Articles by Max Bowie
SeekingAlpha Lists OTC Markets Data, Links
Financial news, analysis and transcript website Seeking Alpha has added marketplace designations for the OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink markets operated by OTC Markets Group to company information on its website, to denote the listing market of each security…
2013 Review: Data Licenses Cause Friction Between Exchanges, Users
As exchange revenues from traditional activities such as trading continue to stagnate, more trading venues continued to increase market data fees and to change licensing policies to charge fees for datasets they previously made available at lower rates…
Numerix Catches Carley for EMEA Sales
Derivatives valuation and analytics provider Numerix has hired Tim Carley as EMEA managing director to oversee the vendor's direct sales operations in the region, covering its London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Stockholm and Dubai sales and development…
Chaikin Bows Desktop App, ETF Data
Chaikin Analytics has adapted its Chaikin Analytics for iPad app to create a desktop workstation, incorporating its Chaikin Power Gauge alpha model of 20 fundamental and technical factors that provides a bullish or bearish rating, and six pairs of buy…
InfoReach Adds eSpeed Fixed Income Data
Chicago-based trading technology provider InfoReach has integrated market data from Nasdaq OMX's eSpeed fixed income market into its trading application to support direct execution on eSpeed.
IEX Taps Redline Ticker NBBO Feed for Price Matching
Mutual fund-owned alternative trading system IEX Group has confirmed it is using Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency data technology provider Redline Trading Solutions' InRush 3 hardware-accelerated ticker plant to capture US equity market data to support…
Exegy Grows FX Coverage with Bloomberg, Currenex, Gain Feed Handlers
St. Louis, MO-based low-latency feed handler and data platform appliance vendor Exegy has rolled out new feed handlers for foreign exchange trading platforms Bloomberg Tradebook, Currenex ITCH and Gain GTX within its Exegy Ticker Plant to expand its…
Bureau van Dijk Adds to Orbis Company Database
Bureau van Dijk, a Dutch provider of company information, has rolled out an updated version of its Orbis company database, containing broader and new datasets.
Opening Cross: Inside Market Data’s 12 Days of Christmas
Inside Market Data will take a break from printing over Christmas and the New Year, with our next print issue on Monday, Jan. 13. In the meantime, we’ll continue to update the IMD website with news over the holidays. So until we print again, season’s…
IMD's 10 Days of Christmas: The Top 10 Trends of 2013
In the spirit of the season, Inside Market Data will be publishing its Top 10 Trends of 2013 over the coming 10 days in the run-up to Christmas.
Empirasign Adds to Dealer Run Quotes
Empirasign Strategies, a New York-based provider of dealer offerings and "trade color" for mortgage and asset-backed securities, is adding new datasets covering bids and two-way markets to its database of fixed-income pricing, in response to client…
Thomson Reuters Adds ANZ Bond Pricing
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has begun contributing prices for more than 2,700 credit bonds denominated in Australian, New Zealand and US dollars as well as pounds sterling and euros on Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading bond platform.
Energy Data Hub Taps Sapient
Houston, Texas-based energy data processing utility Energy Data Hub has enlisted Sapient Global Markets to contribute to the development of its EDH Platform central repository for global energy trade data, to help EDH provide improved data transparency…
Integral Readies FX Benchmark Rate Fixings
Foreign exchange trading software vendor Integral Development Corp is preparing to launch a set of benchmark rates for major currency pairs, updated at one-second intervals and made available at the end of every trading day, to provide more reliable data…
SpryWare Adds Data to Cloud Ticker Plant
Chicago-based low-latency feed handler and ticker plant provider SpryWare has expanded its Proximity Cloud hosted ticker plant to include full order book data, including 45 days of historical full order book data and a calculated top-of-book price, with…
B-next Taps Data Vet Rhoden
Market surveillance and compliance software provider B-next has hired Mike Rhoden as product consultant, based in London, to strengthen the vendor's UK operations and expand its international client base.
Thomson Reuters, SGX Ally on Bond Indexes
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a suite of Singapore dollar bond indexes, developed with the Singapore Exchange, to help fund managers, asset owners and custodians benchmark investment performance and to provide increased transparency into local bond…
Ex-DPC President Ruvo Bonds with BondWave
Michael Ruvo, former president of municipal bond data vendor DPC Data, has joined BondWave-a Wheaton, Illinois-based provider of trade support, monitoring, alerting and reporting software for fixed income investors and financial advisors-as president,…
Waters Panel: Big Data Analytics to Get Bigger, Smaller
With Big Data analysis and business intelligence tools becoming more functional and sophisticated, firms can now extract more valuable data from a broader range of data sources in a fraction of the time that it would have taken in the past. As a result,…
Xeno, Aqumin Ally for Data Quality Visuals
UK-headquartered data management and analytics technology provider Xenomorph has integrated Houston, Texas-based data visualization provider Aqumin’s “landscape”-style heatmap displays into its TimeScape database and analytics platform, to provide visual…
Cowen Eyes Broader Rollout for Predictive Analytics
New York-based investment bank Cowen Group is preparing to roll out the next phase of its short-term alpha model as a standalone service to a broader base of traders beyond its existing brokerage clients, having already rolled out the model-a score that…
SIX FinInfo Joins SFTI Net, Adds Android Telekurs iD Mobile
SIX Financial Information has relocated one of its US datacenters to NYSE Euronext's proximity hosting location in Weehawken, NJ and has become a content service provider on NYSE's SFTI (Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure) network, outsourcing…
Equinix Opens Osaka Datacenter
Datacenter and hosting provider Equinix has opened its first datacenter in Osaka, Japan, enabling trading firms to host data and trading technologies in proximity to the country's second-largest financial center.