Articles by Max Bowie
CEO Fenwick Departs Dow Jones
News Corporation yesterday announced the departure of Dow Jones chief executive Lex Fenwick after less than two years in the role, saying that the vendor would review the institutional strategy that Fenwick implemented, including the DJX news and data…
MDSL Preps Index, Trading Cost Management Tools
UK-based market data inventory management and usage monitoring technology provider MDSL is rolling out two new services aimed at helping financial firms manage their index data and FIX trading connectivity spend similar to how they manage market data…
MDSL Preps Trading Cost Management Tools
UK-based MDSL is rolling out a new service aimed at helping financial firms manage their Fix trading connectivity spend, similar to how they manage market data spend using the vendor's market data management (MDM) platform.
Market Prophit Adds ‘Maven' Filter to Crowd Sentiment, Ranks Individuals' Performance
New York-based social media sentiment analysis provider Market Prophit has created a filtered version of its sentiment feed, which creates sentiment scores for companies based on mentions in social media, and has added a feature that ranks the most…
Markit Hub Adds Roubini Economic Data
Markit has added economic research and analysis from Roubini Global Economics (RGE) to its Markit Hub research platform, which aggregates research, analysis and news from banks, data vendors and news providers.
Data Boiler Names Former JP Morgan Exec COO
Edward Lai, former vice president of the chief investment office at JP Morgan in Asia, has joined Big Data analytics startup Data Boiler Technologies as managing director and chief operating officer, responsible for product development, compliance and…
Financial Machineries Buys Data Contributions Ahead of Aggregated Repository Data Launch
Milan-based startup risk and quantitative analytics provider Financial Machineries is preparing to launch a feed of cleansed, aggregated data from trade data repositories, dubbed GTR Analytics, and has acquired London-based contributed data consultancy…
Dow Jones Sues RANsquawk for $5 Million
Dow Jones has filed a lawsuit against London-based news aggregator and audio "squawk" provider RANsquawk, accusing the vendor of systematically stealing Dow Jones' news headlines and stories without a license to distribute its news, and seeking at least …
Industry Optimistic for Innovation in 2014
At the start of the New Year, it’s customary to say goodbye to the past year and look ahead to the opportunities and challenges of the next. In keeping with this theme, Inside Market Data asks vendors what they expect to drive or hinder innovation in the…
Hardware Failure Hits Nasdaq Options Data, Trading
Nasdaq halted trading in options symbols starting with the letters A through M on its Nasdaq Options Market on the morning of Friday, Jan. 10, after the exchange experienced an issue with processing data from the Options Price Reporting Authority.
Spread Connects NYSE Mahwah Datacenter to Chicago
Ridgeland, MS-based low-latency fiber network operator Spread Networks has set up a point of presence for its wavelength data network between New York and Chicago at NYSE Euronext's datacenter at Mahwah, NJ, creating roundtrip latency of around 14…
Post-Merger, Inet BFA Lays Out Integration, Execs
Inet BFA, the South African data provider formed by last year's acquisition of I-Net Bridge by McGregor BFA from Times Media Group, has finalized its combined management team and is laying out plans to integrate the two vendors' datasets and delivery…
Max Bowie: Cost, Regs, Volumes, Analytics to Drive Data Innovation in 2014
With economic woes hampering innovation in recent years, Max says the winds of change blowing from different directions may create a perfect storm of pressures that force the industry to consider new options in 2014.
YCharts Revamps Screener, Charting; Preps New Content, Research
Fundamental data analysis provider YCharts has enhanced its stock screener tool to allow users of its YCharts Pro Platinum professional-grade analysis platform to create custom combinations of screening criteria based on the 4,000 financial factors…
Markit's McPherson Returns to NewOak
Neil McPherson, former managing director and global head of structured finance at Markit, has rejoined New York-based risk advisory and asset management firm NewOak--where he previously served as a managing director between October 2008 and April 2009-…
OptionsCity CTO: Harnessing Big Data for Value-Add Analytics is Key in 2014
Victor Glava, chief technology officer of options trading platform provider OptionsCity, discusses the commoditization of traditional datasets and delivery mechanisms, and describes where firms will need to add value in 2014.
IDC's Doe: Internalization, Collaboration, Electronification to Drive Innovation in 2014
With new regulations and more liquidity pools requiring increased data processing and storage, Emmanuel Doe, president of Interactive Data's Trading Solutions group, outlines how the industry can turn challenges into opportunities to leverage new…
Empirasign: In 2014, Turn Data ‘Cost Centers' into ‘Opportunity Centers'
With budgets still under pressure, Empirasign Strategies founder and president Adam Murphy explains how innovation in 2014 will require the data industry to apply the same changes in attitude that brought about the BYOD movement to "bring your own market…
1010 Says 10-4 to Fannie Loan Data
Big Data analytics and database provider 1010Data has aggregated Fannie Mae loan-level credit performance data for fixed-rate single family mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae over the past 13 years into two tables as an ongoing time-series dataset that…
EidoSearch Predicts Predictive Shift in 2014
With Big Data and predictive analysis becoming more widely adopted and better understood, David Allen, vice president of sales and marketing at predictive analytics provider EidoSearch, explains why 2014 will be the year that traders "figure out how to…
SFI Adds Killeen as FTE
Jocelyn Killeen has joined Simplified Financial Information-the startup usage monitoring and data capture and replay technology provider set up by industry veteran Emilio Mercado-full-time as lead business analyst, after working with the company on a…
Nasdaq Delays New Feeds Test
Nasdaq OMX has delayed the start of testing for enhanced versions of its US equity datafeeds covering its Nasdaq Stock Market, BX and PSX marketplaces until the end of January.