Collaborative Financial Services
TickTrade Taps Data Vet Kennedy for Sales, Marketing
Kennedy joins TickTrade from Collaborative Financial Services Inc., a Toront-based consultancy that he co-founded.
TickSmith Taps CFSI to Target Toronto Firms
Enlisting Canadian industry vets will help startup grow in its home market.
Not-So-Secret Agents, Part Two: The Pros and Cons of Using—and Being—External Sales Agents
As data and related technologies become more sophisticated, so too does the process of identifying the correct audience and selling them. And while suppliers across the industry have tightened their belts in recent years as the slow recovery prompted…
Max Bowie: Perfect Pitch: The Rise of Fintech’s Not-So-Secret Agents
Increasingly sophisticated data products need sales experts with a wide range of experience, which sometimes means going "out of house."
Opening Cross: Will 2015 Be a Happy New Year?
As predictable as the inevitable wave of unwanted Christmas gift returns, the New Year has brought a wave of new fees and policies from marketplaces, including a new minimum fee from Nasdaq for exchanges, ATS and broker-run trading platforms that use non…
Not-So-Secret Agents: The Rise of the Third-Party Sales Expert
It’s not uncommon for experienced industry executives to quit their day job and start their own company. However, whereas most startups begin with a product idea that its inventors then have to sell to potential clients, a growing trend among data execs…
Opening Cross: Raising the ‘Standard’ in Terms of Cooperation
So, the industry may soon have a new standard protocol for market data distribution: and not simply a de facto standard co-opted based on existing uptake, but one specifically designed for market data needs that albeit incorporates the speed and…
Canadian Advisory Firm CFSI Signs MDA, Quartet to Vendor Partner Ecosystem
Canadian business development advisory firm Collaborative Financial Services Inc. (CFSI) has signed deals to represent two Toronto-based companies──startup market structure and transaction cost analysis provider Market Data Authority and managed IT…
MDX Tech Taps CFSI as Canadian Agent
UK market data connectivity supplier MDX Technology has appointed Toronto-based consulting services startup Collaborative Financial Services Inc (CFSI) as its sole agent in Canada, as part of its ongoing expansion into North America.
Activ Preps PoP in TMX Co-Lo
Market data and ticker plant provider Activ Financial is building a point of presence (PoP) in Canadian exchange group TMX Group's co-location facility in Toronto, to provide traders subscribing to Activ's Canadian data services with low-latency access…
UPDATE: Canadian Data Vets Found CFSI Advisory, Development Firm; Win Activ Canadian Distribution Deal
Toronto-based startup Collaborative Financial Services Inc, a provider of services that include business development consulting for companies seeking to enter the Canadian market, and an ecosystem of integrated partner products and development…