Articles by Max Bowie
Dow Jones' Smith to Head B2B Professional Products
Dow Jones has appointed New York-based Dan Smith head of the vendor's Professional Information Business product team, which covers its DJX terminal, Risk & Compliance offering, Dow Jones Newswires and Factiva.
Chi-X Canada Taps TickSmith for Tick Database
Toronto-based alternative trading system Chi-X Canada plans to roll out an online service for market participants to access its historical trade and quote data within the coming months, using technology developed by Montreal-based historical tick data…
Opening Cross: Declare Your Independence from Traditional Data Uses
While the majority of Inside Market Data’s coverage has traditionally centered around the use of data to directly support trading activities—such as the transmission of prices via datafeeds or terminal displays to traders and trading applications—and…
Telx Opens Third NYC Datacenter
Datacenter and hosting provider Telx has completed construction of a new 72,000 square foot datacenter at 32 Sixth Avenue, one year after first announcing the project (IMD, July 17, 2013).
RVS Appoints Elmer New CEO
Rate Validation Services, a provider of benchmark rate pricing services with offices in Singapore, London and Australia, recently named Lachlan Elmer chief executive, following the departure of former CEO Kevin Milne earlier this year.
BOAT Sails from Markit to Cinnober
Cinnober, a Swedish provider of exchange trading platforms and related market technologies, has acquired the Markit Trade Reporting service (also known as BOAT), and has taken over full responsibility for the over-the-counter trade reporting platform and…
Thomson Reuters to Step Up UBS Index Data Integration, Post-Acquisition
Thomson Reuters says it will continue to distribute data on the UBS Convertible Indexes via its Eikon terminal, Elektron network and datafeeds, after acquiring the convertible bond benchmarks from UBS, renaming them the Thomson Reuters Convertible…
Thomson Reuters Renews, Adds to Icap Swaps Data Deal
Thomson Reuters has renewed a long-standing contract to distribute price data on US Treasury bonds and US dollar-denominated interest rate swaps from interdealer broker Icap via the page 19901 service on its Eikon desktop for an undisclosed term, and is…
RVS Incorporates OTC "Trade Evidence" into Rates Pricing
Benchmark rate pricing software vendor Rate Validation Services has launched a "trade-evidenced data service," dubbed Creator, which provides clients with consensus contributions, adjusted using actual executed trade data.
Startup Trendrating Gets $1M Funding Boost
Switzerland-based Trendrating, a provider of price trend and momentum ratings for equities, exchange-traded funds, indexes and currencies, has raised $1 million in seed funding--including an undisclosed sum from the investment fund run by former Thomson…
Mergermarket Completes £26M Perfect Info Buy
Financial publisher Mergermarket Group has closed its acquisition of London-based corporate data provider Perfect Information for £26 million from business publisher Centaur Media.
BATS Readies Consolidated BATS-Direct Edge Feed
BATS Global Markets is preparing to release a feed of market data that provides a base of information from all four equities markets run by its BATS and Direct Edge exchanges, following the merger of the two exchange operators at the start of this year.
Opening Cross: Forget ‘Keep it Simple, Stupid.’ Think KIDD—’Keep it Diversified, Dummy"
The market data business is increasingly governed by the need to diversify to respond to market and investment trends. Trading firms seeking exposure to new opportunities diversify the datasets they consume in search of the one that will give them an…
UPDATE: LSE Eyes FTSE-Russell Index Data Combo
The London Stock Exchange plans to consolidate the index calculation and data distribution platforms of its FTSE index subsidiary with those of US-based index provider Russell Indexes—and may migrate the index platforms to proprietary LSE technologies,…
Max Bowie: Data Wizards Must Be Ready For an Unexpected Journey
The level of innovation among providers of data tools and services is often measured by the new products they create. But Max says innovation also takes place at the end-user level as firms find increasingly creative ways put those products to new and…
1010Data Incorporates TransUnion Credit Data
Big Data analytics and database provider 1010Data has added monthly loan-level credit data from credit bureau TransUnion, mapped to pools of mortgage-backed securities and risk-share securities issued by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.'s (Freddie…
Solarflare Bows Data-Ordering Timestamps, Preps Security Adds
Hardware acceleration and data network technology vendor Solarflare has rolled out a timestamping API as part of its technology stack that ensures data is processed in the correct order, and is planning additions to its range of security tools designed…
Capita Begins Rolling Out StatPro Revolution Analytics to Asset Managers
London-based fund administrator Capita Asset Services has begun providing clients with access to portfolio data and analytics software vendor StatPro's Revolution cloud-based analytics tool, to offer its customers more interactive reporting and analysis…
Interactive Data Taps Gartland To Lead Evaluated Pricing
Bill Gartland, formerly of TradingScreen, has been hired as senior director of Interactive Data's new Continuous Evaluations service
Interactive Data Gets Gartland for Real-Time Evaluated Pricing Service
Interactive Data has hired industry veteran Bill Gartland as senior director of the vendor's new Continuous Evaluations service, which will provide continuously-updating prices for fixed income securities.
Cambridge Semantics Bows User-Level Data Mapping, Integration Tool
Cambridge Semantics, a Boston-based provider of web and data integration technologies, has unveiled a version of its Anzo data platform aimed at allowing firms to quickly create semantic data models and integrate data based on those models.
KVH Taps MarketPrizm for Asia Co-Lo, Global Network Access
Japanese network and datacenter provider KVH will begin making access to Colt Telecom-owned market data and trading infrastructure vendor MarketPrizm's PrizmNet financial extranet available via its datacenters from July.
Noble Swaps BlueMatrix for Citi
Sara Noble has joined Citigroup as vice president of research distribution, responsible for managing the bank's global research distribution channel partnerships and improving buy-side clients' experience via those channels.
Opening Cross: What’s the Most Important Tool in Your Box?
The most useful article in my toolbox isn’t a wrench or a multi-tool: it’s a magic potion originally invented to support the space program, known today simply as WD40. Though its inventors may not have envisaged it becoming a household name, the spray…