Articles by Max Bowie
Empirasign Adds Informa GM News Commentary to Dealer Runs
New York-based fixed income dealer offering data provider Empirasign Strategies has incorporated two news feeds from Informa Global Markets into its online portal that provides prices and trade color parsed from emails between dealers and counterparties,…
Moscow Exchange Taps Fincad for OTC Analytics
The Moscow Exchange has rolled out Vancouver-based over-the-counter deriveatives pricing and risk management software vendor Fincad's F3 Platform to allow quantitative analysts and credit officers at member trading firms to perform risk analysis, compute…
Genscape Grows Ship-Tracking Network
Energy supply data provider Genscape has expanded its VesselTracker shipping tracking and monitoring network with the addition of 436 new AIS (Automatic Identification System) antennas, allowing the vendor to more accurately collect information on ship…
Crédit Agricole Deploys Solace Appliances for Low-Latency Data
Crédit Agricole's Corporate and Investment Bank is rolling out data routing appliances from hardware-based messaging technology vendor Solace Systems to provide a low-latency data distribution backbone for its foreign exchange, rates and bonds trading…
Citihub Moves Scher to New Toronto Office
IT advisory firm Citihub Consulting has opened a new office in Toronto at 140 Yonge Street, and has relocated associate partner Greg Scher from New York to lead client engagements from the new office and better support Citihub's "growing base of…
Redline Adds Eurex, Euro Equities Feed Handler Support
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant and feed handler provider Redline Trading Solutions has expanded its European exchange data coverage, rounding out its support for European futures exchanges and adding to its ongoing development of feed…
Opening Cross: Data Can Fix Problems, Not Just Fixings
With the Libor-rigging scandal still fresh in our memories, pay gaps widening, and the current furor raging over the merits and fairness of high-frequency trading, it’s no surprise that the capital markets have something of a perception problem among the…
J&J Issues RFP for UTP SIP Administrator
Management and market data consultancy Jordan & Jordan has issued an RFP on behalf of the UTP Operating Committee to identify potential administrators of the UTP consolidated feed's securities information processor, following Nasdaq's decision at the…
1010data Gets Euro ABS, MBS Deals Data
Big Data analytics provider 1010data has added pool and loan-level European asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities to its database, via a partnership with European DataWarehouse, the European central repository for loan-level ABS data.
YCharts Unveils New-Look Platform with More Watchlists, Customization
Chicago-based fundamental analysis provider YCharts rolled out a new version of its web-based dashboard for professional users today, Wednesday, June 4, that makes more data readily available on users' main displays, and allows them to customize what…
TR Adds Indian Index to CRI/ESG Suite
Thomson Reuters has launched the CRI India 50 ESG Index, part of its family of Corporate Responsibility Indices that are based on the vendor's environmental, social and governance data, to provide a reference for investors seeking exposure to Indian…
NovaSparks Adds FPGA Handlers for ICE, Eurex Feeds
French FPGA feed handler and data appliance provider NovaSparks has rounded out its futures data offering with the addition of feed handlers for IntercontinentalExchange's iMpact feed and Eurex's Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI) feed.
Aequitas Taps LSE's MillenniumIT for Trading, Data
Startup Canadian exchange Aequitas Innovations has named the London Stock Exchange's MillenniumIT technology subsidiary to provide its exchange platforms, following a request-for-proposal process involving MillenniumIT and other vendors.
Solace Boosts Data Appliance Throughput with New Routers
Ottawa-based hardware messaging appliance provider Solace Systems has rolled out two new message routers and a new version of its operating system to support Big Data systems and cloud computing architectures.
Custom Connect Beams up Bevaart to CTO Role
Netherlands-based Custom Connect, a provider of carrier-neutral fiber and microwave connectivity services has appointed Rutger Bevaart as its new chief technology officer and lead architect, and has incorporated Bevaart's company, Xconnect24, a provider…
TOM MTF Bows Data on New Dutch Index
The TOM (The Order Machine) multilateral trading facility has launches a new total return index, the NL20 Index, which reflects performance of the 20 largest listed Dutch companies, designed to deliver "transparency, predictability, efficiency,…
Opening Cross: Everything Comes at a Cost, Even Cloud
Any discussion of return on investment relies on the ability to measure two things: the return generated, and the amount spent to achieve it. In the world of market data, the question is, “How much money can I make as a result of buying and using dataset…
Nasdaq Guts FinQloud, Amazon Web Services Gets Clients
Nasdaq OMX is scrapping parts of its FinQloud financial services-dedicated cloud computing service, handing off some components to partner Amazon Web Services—which provides the underlying cloud infrastructure—and ending support for other key aspects of…
Max Bowie: Same Cloud, Different Crowd
With still as many viewpoints on cloud computing as there are implementations, can cost benefits trump security concerns? Max asks whether recent cloud migrations by US regulators Finra and the Securities and Exchange Commission will help overcome these…
DataContent Bows SmartSuite Market Data Governance, Cost Analysis Service
UK- and Hong Kong-based data consultancy DataContent has created a data governance service, dubbed SmartSuite, that puts in place a series of processes for data consumers to establish relationships between datasets and their parent sources, and to…
Nasdaq Reports eSpeed Data Outage
One day after reporting the successful completion of migrating its eSpeed electronic treasuries market to the Nasdaq OMX datacenter in Carteret, NJ, Nasdaq experienced an interruption in eSpeed data this morning, May 29.
Empirasign Bows MyData Excel Integration Web Service
Empirasign Strategies, a New York-based provider of fixed income dealer offerings and trade color, has rolled out Empirasign MyData, which allows users to upload a list of bond tickers to Empirasign's website and have the vendor return updated prices for…
SIX Financial Info Pushes FISD FIA Certification
The US arm of Swiss data vendor SIX Financial Information has begun mandating that its client-facing staff achieve industry association FISD's Financial Information Associate (FIA) professional certification, to demonstrate the expertise of its employees.
Nasdaq Completes eSpeed Datacenter Migration
Nasdaq OMX's eSpeed US treasuries trading platform has completed its migration to Nasdaq's datacenter in Carteret, NJ, resulting in a 100 microsecond improvement in market data distribution, and a 25 percent improvement in roundtrip order-entry response…