Articles by Max Bowie
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…
Max Bowie: Does HFT ‘Debate’ Detract from True Tech Innovation?
HFT has been grabbing the headlines, but, Max wonders, is it merely hijacking the limelight from companies that deserve greater recognition for new developments?
Wall Street Network Solutions Adds Cuttone, Callanan to Board
New York-based low-latency infrastructure provider Wall Street Network Solutions has named Donato Cuttone and Annie Callanan to its corporate advisory board.
YCharts Splits Charting Capabilities, Preps Expanded ETF, Mutual Fund Data
Chicago-based fundamental data analysis platform provider YCharts has released enhancements to its charting capabilities, and is planning to add further capabilities and content in the coming weeks and months to broaden its appeal to existing and new…
ISDA Taps ICE Benchmark Admin to Run ISDAFIX Benchmark
Derivatives industry body the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has appointed ICE Benchmark Administration, the IntercontinentalExchange-owned independent benchmark operator that already acts as the new administrator for the LIBOR benchmark…
Dash Departs Bloomberg Indexes
Srikant Dash has left his role as global head of indexes at Bloomberg, Inside Market Data has learned.
Data Vet Farrell Joins FX Trading Tech Vendor Integral
Palo Alto, Calif.-based foreign exchange trading technology provider Integral Development has hired Richard Farrell as managing director in charge of new client segments, with responsibility for expanding the vendor's products into new business areas.
Opening Cross: Innovation Isn’t Just About Being Faster; It’s About Being Smarter and Better
The recent furor over high-frequency trading prompted by Michael Lewis’ book Flash Boys has led many to think that the only source of innovation in financial markets is making things faster, so that some kind of banker-sandman phantom can steal Granny’s…
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Belzberg Founders Hatch Twitter Analysis Tool
Infinigon Group, the social media analytics startup created by Belzberg Technologies founders Sid and Alicia Belzberg, is beginning to roll out its financial markets-focused Echo service that monitors Twitter activity to identify price-impacting…
Swift Unveils Revamped Payments Reference Data Tool
International payments utility Swift has unveiled a new version of its Bankers World Online directory─part of its SwiftRef payments reference data suite─that now includes broader coverage and datasets, such as Business Identification Codes (BICs),…
Fincad Bows F3 Valuation, Analytics Platform
Canadian over-the-counter derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor Fincad has rolled out its F3 platform for enterprise valuation and risk analytics, which provides views of risk, margin and collateral requirements across an enterprise,…
Tradier Gets $3M Funding to Expand API, Developer Base
Cloud-based brokerage platform and supporting data, trading and analytics application hosting environment provider Tradier has raised $3 million in new funding from Devonshire Investors-the private investment arm of Fidelity Investments' owners, the…
FTSE-TMX Index JV Preps LatAm Indexes
FTSE TMS Global Debt Capital Markets, the index joint venture between London Stock Exchange-owned index provider FTSE and Canadian exchange group TMX, is preparing to launch a family of Latin American indexes, in partnership with Mexico-based pricing…
Direct Edge Expands Attributed Quote Program
BATS Global Markets' Direct Edge Exchange is expanding its attributed trading program to allow participating firms to show their order flow as being comprised of retail orders, rather than revealing their identity.
Nasdaq Bows Managed Reporting, New Fees for BONO, ITTO Options Data
Nasdaq OMX has introduced a new distribution option and accompanying fees for data from its Nasdaq Options Market's Best of Nasdaq Options (BONO) and ITCH to Trade Options (ITTO) feeds that allows distributor firms to redistribute the data to consumer…
xCelor Adds FPGA Filtering, ‘Muxing’ to Single-Digit Nanosecond Switch
Chicago-based low-latency switch and data technology provider xCelor has released a new version of its XPM switch series, XPM², that allows users to run their own applications on the switch itself, and adds features for filtering incoming multicast…
Estimize Hires Product, Design Heads
Estimize, a New York-based provider of crowd-sourced earnings estimates and mergers and acquisitions predictions, recently hired Josh Dulberger as head of product and analytics, and Cynthia Koo as head of design, to support the creation of its new…
Twitter Buys Tweet Data Distributor Gnip to Grow Social Data Biz
Social media microblogging site Twitter has acquired Boulder, Colo.-based social media aggregator Gnip for an undisclosed sum.
CenturyLink Taps Misbin for Co-Lo Marketing
CenturyLink Technology Solutions (formerly Savvis) has hired Judy Misbin as a product marketing executive for the vendor's co-location services, responsible for marketing its hybrid infrastructure solutions that include co-location, managed services,…