Articles by Max Bowie
Citic Taps Fincad F3 for New Equity Derivatives Unit
Chinese investment bank Citic Securities has rolled out Canadian OTC derivatives pricing and risk software vendor Fincad's F3 analytics platform to support the bank's growing equity derivatives business in Hong Kong and Mainland China.
IDC Names Goldman Sachs' Black Infrastructure CIO
Interactive Data has appointed former Goldman Sachs executive James Black as chief information officer for infrastructure, a newly created role reporting to company CIO Alex Goor.
S&P DJI to Manage Mexican Exchange Indexes
S&P Dow Jones Indices has licensed all the indexes produced by Mexican stock exchange Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV), and will assume responsibility for marketing and commercially licensing the indexes, while working with BMV on the development of new…
Solace Adds to Sales in UK, Asia
Canadian messaging appliance vendor Solace Systems has expanded its sales teams in Europe and Asia with the hires of David Eden as regional account director in London and Danny Papadatos as regional vice president of sales for Asia and Australia in…
Opening Cross: Data Dilemmas Will Be Just Fine... If You Read the Fine Print
The financial markets are full of nostalgic tales about how deals used to be done on a handshake in the street. Unfortunately—or perhaps fortunately, depending on your point of view—those days are gone. Now, there’s a paper trail for everything—in fact,…
Market Prophit Preps Full Launch, Fees
Social media sentiment analysis provider Market Prophit is preparing to emerge from its beta testing phase and begin charging fees for its service in September, chief executive Igor Gonta tells Inside Market Data.
Fitch Hires Vendor Vet Filanowski as Global Product Head
Fitch solutions, the software and data arm of ratings agency Fitch, has hired former Bloomberg exec Brian Filanowski as managing director and global product head, responsible for the delivery and expansion of current and new analytical tools from Fitch…
Tradier Bows No-Cost ‘Sandbox' Environment for Startup Developers
Tradier, a cloud-based brokerage platform operator and provider of a supporting data, trading and analytics application hosted environment, has unveiled a new service, dubbed Tradier Developer Sandbox, aimed at startup developers that find it hard and…
TS-Associates Enters Administration, Velocimetrics Takes Over IP, Tech Team
Latency monitoring technology provider Velocimetrics has acquired an exclusive license to sell and maintain the Precision Instrumentation product range developed by UK-based latency monitoring technology provider TS-Associates, which has entered…
Diliger Hires Data Vets Clark, Humby, Cartledge
Startup London-based market data procurement platform provider Diliger has hired three market data industry procurement and consulting experts to bolster its team and support an "aggressive agenda" for its data solutions sourcing business, officials say.
Eccleston Departs S&P Capital IQ
Lou Eccleston, president of S&P Capital IQ and chairman of the board of S&P Dow Jones Indices, left the companies' parent group, McGraw-Hill Financial, on Monday, July 14.
Black is the New Black for MSCI Canada
Index provider MSCI has hired Lindsay Black as vice president of its equity index business in Toronto, responsible for relationship management with local asset managers, broker-dealers and hedge funds.
Bloomberg-Rebranded UBS Indexes Continue Availability on Rimes BDS
Managed benchmark data services provider Rimes Technologies has added Bloomberg index data from Bloomberg to the range of data sources available via its Benchmark Data Service, which provides cloud-based data collection, validation, transformation,…
Boston Consulting Group Hires McGraw-Hill Exec Teschner
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has hired former McGraw-Hill strategy executive Charles Teschner as head of capital markets for North America, to lead the consultancy's team advising financial institutions in the region.
FX ECN Spotex Taps Solace for Data Messaging
Spotex, a foreign exchange trading ECN that launched in June, has confirmed it is using Ottawa-based hardware messaging appliance vendor Solace Systems' routing technologies to provide low-latency messaging for price and trade data between trading…
Opening Cross: Looking for Data (and Beer) in All the Right Places
Over the July 4 long weekend, I strolled around the new residential skyscrapers built along the Long Island City waterfront, and the redeveloped Gantry Plaza State Park overlooking the East River and the UN building. A few blocks inland, in a parking lot…
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Tick Data Bows Cloud Data Storage, Access
Historical tick-level trade and quote data provider Tick Data has introduced cloud-hosted options to allow firms without large IT and storage infrastructures to access and run analytics on the vendor's full tick history.
ITRS Names Former FTSE Exec Warren CEO
ITRS Group, a London-based provider of real-time systems monitoring and management technology, has hired Guy Warren as chief executive, replacing Kevin Covington, who will continue to serve as a senior advisor to ITRS after more than five years as CEO.
Credit Benchmark Raises $7M, Unveils Consensus Ratings Service
London-based Credit Benchmark, a startup provider of consensus credit rating data, has raised $7 million to support the ongoing production rollout of its data service by funding new hires and the opening of a new office in New York.
SGX Moves Forward with HKEx Partnership, Opens Local Derivatives Office
The Singapore Exchange has opened its "liquidity hub" point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's datacenter-the first step in a series of moves to facilitate closer cooperation between the exchanges, including setting up PoPs in each…
SGX Unveils PoP at HKEx, Opens Local Derivatives Office
The Singapore Exchange has opened its "liquidity hub" point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's datacenter--the first step in a series of moves to facilitate closer cooperation between the exchanges, including setting up PoPs in each…
NovaSparks, Thesys Ally for Accelerated Data
French FPGA feed handler and data platform provider NovaSparks and New York-based Thesys Technologies, a provider of low-latency data, trading and risk solutions have integrated their offerings so mutual clients can apply the performance gains of…