Articles by Max Bowie
Morningstar Promotes Holt to Lead Equity, Credit Research
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar has appointed Michael Holt global head of equity and corporate credit research in Chicago, with responsibility for a global team of about 120 research analysts, reporting to Haywood Kelly,…
TradeMonster Preps Mobile Futures Scanner
Chicago-based online broker TradeMonster is planning to expand its mobile data and trading platform to cover futures and options on futures markets in the third quarter of this year, and will add futures to its LiveAction mobile market scanning tool next…
S&P Cap IQ Boosts Content Acquisition, Partners Unit
McGraw-Hill Financial's S&P Capital IQ division has made three senior hires to its Content Acquisition and Strategic Alliances (CASA) unit, to strengthen the team as the vendor prepares to expand its function to include oversight of content acquisition…
Infinigon Taps Watkins to Grow Sales
New York-based Infinigon Group, a provider of social media analytics aimed at traders and risk managers set up by Belzberg Technologies founders Alicia and Sid Belzberg, has hired Dan Watkins as head of global sales and marketing.
Perfect Info Bows Filings Expert, Puts Emphasis on Simplified Search
UK-based Perfect Information, a provider of company and financial data, has released a new web-based interface dubbed Filings Expert that makes it easier for analysts, lawyers, and mergers and acquisitions or equity and debt capital markets professionals…
NYSE Preps Standalone Amex, Arca Complex Order Book Options Feeds
NYSE Euronext will break out complex order book data for its NYSE Amex Options and NYSE Arca Options markets into two standalone and separately-billable and -reportable datafeeds, NYSE Amex Options COB and NYSE Arca Options COB, from May 1.
cPacket Enlists Newgen in Australasia
Mountain View, Calif.-based network monitoring technology provider cPacket Networks has appointed network and IT monitoring and consulting company Newgen Systems as its integration partner in Australia and New Zealand.
Wall Street Network Solutions Gets Another IXnet Vet
Low-latency network provider Wall Street Network Solutions has hired John Faccibene as senior vice president of enterprise solutions to support the vendor's global expansion, officials say.
Pico Buys SpryWare for Data Tools; Preps Integration, International Expansion
New York-based agency broker and trading infrastructure provider Pico Quantitative Trading has acquired Chicago-based ticker plant, feed handler and historical data store vendor SpryWare, in a move to strengthen its data technology assets and expand its…
Emerging Markets News, Data Vendors BNE, EMD to Merge
BNE, a provider of English-language business, economics and political news and analysis covering central, eastern and southeast Europe and former Soviet Union countries, is to merge with central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa news and…
Max Bowie: Got an ITCH? Let It Spread
Nasdaq OMX’s proprietary ITCH data protocol has become the de facto standard used for data dissemination by equity markets, with more marketplaces adopting the protocol or ITCH-like alternatives. But, asks Max, will widespread adoption create…
MarketPrizm Taps BT Vet Man for Asia Sales
Veteran data and financial network executive Richard Man joined Colt-owned trading and data infrastructure provider MarketPrizm in March as head of sales for the Asia-Pacific region.
Rimes Swipes Swinhoe for Canada Sales
Benchmark managed data provider Rimes Technologies has opened a Toronto office and has hired Paul Swinhoe as a sales manager in Canada to support the vendor's efforts in the country.
Kx Launches Developer Site, Offers Free Software Access
Tick database and time-series analytics provider Kx Systems has unveiled a developer community website to support developers using the vendor's Kdb+ database.
UPDATE: Canadian Data Vets Found CFSI Advisory, Development Firm; Win Activ Canadian Distribution Deal
Toronto-based startup Collaborative Financial Services Inc, a provider of services that include business development consulting for companies seeking to enter the Canadian market, and an ecosystem of integrated partner products and development…
Estimize Unveils Crowd-Sourced M&A Prediction Platform, Raises $1.2M Expansion Funding
New York-based startup crowd-sourced estimates provider Estimize will roll out a new platform today, Wednesday, March 26, dubbed Mergerize, which aggregates crowd-sourced predictions of potential mergers and acquisition activity so traders, M&A bankers…
Solace Signs Clarke… Again
Crispin Clarke has rejoined hardware messaging platform provider Solace Systems in Toronto as senior vice president of its global accounts team, responsible for ensuring the vendor's internal resources—from sales and support to professional services,…
FIX Preps ITCH Data Protocol Integration
Standards association FIX Trading Community is working to incorporate elements of Nasdaq OMX’s ITCH data protocol into the FIX Protocol, to create an industry data standard that combines the efficiency of binary ITCH messages with the flexibility and…
Stoxx Names Former Banker Andreetto Sales Head
European index provider Stoxx has hired Matteo Andreetto as global head of sales, based in London, with responsibility for the strategic positioning of the vendor's indexes, and for leading sales activities with sell-side and buy-side clients.
Redline Bows Osaka Data Handler
Low-latency market data technology and trading gateway provider Redline Trading Solutions has released support for low-latency market data from the Osaka Securities Exchange's J-Gate trading system in Redline's InRush 3 ticker plant.
Consultancy D-fine Deploys SuperDerivatives DGX Terminals
German quantitative and technical consulting firm D-fine is rolling out data, pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives' DGX data and news terminal to its consultants, freeing them from inflexible fee schedules offered by other…