due to our independence and ability to provide the best quality normalised data, our capability to deliver complex security and execution analytics in sophisticated and data-rich financial markets, as well as the in-depth domain experience of the big xyt team in setting up, running and maintaining data analytics environments for tick data in highly secure environments.

Our data quality is at the core of what we offer. We systematically collect, clean, validate and store very large amounts of reference and tick data across global markets (this corresponds to trillions of data points each year).

Our powerful APIs give you the flexibility to integrate our private cloud-based platform with your trading infrastructure, quickly and easily.

Our solutions enable our clients to streamline their technology overhead costs. Increasingly, the global financial services community is realising the benefits of working with a specialist partner as opposed to the time and cost of trying to replicate all building blocks required for data science inhouse.

Global markets coverage and cross-asset: Equities, ETFs, FX and Listed Derivatives (Futures and Options).

Our quantitative pedigree and domain expertise in trading and investment enables us to provide insightful data analytics solutions and smart analytics using AI and machine learning.

xyt lab supports more in-depth quantitative research and provides a secure environment to enable data scientists to perform their own analytics on the most granular (Level 3) data which can be overlaid with their own private content, and provides convenience for Python users wanting to generate new metrics or to schedule regular delivery of results.

Decades of experience in data analytics, mathematics, software engineering and data science (covering analytics solutions, trading, risk management, regulation and financial reporting). Our business development team has extensive global investment banking experience, across portfolio management, electronic trading, and client management.

Our Team

Team

big xyt - Robin Mess

Robin Mess

CO-FOUNDER, CEO

With 20+ years of experience in financial services, Robin is the Co-founder and CEO of big xyt...

big xyt - Dirk Subjetzki

Dirk Subjetzki

CO-FOUNDER, CFO

Dirk has over 20 years of experience in the banking industry. Before co-founding big xyt he held...

big xyt - Wieslaw Nosal

Wiesław Nosal

CO-FOUNDER, COO

Prior to co-founding big xyt in 2014, Wieslaw's experience covered roles in software development, co...

big xyt - Kamil Jaskiewicz

Kamil Jaśkiewicz

CO-FOUNDER, LEAD UI DESIGNER

Kamil has been working in bespoke software development since 2008, with exposure to a variety of mar...

big xyt - Maciej Lach

Maciej Lach

CO-FOUNDER, CTO

Maciej has been working in the software industry since 2005. His expertise includes new technologies...

big xyt - Tomasz Jastrzebski

Tomasz Jastrzębski

CO-FOUNDER, ANALYTICS

Tomasz is a mathematician and a subject-matter expert for capital markets with a broad range...

big xyt - Mark Montgomery

Mark Montgomery

STRATEGY AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Mark looks after Strategy and Business Development for big xyt. Prior to joining the company in 2018...

big xyt - Piotr Szawlis

Piotr Szawlis

HEAD OF SECURITY ANALYTICS

Piotr is a data analytics specialist for big xyt. Prior to joining big xyt he was working...

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Rafał Połoczański

HEAD OF EXECUTION ANALYTICS

Rafał joined big xyt in 2019 and is responsible for client support and operations for execution anal...

big xyt - Richard Hills

Richard Hills

CLIENT ENGAGEMENT

Richard is Head of Client Engagement at big xyt. Richard has over 30 years’ experience in capital ma...

big xyt - Melanie Carpenter

Melanie Carpenter

HEAD OF MARKETING

Melanie joined the big xyt team in November 2020. Before a stint in the UAE...

big xyt - Philip Barnes

Philip Barnes

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT (APAC)

Philip joined big xyt in early 2021 as Head of Business Development in Asia Pacific.

big xyt - Daniel Nelham

Daniel Nelham

SENIOR SALES REPRESENTATIVE

Dan joined big xyt in June 2023, and brings 20 years experience spanning sales, trading and research...

big xyt - Paulina Kownacka

Paulina Kownacka

DATA SCIENTIST

Paulina is a data scientist at big xyt and and has a genuine passion for data. She graduated from...

big xyt - Aleksandra Bodylska

Aleksandra Bodylska

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Aleksandra is a software engineer at big xyt. She graduated from the Wrocław University...

big xyt - Witold Sterna

Witold Sterna

FRONT-END DEVELOPER

Witold is a front-end developer at big xyt. He holds a M.Eng. in Applied Computer Science. 

big xyt - Adam Dróżdż

Adam Dróżdż

DEVOPS ENGINEER

Adam is a DevOps Engineer at big xyt, and graduated (BEng) from the Białystok University of Technolo...

big xyt - Anna Khodyka

Anna Khodyka

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Anna is a software engineer at big xyt. She graduated from the Ukrainian National...

