Articles by Max Bowie
EFIS 2014: Tighten Inventory Controls, Seek New Sources to Combat Cost Pressures, Says User Panel
Trading and investment firms still facing budget pressures are being more proactive about managing data costs, but are also being forced to be more proactive about seeking out new, cheaper alternative sources of data and managing their data usage to…
Redline Opens Windows to InRush Ticker
Woburn, Mass.-based feed handler and ticker plant vendor Redline Trading Solutions has added support for the Microsoft Windows Server platform to its InRush ticker plant, which previously only ran on the Linux operating system, to open up the vendor's…
EFIS 2014: CDO Role Must Focus on Data Transparency, Panel Says
Making data ownership and costs simple and transparent to business users will result in lower costs and better data quality, and should be a key focus of chief data officers, said a panel of CDOs, who spoke at this week's European Financial Information…
Barchart Adds Analytics to Trader
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart.com has added advanced options analysis and an options strategy builder tool to its Barchart Trader desktop and mobile market data and trading platform for commodity, equity and foreign exchange market…
Allianz Allies with Thomson Reuters for Bond Pricing
German banking and insurance giant Allianz is to use Thomson Reuters' independent pricing service to meet the firm's fixed income pricing data needs around valuation and meeting international accounting standards.
Plunkett Joins WhaleWisdom for BizDev
WhaleWisdom, an aggregator of investor holdings data from 13F, 13D and 13G Edgar filings, recently hired Brent Plunkett as vice president of business development and a partner in the business with founder Daniel Collins, to market and improve the user…
Celoxica Gets £1.5M Funding to Grow Global Presence, Segments
Celoxica, a London-based provider of FPGA-accelerated low-latency data, trading and risk technologies, has raised £1.5 million in funding from Beringea Growth Finance, a private equity firm specializing in asset-based and working capital finance.
FT Taps Morningstar for Print Price Data
The Financial Times has enlisted the UK arm of Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar to supply the price data in the back pages of its daily Companies & Markets section, as part of a new look for the newspaper, starting today,…
TMX Bows Short Sale Data Report
TMX Datalinx, the market data division of Canadian exchange group TMX, has begun publishing a daily Short Sale Summary that provides a consolidated summary of short selling activity for each security in the S&P/TSX Composite Index trading on the Toronto…
Victory Networks Bows US Feed Handlers
Chicago-based low-latency data and trading infrastructure provider Victory Networks is taking the wraps off a set of low-latency feed handlers for the US equities, futures and equity options markets, dubbed SpeedEdge, which the vendor says will offer an…
Opening Cross: Data Is as Much About Getting Together as Getting It Together!
This week, all eyes will be on London and Inside Market Data’s European Financial Information Summit, which promises its usual array of lively panel discussions and roundtable debates. These events—which IMD holds in key market centers worldwide…
Trendrating Unveils Index Strategy Optimization Module
Swiss momentum ratings and analytics provider Trendrating has added an Index Builder module to its recently launched Momentum Analytics Platform, to support alpha-capture strategies for active fund managers and beta models for index fund managers by…
BGC 'Brokers' $12M in Sept. 11 Donations
Interdealer broker BGC Partners and its Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate raised about $12 million for charity Thursday, Sept. 11 during a star-studded charity day that sees the firms donate all revenues generated that day by its brokerage operations around…
ICE's SuperDerivatives Buy Welcomed, Though Integration Details Still Unclear
Less than a calendar quarter after selling one data technology business──NYSE Technologies' Wombat platform──to SR Labs (IMD, June 18, 2014), Intercontinental Exchange acquired another in the form of derivatives pricing and risk management vendor…
Tabb Unveils Trade Routing, Fill Rate Analysis Service to Improve Buy-Side Execution
Research firm Tabb Group has unveiled a new trade data and routing analysis service, dubbed Clarity, that will help market participants monitor and benchmark the impact on execution price performance of routing strategies for US equities that include…
Tabb Delivers ‘Clarity’ with Trade Data, Routing, Fill Rate Analytics
Research firm Tabb Group has unveiled a new trade data and routing analysis service, dubbed Clarity, that will help market participants monitor and benchmark the impact on execution price performance of routing strategies for US equities trades that…
CME Lifts LSE's Stuart for Sales
CME Group has hired former London Stock Exchange exec Ross Stuart as senior director of information products management.
EidoSearch Upgrades Predictive Front End
Toronto-based predictive analytics provider EidoSearch has rolled out a new interface that makes it easier for end users to perform analytics on Big Data via a desktop browser or mobile device.
Shenzhen Exchange Taps Kx for Trade Analytics
The Shenzhen Stock Exchange's Laboratory for Financial Innovation-which produces market performance reports on metrics relating to the exchange's operations-is to roll out Palo Alto, Calif.-based tick database provider Kx Systems' database and time…
CFN Buys Microwave Network to Enter Chicago-NY RF Data Fray
Low-latency fiber network provider CFN Services has unveiled an ultra-low-latency microwave connectivity network that transports CME Group market data between Chicago and New York with latency of between 8.4 and 8.7 milliseconds──5.5 milliseconds faster…
CFN Snares Scott for Sales
Low-latency fiber and microwave network provider CFN Services has hired Guy Scott as vice president of global sales for capital markets, responsible for sales activities supporting continued expansion of the vendor's Alpha Platform hosted trading…
Exegy Grows FX Feed Handlers
St. Louis, Mis.-based hardware ticker plant appliance vendor Exegy has expanded its range of foreign exchange feed handlers with support for six new FX datafeeds from brokers and trading platforms.
Perseus Begins Global Data Net Expansion
New York-based low-latency network provider Perseus Telecom is expanding its LiquidPath data connectivity service from focusing on providing connectivity between the US and South American markets to primary market centers worldwide, followed by second…
Aqumin Taps Calgary Scientific for Web-, Mobile-Enabled Analytics
Houston, Texas-based data visualization software vendor Aqumin has enlisted Calgary Scientific, a Canadian provider of web-enablement technologies and medical imaging software, to enable Aqumin to run its data-intensive “cityscape” displays in a browser…