Articles by Max Bowie
Data Vets Sigillo, Johnson Establish MDI ‘Data Management-as-a-Service’ Practice
Market data management veterans Rich Sigillo and Cindy Johnson have set up a new company focused on providing market data expense management and optimization as a managed service for firms that are not large enough to have a dedicated market data…
Eris Puts Futures Trade Data Online
Futures marketplace Eris Exchange recently began making real-time trade data available via a "Trade Recap" page on its website.
TR Expands Mobile Support for ‘Anywhere' Wealth App
Thomson Reuters has added support for new wireless platforms to its Thomson One Anywhere dynamic mobile site for its Wealth Management clients, including iPhone, Android and Blackberry Z10 smartphones.
OTAS Adds Customization, Text Generation to Analytics Platform
New OTAS Views feature will provide greater customization for clients.
Icap Bows End-of-Day Equity Derivatives Pricing Curves
Service will provide investment managers with valuation tools to conduct portfolio analysis and hedge risk.
Estimize Adds Analyst Confidence Score to Estimates Platform
Signal will give analysts greater confidence in estimates-based trading strategies.
Big Data Analytics Vendor VoltDB Hires Ex-HP, Vertica, Greenplum Exec
VoltDB, a Big Data analytics and database vendor co-founded by StreamBase and Vertica founder Michael Stonebraker, has hired Shyam Sundar as head of sales for Asia Pacific, to expand the vendor's presence in the region.
FINRA, MSRB Push for Bond Reference Price Disclosure
Industry rulemaking bodies FINRA and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board are seeking comments from the industry on proposals to make bond dealers disclose same-day trade prices in the same security on trade confirmations sent to clients for retail…
Opening Cross: In Search of Data’s ‘Perfect Harmony’
Against the often-discordant melody of the financial markets, it’s good to know that there’s always a harmony playing in the background to support that melody, hold everything together, and ensure we’re all singing from the same songbook, rather than…
SmartMarketData Preps for Jobs Data Analytics
Startup data provider SmartMarketData is preparing to enter the second phase of its launch, where it will develop proprietary analytics to accompany the datasets it distributes, to make it easier for investment professionals beyond quantitative analysts…
Ukrainian Exchange Eyes Data Policy Harmonization with Moscow Exchange
The move would bring the exchanges in line from a policy perspective, as well as a technical perspective.
Chi-X Australia Hires NuPont's Lampropoulos for Market Data
Industry vet's resume includes Chi-X, Alpha Exchange, StatPro, Reuters, Macquarie, Bankers Trust and Pont
Deutsche Börse Adds Cleartrade Data to CEF Feed
Data alliance will make it easier for traders and vendors to connect to Cleartrade data
BM&F, S&P DJI Ally for Brazilian Indexes
Indexes will serve as the basis for the creation of investable products and potential asset class expansion.
Estimize Brings Crowd-Sourced Estimates to Excel
Plug-in will enable use of vendor's crowd-sourced estimates data in spreadsheet models
Moscow Exchange Preps Datacenter Move
Exchange begins 18-month datacenter migration from multiple facilities to single Moscow datacenter
'Social' Trading Firm 8 Securities Gets Funding for Mobile Wealth Platform
Hong Kong-based trading firm 8 Securities, which captures data from social media sources and allows participants to crowd-source trading ideas from other analysts on the platform, has raised $8.7 million in Series B financing to accelerate its mobile…
SolarFlare Sheds Light on Network Capture Through ‘SolarSystem'
Hardware acceleration and network technology provider Solarflare has released a new network data capture platform, dubbed Capture SolarSystem, which captures network and query activity and statistics.
Centralization Proving Key To Data Management
Benchmark Data Costs Can Be Reduced By Managed Services, Roundtable Panelists Say
Opening Cross: The ’Center of the Data Universe
With coverage of our Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference taking center stage in this week’s Inside Market Data, debating new initiatives such as the planned Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program—and its unexpected, indefinite delay—and the…
Rimes Panel Tackles Rising Data Management Costs
Cost, data quality and data management needs drive managed services debate.
APFIC 2014: Big Data in Big Demand, But Still Big Challenge
While specific use cases for Big Data technologies vary across an organization, demand for the capability to consume, process and analyze increasingly large volumes of data is ubiquitous across trading firms' front, middle and back offices, according to…
DealVector Adds SCI Prices to ‘BWIC Board'
DealVector will make SCI data available free of charge for a 30-day period
Perseus Sets Up Irish Ops Center
Fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom has set up a network operations center in Galway, Ireland to provide 24/7 operations support for the vendors clients 365 days per year to support the vendor’s managed network services.