Articles by Max Bowie
NYSE Tech, First Derivatives Ally for As-a-Service Offerings
NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of NYSE Euronext, is working with Northern Ireland-based data management software vendor First Derivatives to develop a suite of historical data-as-a-service solutions, dubbed Tick as a Service, that will…
Estimize Launches ‘Select Consensus' Weighted Estimates
New York-based crowd-sourced estimates data provider Estimize has launched a weighted consensus estimates service, dubbed Select Consensus, which aims to refine the vendor's current consensus estimates by identifying factors that make a contributor's…
Chi-X Canada Bows "Retail Professional" Intermediate Data Fee Tier
Alternative trading system Chi-X Canada has introduced a new tier of market data fees for professionals such as investment advisors serving retail investors, developed with the assistance of market data and technology product management and marketing…
Deutsche Börse Sets up Vienna Data, Trading Access in Interxion Datacenter
German exchange group Deutsche Börse has expanded its European connectivity network by adding an access point at European datacenter and hosting provider Interxion's datacenter campus in Vienna.
NYSE Tech Gets China Data Nod
The Chinese State Council Information Office has granted NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of exchange group NYSE Euronext, approval to distribute market datato market participants in mainland China.
OPRA Data Issue Halts Options Exchanges
Unidentified system issues at the Options Price Reporting Authority, which creates the OPRA consolidated feed of US options quote and trade data, forced options exchanges to halt trading this afternoon.
Pico, SpryWare Ally on Latency Offerings
Chicago-based ticker plant and feed handler provider SpryWare has struck a deal with New York-based agency broker and infrastructure provider Pico Trading to offer Pico’s clients access to the vendor’s feed handlers, and in return gain access to Pico’s…
OliveTree Taps Markit for SecLending Data
London-based analytics provider OliveTree Financial Group has integrated securities lending data from data provider Markit into its OTAS (OliveTree Trading Analysis System) analytics platform, which captures data on different asset classes and factors to…
Selerity Eyes Hires as Event Trading Renaissance Drives Demand
Selerity, a New York-based provider of low-latency unstructured events data, is preparing to expand its sales and analyst team in response to growing demand for its Selerity Alerts product.
First Derivatives Picks Pruett for US Growth
Newry, Northern Ireland-based data management technology vendor First Derivatives has appointed former SIX Financial Information executive Jonathan Pruett head of strategic business development for the Americas, responsible for expanding the vendor's…
Xignite Grows Market Data Cloud Cover
San Mateo-based on-demand data provider Xignite has added two new services-CloudFiles and CloudStreaming─to its Market Data Cloud service, in addition to its existing CloudAPIs for applications and developers to access the vendor's data.
SocGen Bond Prices on Thomson Reuters Trading Platform, Data Services
Société Générale has begun contributing cash bond prices to Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading electronic platform, expanding the bank's price distribution to a broader base of trading desks at private banks and wealth managers, while increasing the…
Derivative Path Taps Fincad for OTC Derivative Analytics, Valuations
Derivative Path, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based startup provider of automated trading technologies for the over-the-counter derivatives markets, has incorporated Vancouver, Canada-based OTC derivatives pricing and risk management vendor Fincad's analytics…
Mariner Trawls MSCI ESG Data for Alpha
New York-based alternative asset manager Mariner Investment Group is to use ESG (environmental, social and governance) ratings and portfolio analysis tools from MSCI ESG Research, to support the incorporation of ESG factors into Mariner's investment…
ML Bond Index Adds Fitch Ratings
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added credit ratings content from Fitch Ratings to its ML Bond Market index, as an additional factor in the assessment of investment-grade and speculative-grade bonds.
BME Preps Real-Time Volatility Indexes
Spanish exchange group Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles will begin calculating a new family of eight target volatility indexes on Sept. 24, dubbed the IBEX Volatilidad Objetivo or IBEX 35 Target Volatility, expanding the exchange's existing IBEX 35 index…
ITRS Grows Partner Data Interfaces
UK-based application monitoring software vendor ITRS has expanded its partner program to include Caplin Systems, Corvil, Misys, Niksun and VMware, to allow ITRS' Geneos platform to extract data to extract data from the vendors' applications, including…
CQG Adds FastMarkets Metals Data
Denver, Colo.-based data, trading and analytics provider CQG has added London-based FastMarkets' Premium Metals News to the metals market data and trading capabilities already available in CQG's platform.
Tradition Taps Corvil for Monitoring
Interdealer broker Tradition has rolled out Dublin-based latency and performance monitoring technology provider Corvil's CorvilNet monitoring platform to provide real-time visibility into data and execution latency and operational performance statistics…
Pricing Vet Kelsey Moves to Mortgage CRM Vendor
Former Reuters exec Michele Kelsey has joined Vantage Integrated Production, a provider of CRM, workflow and data management tools for mortgage lenders, as regional vice president of sales for the Midwest US, based in New York.
TriOptima Turns on DTCC Data Link
TriOptima─a provider of post-trade infrastructure, processing and risk management solutions for over-the-counter derivatives, owned by interdealer broker Icap─has gone live with a link to capture market data on OTC derivatives trades reported to the…
Behavioral Indicator Vendor Titan TA Closes
Titan Trading Analytics, the Edmonton, Canada and Atlanta, GA-based provider of trading signals based on behavioral analytics, has shut down as a result of “financial difficulties” and an inability to meet its financial obligations, Inside Market Data…