Articles by Max Bowie
Opening Cross: Enterprise Messaging to Enterprise Management—It’s About Broadening Appeal
Pity my colleagues in London: Last Tuesday, workmen severed an ISDN cable in the street outside our office, cutting off all internet, phone, email and server access. Then on Wednesday, an explosion at an adjacent power sub-station forced a building…
Dow Jones Rebrands, Reorgs ‘Institutional’ Biz
Following a review of its Institutional Business strategy after the departure of former chief executive Lex Fenwick, Dow Jones has rebranded the division “Professional Information Business,” and has combined its previously-separate Consumer and…
Thomson Reuters Draws Drew for Platform Services
Thomson Reuters has hired Jeff Drew as enterprise proposition manager, responsible for strategy for its platform transactions business, supporting the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform and Elektron Managed Services propositions.
Thomson Reuters Adds Platts Data to DataScope
Thomson Reuters has added commodities market data from McGraw-Hill Financial-owned commodities and energy data provider Platts to its DataScope Select product to provide clients with increased transparency to support valuations, risk management and…
EDI Expands African Economic Database with Beta Client Feedback, Preps Options Corporate Actions Data
Exchange Data International, a London-based provider of pricing and reference data, is finalizing beta testing of its African Financial & Economic Data (AFED) database, and is in the middle of developing a new pricing and reference data product to help…
Update: Cape City Command Calls on Quinn, Barker
Wilmington, NC-based Cape City Command, a provider of appliances that analyze trading session latency and enable trading applications to route to the fastest sessions in real time, has bolstered its sales and development functions with the hires of Terry…
EDI Readies Derivatives Corporate Actions Tool
Pricing and reference data provider Exchange Data International has announced plans for Exchanged Traded Derivatives, a new service that will offer more than 30 types of corporate actions from derivatives instruments
ICE Begins ISDA Benchmark Calculation
ICE Benchmark Administration, the benchmark rate administration subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange, began its role as administrator of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association's ISDAFIX swaps rate benchmark on August 1, as agreed earlier…
Max Bowie: Colleagues, Consolidators, Where Are They Now?
As Waters bids farewell to one colleague and welcomes a new one in his place, Max wonders where the vendors have gone from the data industry’s glory days, and who will replace them.
Thomson Reuters Taps Celoxica Tech for FPGA Feed
Thomson Reuters has rolled out Elektron Direct Feed, a hardware-accelerated datafeed, using FPGA cards from UK-based data technology vendor Celoxica to deliver single-digit microsecond latency.
Opening Cross: Consumer Power, Or the Power of Consumer Data?
It has always seemed ironic to me that the building at 628 Broadway in New York City, now an Urban Outfitters store, was once home to the New York Mercantile Exchange, trading the very materials used to make the clothes sold in the building’s current…
Update: HP Vet Potter Joins Solarflare Board
High-performance network technology provider Solarflare has appointed Mark Potter, senior vice president and chief technology officer of hardware supplier HP's Enterprise Group, to its board of directors, to help "guide" the company to a leading position…
Redline Gets $5M VC Funds, Adds Ex-Thomson CEO Harrington to Board
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant and feed handler provider Redline Trading Solutions has raised $5 million in new funds from Cue Ball Group, a Boston-based venture capital firm chaired by Richard Harrington, the former president and chief…
Bloomberg Touts New Toronto Ticker
Bloomberg has gone live with a new ticker plant in Toronto, to provide financial firms with faster access to data captured from Canadian exchanges, reducing latency by 71 percent compared to its previous offering.
Barchart Rolls Out Canadian Securities Exchange Data
Chicago-based data and analytics vendor Barchart has added market data from the Canadian Securities Exchange to its data services.
Colt Hires Net Vet Hutchinson as US Capital Markets Director
UK-based telecom provider Colt has hired Julie Hutchinson as US director of capital markets, responsible for developing its US capital markets business by helping US content providers, trading firms and platform providers to expand their presence to…
Opening Cross: Strength in Numbers—A History Lesson in Surviving The Data Purge
This week, our New York office has been gearing up for Purge Day, when we purge our desks of papers and items that we no longer need, and in return the company buys us a pizza lunch. In preparing for Purge Day, clearing out a closet of old copies of…
NuPont Integrates Aussie Tech Firm for Asia-Pac IT Support Services
Market data and technology product and marketing consultancy NuPont is planning to begin offering technical support and development services via an operation in Australia to provide support for consulting clients seeking to expand into new markets.
Money.net Adds ETF, Mutual Funds Data, Bows Mobile Apps
New York-based low-cost market data display vendor Money.net has added new content to its datasets and has rolled out native mobile apps to accompany its data desktop and web-based terminals, and is planning significant analytics enhancements for future…
Altibase, Microstrategy Ally for In-Memory/Disk Hybrid Data ‘Marts'
In-memory database provider Altibase has unveiled a partnership with business intelligence and analytics software provider MicroStrategy that creates a high-performance business intelligence environment for data availability and analysis in real time,…
Morningstar Adds 20 Markets to Consolidated Feeds
The real-time division of data and investment research provider Morningstar has added data from more than 20 new marketplaces to its consolidated feeds, in response to client demand, particularly from online brokerages and wealth managers in North…
Thomson Reuters Adds BGC OTC Data
Thomson Reuters is making real-time over-the-counter data from interdealer broker BGC Partners available via its Eikon desktop, its Elektron Real Time feeds infrastructure, and its Tick History and DataScope Select products, to increase OTC data…
HKEx Shuffles Senior Info Execs
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has named Roger Lee head of its new Market Operations group, which comprises cash and derivatives trading and market data.
EDI Adds African Central Bank Data to AFED Database
UK-based data provider Exchange Data International has added African Central Bank economic data to its African Financial and Economic Data (AFED) online database of macroeconomic data, which the vendor launched in May.