Articles by Max Bowie
Opening Cross: Market Data’s Facebook Status Would Be ‘It’s Complicated…’
As data becomes more sophisticated, data management becomes more complicated.
CBOE Hikes BBO, Depth Fees, Cuts COB Charges
Fee changes aim to support the cost of additional content, while attracting more trading.
YCharts Adds Fund Screener Tool
The screener will allow investment advisors to navigate and select frommore than 40,000 funds
Chi-X Canada Launches Web-Based Historical Data Downloads
The service will automate provision of historical data files for the ATS and its clients.
CoreOne Creates RegOne Analytics, Reporting Division with TAG, TTA Acquisitions
New York-based data management technology provider CoreOne Technologies has acquired transaction cost analysis tools provider Transaction Auditing Group for an undisclosed sum to create a new market structure analytics and reporting division, dubbed…
FactSet Names Bloomberg's Miller Sales Head
FactSet Research Systems has appointed former Bloomberg exec Scott Miller executive vice president and global director of sales, replacing Michael Frankenfield, who the vendor has named vice chairman, and who will hold a senior sales advisory role.
Codestreet Gets VC Buy-In to Accelerate Development, Boost Sales
New York-based price discovery and distribution and bond trading software vendor Codestreet has sold undisclosed minority stakes in the company to two venture capital firms, Rochester Advisors and Cerium Technology, to help accelerate growth of its…
Barchart Adds Eris Data
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart has begun providing market data from swap futures marketplace Eris Exchange via its Barchart Trader datafeed and trading platform, in response to client demand for access to the exchange's data, officials say.
Update: Redline Bows Managed Consolidated US Feed; Eyes Broader Datacenter Access, Vendor Partners
Consolidated option will broaden appeal to firms that are more cost-sensitive than latency-sensitive.
Rimes Nabs Interactive Data Vet Beith
Rimes Technologies, a provider of managed services for benchmark and economic data management, has appointed long-time Interactive Data exec Brendan Beith head of sales for the world excluding the Americas, focusing on sales in the EMEA and Asia-Pacific…
Carbon Market Data Fires Up Korean Emissions Database
Carbon Market Data, a London-based provider of databases and analytics covering carbon usage and production, has released a new South Korea ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) Database, which provides information on the 525 South Korean companies…
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Opening Cross: Do You Think of Data as a Grgich or a Gato Negro?
The other day, I was chatting with the owner of my local coffee shop about different types of coffees. He prefers African beans, lightly roasted, with bright, fruity flavors, whereas I prefer South American or Indonesian beans, roasted to within an inch…
FIF's Kimmel Named to SEC Market Structure Committee
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has set up a new Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee, staffed by senior executives from the trading and financial technology industries, including Manisha Kimmel, managing director of market data industry…
Redline Bows Managed Consolidated US Exchange Feed
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant and feed handler vendor Redline Trading Solutions has unveiled a fully managed consolidated datafeed of US equities and options market data, dubbed RedlineFeed, using the vendor's InRush ticker plant to…
BondWave Adds SunGard's Daley, DPC's Chintala to Exec Team
BondWave, a Wheaton, Illinois-based provider of trade support, monitoring, alerting and reporting software for fixed income investors and financial advisors, has hired Paul Daley as managing director of its Fixed Information Lab, the vendor's research…
Bohrman Takes Over SIX US as Raskin Departs for New Role
SIX global head of client support Roger Bohrman, also a veteran of the company, succeeds Barry Raskin in US leadership role at data services provider
Bohrman Takes Over SIX US as Raskin Departs for Undisclosed New Role
SIX shuffles US executive team in wake of Raskin's departure.
CBOE Launches VIX Indexes on CME FX Contracts
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has begun calculating and distributing index values for three new foreign exchange volatility indexes based on CME Group-listed US dollar-euro, dollar-pounds sterling and dollar-Japanese yen futures options contracts.
Blackstone Takes Stake in Data Management-as-a-Service Startup MDI
Investment and public backing provides growth funding and validation of MDI's business model
Morningstar Shuffles Investment, Research Execs
Chicago-based market data and investment research provider Morningstar has appointed Daniel Needham president of the vendor's Morningstar Investment Management group, effective Monday, Feb. 2, in addition to his existing responsibilities as chief…
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…
Fitch Names Olert CRO
Fitch Group, the parent company of ratings agency Fitch Ratings, has appointed John Olert as group chief risk officer, a newly created role responsible for all types of risk that could impact the company's performance and reputation, reflecting "a more…