big xyt - Sławomir Raczyński

Sławomir Raczyński

DATA SCIENTIST

Sławek has been working as a Data Scientist for big xyt since March 2023. He holds a M.Eng. in Mecha...

big xyt - Martyna Durko-Maciąg

Martyna Durko-Maciąg

DATA SCIENTIST

Martyna has been working as a Data Scientist for big xyt since December 2022 and holds a PhD in Chem...

big xyt - Harry Preston

Harry Preston

SALES EXECUTIVE

Harry joined big xyt in November 2023.  Prior to big xyt, he worked at Aquis Exchange for over 4.5 y...

big xyt Alicia Ariffin

Alicia Ariffin

VP OF PEOPLE

Alicia is VP of People at big xyt and supports big xyt’s ambitious growth targets including with the...

Phil Lemmon - Head of TCA Sales at big xyt

Phil Lemmon

HEAD OF TCA SALES EMEA

Phil joined big xyt as Head of TCA Sales EMEA in November 2024.  Phil’s strong client focus, reputat...

The big xyt
journey so far …

Nov 2024
big xyt secures €10m investment round led by European growth investment firm Finch Capital to drive global expansion and product development
Nov 2024
big xyt wins Outstanding Market Data Provider – Equities Award at The Trade’s Leaders in Trading Awards 2024
Jun 2024
big xyt wins Best Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) Solution at the Waters Technology Asia Awards 2024
May 2024
big xyt wins ‘Best Data Analytics Provider’ at the Waters Technology Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards 2024
Nov 2023
big xyt launches portfolio liquidity analysis solution in partnership with Baillie Gifford
Nov 2023
big xyt wins ETF Stream ETF Data Provider of the Year 2023
Oct 2023
Launch of first-to-market real-time analytics leveraging our proprietary European tape
Jul 2023
Johannesburg Stock Exchange and big xyt launch new joint venture company – big xyt ecosystems
May 2023
Release of the free Trade Verification Tool to enable users to quickly verify suspicious trades
Mar 2023
Winner of the Hedgeweek European Award 2023 for Best Data Provider - Overall
Nov 2022
Winner of The TRADE's Leaders in Trading Award for Outstanding Market Data Provider
May 2022
Launch of first-to-market white label trading analytics platform for equities and ETFs with the JSE
Feb 2022
Winner of Best TCA Tool in A-Team’s TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2022
Feb 2022
Launch of the Global Exchanges Directory, a free resource for the global trading and investment community
Feb 2021
Expansion to APAC with the appointment of Philip Barnes
Feb 2021
Winner of Best TCA Tool in A-Team’s TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2021
May 2020
Advanced liquidity metrics for Enterprise subscribers of the Liquidity Cockpit
Apr 2020
The big xyt platform is cloud-native using Kubernetes
Mar 2020
Expansion of the London team with the appointment of Richard Hills (Head of Client Engagement)
Nov 2019
Winner of the THE TRADE's Leaders in Trading Award for Outstanding TCA Provider
Jun 2019
Consolidated View for European equities launched
Mar 2019
Pre-trade analytics launched
Nov 2018
Insights on Systematic Internalisers available to the community
Sep 2018
Launch of the Liquidity Cockpit for ETFs
Jun 2018
All major European exchanges, MTFs and leading brokers use the Liquidity Cockpit as a reference for market structure analysis
May 2018
big xyt opens new office in London, UK
Apr 2018
big xyt exec team expands to UK with the key hire of Mark Montgomery (Head of Strategy & Business Development)
Feb 2018
Post-trade analytics (incl. TCA) for global equities launched
Sep 2017
XYT Hub for algo testing and quants launched
Jul 2017
Liquidity Cockpit for European Equities launched
Apr 2017
Proprietary tick data analytics deployed for a leading market maker (16 years of normalised US equities data)
Feb 2017
XYT Store launched, an e-commerce platform for data and analytics
Jul 2016
Launch of white-label Tick Data analytics for global markets. Deployed as a web-based solution for a leading data vendor covering more than 120 feeds globally (equities, ETFs, bonds, options and futures)
Dec 2014
big xyt founded
2013
Tick data analytics for exchanges
2011
Founders team expands
2005
Founders meet - engineering and operating solutions for real-time analytics at major investment banks

Awards

big xyt ETF Stream Awards 2023 Winner - ETF Data Provider of the Year
big xyt - Hedgeweek European Emerging Manager Awards 2023 Winner
big xyt - The TRADE Leaders in Trading 2022 Outstanding Market Data Provider
big xyt Best data Provider Overall Hedgeweek European Awards 2023
big xyt - TradingTech Insight Awards Best TCA Tool
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big xyt - The TRADE Leaders in Trading Awards 2019 Outstanding TCA Provider