ClaimsSatya Nadella

“Our strategic partnership will bring together the industry leadership of @LSEGplc with the trust and breadth of the Microsoft Cloud to deliver next generation services that will empower the future of financial markets.”

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, on X 12 December 2022 Post by @satyanadella on X, 2022-12-12 (X)

Factual Economics and markets

Microsoft and London Stock Exchange Group have a strategic partnership combining LSEG's industry position with the Microsoft Cloud to deliver next-generation financial markets services.

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

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What would count as true or false

Judge as of 12 December 2022. True: Microsoft and LSEG had announced a strategic partnership on or around that date that combines LSEG's offerings with the Microsoft Cloud to deliver data, analytics or infrastructure services for financial markets. The partnership's vision does not need to have been fully delivered by then. Mostly true: a partnership was announced, but a minor detail differs, such as it being described as an agreement rather than a 'strategic partnership'. Mostly false: there was only a narrower vendor or customer relationship, not a strategic partnership. False: no such partnership existed or had been announced.

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Evidence (3)

  1. E1 LSEG and Microsoft launch 10-year strategic partnership for next-generation data and analytics and cloud infrastructure solutions; Microsoft to make equity investment in LSEG through acquisition of shares London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) · 12 December 2022

    “London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Microsoft have entered into a new long-term strategic partnership to architect LSEG’s data infrastructure using the Microsoft Cloud, and to jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics.”

  2. E2 LSEG and Microsoft launch 10-year strategic partnership for next-generation data and analytics and cloud infrastructure solutions; Microsoft to make equity investment in LSEG through acquisition of shares London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) · 12 December 2022

    “As part of the strategic partnership, LSEG and Microsoft have entered into a 10-year commercial agreement to migrate LSEG’s data platform and other key technology infrastructure into the Microsoft Cloud.”

  3. E3 LSEG & Microsoft launch strategic partnership London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

    “to take your questions on the partnership we announced this morning with Microsoft, and there's no better way to reflect that partnership than our being joined here by Judson Althoff, who is Executive”

Reasoning

On 12 December 2022, LSEG's press release said that LSEG and Microsoft had entered into a new long-term strategic partnership. Under it, the Microsoft Cloud would be used to build LSEG's data infrastructure, and the two would jointly develop data and analytics products (E1). The same release described a 10-year commercial agreement to move LSEG's data platform and key infrastructure into the Microsoft Cloud as part of that partnership (E2). LSEG's investor call transcript from that day confirms the partnership was announced that morning, and a Microsoft executive took part in the call (E3).

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Satya Nadella, “Microsoft and London Stock Exchange Group have a strategic partnership combining LSEG's industry position with the Microsoft Cloud to deliver next-generation financial markets services.” (said 12 December 2022). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_b3aab8252b4b, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_b3aab8252b4b

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