LSEG's Workspace platform suffers widespread outage, trading hit

LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -LSEG Group's Workspace news and data platform suffered an outage on Friday that affected user access worldwide, causing disruption across financial markets. 

In a service announcement to clients, the company said it was experiencing a third party global technical issue. 

This came as a major IT outage impacted companies across the globe.

The LSEG outage also meant that company updates were not being published to markets through its Regulatory News Service, while signs of disruption in one of the world's busiest financial centres emerged as London trade got underway.

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By Rae Wee, Alun John and Sinead Cruise.