Articles by Max Bowie
Celoxica Locks In O'Connor for Chicago
The trading technology sales and trading veteran will be responsible for the vendor's North American sales beyond the East coast.
InvestSoft Execs Take Senior Fixed Income Roles at Morningstar
Founder Al Roitfarb and CEO Todd Roitfarb will both take on roles in Morningstar's fixed income business, following its acquisition of their company, InvestSoft.
Morningstar Buys InvestSoft to Boost Bond Analytics
The acquisition was driven by customer demand for "more robust" fixed income analytics capabilities, Morningstar officials say.
Open Text Closes In on Recommind Buy
The vendors expect the acquisition to close in the first quarter of 2017.
Taifex Taps Deutsche Börse for International Data Licensing
Deutsche Börse already provides licensing for other exchanges, including BSE India, and the Irish and Bulgarian stock exchanges.
Opening Cross: When Will the Money Men Support Their Support Services?
The front office needs to have its market data teams' backs, not back them into a corner.
AlphaSense Nabs S&P’s Magri as Chief Content Officer
The data vet will be responsible for building a team focused on identifying and acquiring third-party content.
Survey: Evaluations Accuracy Improves, But Mortgage Securities Still Challenge Vendors
No vendor demonstrates a clear lead in evaluated pricing overall, SS&C survey says.
Max Bowie: From High Performance to High Octane
Comparisons between Formula One racing and high-performance trading technology and data infrastructures are overused, Max says. So strap yourself in and step on the gas for a few laps around the similarities between our industries.
Aqumin Incorporates Alerting into ‘Landscape' Displays
The alerting will allow users to see alerts within the "context" of their "landscape" of stocks, sectors or indexes.
Broadridge Hires Clarke for Funds Analytics Intelligence
Clarke will be responsible for increasing the granularity and coverage of Broadridge's data to support new business areas.
MTS Grows Low-Latency ‘Live' Bond Coverage
With data on securities issued by 16 governments, MTS Live carries low-latency data on more than 30 million quotes and orders that cross the MTS Cash platform every day.
Rimes Adds Best Credit Data Muni, Corporate Prices to Managed Services
Rimes clients worldwide will be able to access Best Credit Data's municipal and corporate bond data via Rimes' managed services.
Global Prime Partners Rolls Out RSRSCHXchange Research Platform
The deal gives Global Prime Partners and its clients access to more than 130 sources of institutional research.
Chain Locks in Sohtz as CMO
Sohtz's responsibilities at Chain will include expanding the adoption of the vendor's technologies in broader use cases, including solving business problems for the financial industry.
Infront Adds Freedom Index Data
Infront will roll out the indexes to more than 12,00 clients, free of charge.
Barchart Promotes Haraburda to CEO
In his previous role as managing director of sales and business development, Haraburda also ran the vendor's AgriCharts division.
FactSet Sells Research Arms to Asset International
FactSet will use the $165 million sale to extend its share repurchase program by $165 million.
OpenFin Names Account Director, Europe COO
Harvey and Ruiz have backgrounds in bank technology operations management and fixed income e-trading.
Opening Cross: What Can Financial Information Learn from Formula One?
The intensive data analysis performed during a modern Formula One race has more in common with a trading floor than the "gentlemen racers" of old.
Activ Plans to Leverage Prime Analytics to Help Fill Gaps in Data Coverage
Demand from Prime Analytics' global client base for niche regional markets will give Activ the impetus to pursue exchange data that would otherwise be uneconomical to carry.
FactSet, ICE Score Big in 2016 IMD/IRD Awards
Intercontinental Exchange's acquisition of Interactive Data paid off and brought in new award wins fo rthe exchange.
Axioma Names Data Vet Webster COO
Prior to his five years at Axioma, Webster has also served at UBS, Barclays Global Investors and Barra
Techstars Taps Zanoff as Entrepreneur in Residence for Startups
Zanoff will bring his background as a financial technology veteran and entrepreneur to assist startup FinTech ventures.