JPX Market Innovation & Research, (JPXI), a provider of Japan’s financial market data, and Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, announced a partnership in order to disseminate data over Snowflake’s platform.
Data provision via Snowflake will enable market participants to get access to JPXI’s data offerings and empower “cost-effective development of data analysis environments.”
This initiative is supported by J-LAKE, Japan Exchange Group’s data services platform that went live in January of 2025.
J-LAKE centralizes data management within JPX Group, including JPX’s market data, information on “market participants, listed companies, and customers, and a wealth of alternative data and internal knowledge.”
Through J-LAKE, JPXI will be able conduct “analysis on this data and develop and provide new services to meet diverse client needs.”
In providing data distribution services, JPXI will develop services within the existing framework of analyzing customer trends, conducting interviews, and collaborating with partner companies, and also “seek to collaborate with new vendors, startups, and platform providers, with the aim of creating services that provide new value.”
The partnership with Snowflake is a representative “example of the new value created by the J-LAKE platform.”
Koichiro Miyahara, President & CEO of JPXI said:
“Our collaboration with Snowflake represents a new channel through which we can offer greater convenience to market participants while expanding the reach of JPXI’s data products to a broader audience. JPXI is playing a leading role in the next generation of data and digital business.”
Hidetoshi Tojo, Managing Director of Snowflake said:
“By combining JPXI’s J-LAKE platform with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, we believe that we can create an environment where more market participants can access JPXI’s rich and varied data offerings with more ease, efficiency, and convenience, thereby expanding the potential for innovative data usage.”
As noted in the update, JPXI will aim to conduct hearings with its customers to determine the initial data sets to be “offered on the Snowflake platform, with release planned before the end of March 2025.”
