Articles by Max Bowie
Opening Cross: Market Data Meteorologists: Forecasting the Many Faces of Cloud
Over 200 years ago, British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard laid the foundations for the classification of clouds used today, which, in their various forms, can resemble anything from gauzy material shrouding the sky, to flying saucers,…
After RFP, OPRA Renews SIAC SIP Deal
The Options Price Reporting Authority has concluded its tender process to find a technology supplier to manage its Securities Information Processor (SIP), and is expected to re-sign with incumbent provider SIAC (the Securities Industry Automation Corp.,…
NAFIS 2014: ‘Compliance Consumer' is Drain on Data Resources, Users Say
End-user firms are feeling the pressure of not just complying with new regulations, but also of meeting the data management burden to support compliance, making experienced market data staff and business analysts ever-more valuable, said panelists at…
NAFIS 2014: Niche Data Proliferation Poses Cost Challenges
Though the number of major data vendors has consolidated considerably over the past 15 years, a growing number of niche suppliers is making it tougher for market data professionals to manage data licensing, and making it even more important to maintain…
IMD Awards Show Increasingly Competitive Vendor Landscape; Bloomberg Leads with Five Wins
Bloomberg scooped five categories at the Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards on the evening of Wednesday, May 21, though the battle for second and third place in the tally was more competitive, with several vendors winning multiple awards.
Altibase Looks to NFV, SDN for Data Security Uses
In-memory database provider Altibase is working to incorporate Network Functions Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking to its products to serve a range of use cases, including data security.
Nous Expands Asset Classes, Adds Feed to Trading ‘Game'
Startup mobile trading application and data provider Nous has expanded the asset classes available for trading on its Spark Profit trading game--which the vendor uses to collect consumer investment predictions for use by institutional traders--and has…
ITG Bows Peer Analytics Data Tools
Broker and research provider ITG has unveiled its Peer Analytics Suite, which comprises a range of datasets and analytical tools ranging from raw trade data to detailed performance reporting and consulting engagements, aimed at helping institutional…
S&P CapIQ Taps Fitch's Smith to Head New Credit Data-Ratings Biz
S&P Capital IQ has created a new business area, dubbed S&P Credit Solutions, that combines the vendor's analytics, research and data with ratings data from Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, and has hired former Fitch exec Neil Smith to lead the new…
Bloomberg Adds Full-Depth Direct Edge Data
Bloomberg has begun making full-depth Level 2 market data from BATS Global Markets' Direct Edge exchange available via its Bloomberg Professional terminal and B-Pipe datafeed to existing subscribers to Direct Edge's Level 1 data.
Citihub Opens Zurich Office, Hires Dudgeon in US
Technology and market data consultancy Citihub Consulting has expanded its consulting team with a new office in Switzerland and a senior hire in New York to grow its business in both regions.
Opening Cross: This Year’s Data Oscars Are Gonna Be Monster!
The latest big-budget Godzilla movie, which has just opened in the US may be unlikely to pick up any awards at next year’s Oscars, but is still my most-anticipated movie of 2014. I don’t consider myself at the mega-geek level of sci-fi aficionados (I…
Empirasign Unveils Enterprise Data Integration Platform
New York-based Empirasign Strategies, a provider of fixed income dealer offerings and trade color, has unveiled a new integration platform, dubbed Empirasign Enterprise, that allows users to combine data from their internal databases with Empirasign’s…
New Constructs Revises Mutual Fund, ETF Rankings
New Constructs, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of independent research and stock recommendations based on analysis of footnotes in financial statements, has revamped the way it rates mutual funds and exchange-traded funds to deliver more value to…
Tradier Offers Discounted MotiveWave Analytics Access
Cloud-based brokerage platform Tradier is offering clients access to analytics provider MotiveWave's tools at discounted rates or free of charge, depending on the level of trading they conduct via the platform.
Scivantage Integrates TickSmith Tick Data
Online brokerage technology provider Scivantage has incorporated Montreal-based startup tick data provider TickSmith Corp.'s historical intraday and end-of-day tick data into its Scivantage Investor brokerage platform to provide its clients with…
Burton-Taylor Seeks to Grow Survey Sample for Industry Report
Data consultancy and industry research firm Burton-Taylor International Consulting has opened the survey period for its annual report, which details industry spending growth on data services by region and job function, and is urging more firms to…
Xenomorph Readies Marketplace of Third-Party Data Services
UK-based data management and analytics software provider Xenomorph is rolling out a portal of APIs and connectivity tools that will enable data consumers to access Web Services-based data sources for use in their internal applications or the vendor's…
Under Attack: Is Real-Time Data Safe from Hackers?
With recent data breaches such as US retailer Target falling victim to point-of-sale customer data theft and AOL email passwords being compromised grabbing the headlines, it's easy to understand why consumers are paranoid about data privacy. With the…
S&P Cap IQ Adds Numerix Pricing Models
S&P Capital IQ has incorporated pricing models from derivatives analytics, valuation and risk management software vendor Numerix into its Portfolio Risk solution, building on an existing multi-year agreement between Numerix and R2 Financial Technologies,…
Options Nabs Another NYSE Tech Exec, Richard Hughes
Options, the infrastructure-as-a-service provider formerly known as Options IT, has hired Richard Hughes, formerly global head of business development at NYSE Technologies, as senior vice president and managing director for Europe, based in London, and…
SIX Provides Global Data to Mexico's Infosel
Mexican data vendor Infosel has enlisted the US arm of Swiss data provider SIX Financial Information as a content partner to provide the Mexico City-based vendor with global market data to serve its clients at asset managers, pension funds and broker…
Opening Cross: Testing Times? Consider Lifelong Data Learning
From the day we are born until the day we die, there are always opportunities to learn something new. Once upon a time, your learning largely ended whenever you left school, and training meant learning how not to get killed or maimed by whatever…
Standard Chartered ‘Embraces’ FISD Data Training
Singapore-based Standard Chartered Bank has adopted industry association FISD’s Financial Information Associate (FIA) certification program as its formal training standard for market data staff in its resourcing operations spread across other parts of…