Articles by Max Bowie
2014 Review: Infrastructure Deals Drive M&A, Funding Activity in 2014
This year saw its fair share of mergers, acquisitions and investments, with some deals driven by expansion plans, others by strategic opportunism, and others spurred by unforeseen circumstances.
2014 Review: Industry Finds Ways to Derive Value from the Crowd
New datasets created using crowd-sourcing continued to grow in 2014, with new players entering the market with propositions to solicit crowd-sourced investor predictions that could provide leading indicators of market movements to institutional traders.
2014 Review: Cloud Makes Crucial Gains, Despite FinQloud Exit
The financial data industry continued to pursue cloud adoption in 2014 to achieve IT cost efficiencies and manage rising volumes of data, despite one of the key financial cloud players pulling out of the business.
2014 Review: Herd in Review: Bloomberg’s Back, and So Are Other Data Vets
January: Norwegian vendor Infront named Urs Rutschmann chief operating officer. Rutschmann was previously COO of Swedish trading systems vendor Tbricks. Fidessa promoted Emily Thomas to global head of new business sales, and hired Phil Jeffrey—former…
Opening Cross: Rudy the High-Speed Trader
Max presents a festive Christmas column for your entertainment
StatPro Adds Benchmark, Equity Valuation Pages to Revolution
Portfolio and data analytics provider StatPro has rolled out a December update to its Revolution data desktop, which includes upgraded benchmark pages, and new equity valuation and currency overlay pages.
4Cast Founder Park Sets up Consultancy
Rowland Park, founder of London-based real-time analysis and research vendor 4Cast, has left the company to set up a consulting firm, Park Horizon, focusing on providing strategic consulting services to startup software companies.
BMO Bows Xignite Data Distribution Platform
Canada's BMO Financial Group has rolled out San Mateo-based web services data provider Xignite's cloud-based Enterprise data distribution platform for centralizing and distributing vendor market and reference data.
Redline Taps Chen to Drive Product Development
Former Broadridge, Thomson Financial exec joins ticker plant vendor
Opening Cross: Location, Location, Consolidation and Diversification
Today’s data industry certainly isn’t that of 25 years ago, or even a dozen years ago when I started writing about it. A key difference is the change in pace of modern markets, shifting to low-latency trading where location—i.e. proximity of trading…
Quincy Taps O’Sullivan’s USAM for US Sales Push
Oakland, Calif-based low-latency microwave connectivity and market data provider Quincy Data is to use USAM Group—a New York-based outsourced sales agency recently set up by Feargal O’Sullivan, a former sales and solutions executive at NYSE Technologies,…
Sales Agency USAM Hires in NY, Chicago
Hires will allow USAM to offer outsourced sales agents in New York and Chicago to startups
Perseus Preps Mass-Market Precision Time-Synchronization Service
Data network and trading infrastructure provider Perseus Telecom is creating a lower-level version of its High Precision Time timestamping and clock synchronization service that can be easily ordered and provisioned online for use by a wider audience…
TickSmith Makes Tick Data Analysis Tools Available on Amazon Cloud
The move will make it easier for clients to deploy data analytics in their existing Amazon cloud platforms.
Data Boiler Taps Ex-Goldman Exec as CTO
Big Data management and analytics provider Data Boiler Technologies has hired former Goldman Sachs executive Homer Cheng as chief technology officer, based in Irvine, Calif.
Nasdaq Makes Perseus Timestamping Available in Carteret Datacenter
Availability of Perseus' timestamping service will give Nasdaq clients access to multiple timing protocols
NYSE Hit by FTP Data Issues
Outage impacted clients of FTP-delivered index and weightings data from NYSE
KVH Expands Japanese Subsea Cable Connectivity
Japanese network and hosting provider KVH has created a new network link that connects local networks in Tokyo and Osaka to the Shima Cable Landing Station, where mainland network providers can connect to undersea fiber network cables.
TMX's McCrea Joins Audit Specialists JCV
Former exchange exec will help grow JCV's audit and IPR protection business.
Genscape Buys Energy Fundamentals for European Power Analysis Expansion
Energy and commodities supply data provider Genscape has acquired Swiss power fundamental data and analysis provider Energy Fundamentals for an undisclosed sum, to extend its European offering by combining the vendor's analytics and scenario analysis…
AlphaSense Grabs Gunther for Sales
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of financial search, indexing and extraction technologies for structured and unstructured content, has hired John Gunther in New York as vice president of sales, responsible for driving growth of the vendor's…
Thomson Reuters Bags Sproehnle for Benchmarks
Tobias Sproehnle has joined Thomson Reuters in London as global head of benchmark services to head the vendor's global fixings business, responsible for administering more than 70 global benchmark indexes, including the LBMA Silver Price and the Libor…
McCoubrey Trades TIM for Predictive Retail Analytics
Dianne McCoubrey has left trade ideas platform vendor TIM Group, where she was regional sales director for the Americas, to become executive director of sales at Retalon, a provider of predictive analytics for retail inventory management, merchandising…
Cleartrade Bows Settlement Price Feed for CCPs
Commodity and freight futures market Cleartrade Exchange has begun offering a feed of daily settlement prices to its partner clearinghouses.