Articles by Max Bowie
CQG Sets up Data, Trading Co-Lo at SGX
Denver, Colo-based data, trading and analytics provider CQG will establish a co-location presence at the Singapore Exchange's datacenter and connect directly to SGX's Derivatives Market Direct Feed, to provide clients in the region with low-latency…
Tech Panel: Act ‘Appropriate,' But Speed Still Needs Spend
With today's capital markets increasingly automated and reliant on high-performance technologies, budget constraints resulting from the economic crisis of recent years are forcing firms to be more selective about building proprietary systems in-house…
CJC Taps Beebeejaun as Sales Head
Market data consultancy and real-time systems support and management provider CJC has hired Feroze Beebeejaun as head of sales, responsible for generating new business for CJC's outsourced support operations and for its commercial management business…
Trillium Begins Post-Trade Analytics Push
Trillium Labs, a software development spin-off from New York-based proprietary trading firm Trillium Trading has filed a patent for a new post-trade compliance monitoring tool for US equities trading that compares traders' order data to full order book…
New Regulations Will Drive Data Costs Higher, Panel Warns
The growing raft of new regulations are increasing the market data burden on all market participants for risk analysis and for meeting reporting requirements, while also increasing the cost of connecting to and aggregating new datasets, said panelists at…
EFIS User Panel: Data Cost Control Becomes Cultural Shift
Continuing pressure on data budgets at end-user firms following the financial crisis is creating challenges for market data managers, but is also creating opportunities to bring new approaches to how firms source and consume data, said panelists at this…
EFIS Keynote: HSBC Chief Data Officer Baker Defines Value of Data
Unlike precious assets such as gold, the value of market data is governed not by its rarity, but by its significance and usefulness, which depends on its ability to inform decisions and solve problems-and which in turn depends on having a dedicated…
Thomson Reuters Expands TRPS Evaluations with CDO Pricing
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a new collateralized debt obligation pricing service, providing end-of-day valuations based on asset-level analysis by the vendor's evaluators for CDOs on asset-backed securities, commercial real estate, and trust preferred…
Industry Vet Scouse Founds Data Cost, Content, Compliance Consultancy
Trevor Scouse, a 35-year veteran of the financial services and market data industries, has set up a consultancy, TJS Data, to advise data consumers and distributors on cost and compliance issues surrounding market data acquisition and management.
Telx Expands NY Co-Lo Space
Datacenter provider Telx has added 69,000 square feet of co-location space within its NYC1 facility at 60 Hudson Street in New York via a partnership with DataGryd Data Centers-a wholesale datacenter provider with existing space in the building-to…
BNP Taps TraderMade for FX Technical Analysis, Commentary
BNP Paribas is to roll out technical analysis to its foreign exchange strategy team and to provide commentary services within its Global Markets and Cortex FX trading platforms from London-based technical currency charting provider TraderMade.
Startup Data Boiler Assembles Team, Begins Big Data Consultations
North Weymouth, Mass.-based Big Data analytics startup Data Boiler Technologies has established its initial executive team, and is now approaching capital markets firms to dictate which areas the vendor should prioritize when finalizing its product…
Warsaw Stock Exchange Bows New Indexes
The Warsaw Stock Exchange began publishing two new indexes today, Sept. 23─the WIG30 index, the value of which is based on trade prices, and the WIG30TR, a total return index based on trade prices and dividend income─each containing the 30 largest and…
Fixnetix Expands Data, Risk Connectivity
Managed market data, trading connectivity and risk technology vendor Fixnetix has added low-latency connectivity to three new marketplaces, becoming an extranet connectivity provider for pan-European equities multilateral trading facility Aquis Exchange,…
Thomson Reuters Adds Asian Markets to Elektron Real Time
Thomson Reuters has rolled out its Elektron Real Time consolidated feed to new market centers in Asia, including Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore, providing full-tick depth of market data from 400 global exchanges and over-the-counter venues, and…
Cost, Latency, Regulation: IMD's Editor on Hot Topics at IMD Events
Inside Market Data editor Max Bowie reflects on the themes from recent conferences, and predicts that the impact of regulation will be high on the agenda at next week's European Financial Information Summit and other upcoming IMD conferences.
Update: OPRA Data Issue Halts Options Exchanges
The Options Price Reporting Authority was forced to cancel a software upgrade for its feed of consolidated US options quote and trade data on Monday Sept. 16, after the upgrade caused issues with calculation of the national best bid and offer price,…
OTC Markets Grows Disclosures News Service
New York-based over-the-counter equities marketplace OTC Markets is rolling out new features as part of its OTC Disclosure & News Service to make it easier for investors to research privately-held companies whose equity is traded on the exchange's OTCQX,…
EPFR Brings on Badolato in HK
Fund flows data provider EPFR Global has hired Elizabeth Badolato as business development manager in Hong Kong to expand the vendor's presence in Asia, reflecting the growth of its client base in the region, which was previously supported from the vendor…
Ipreo to Market FactSet Data to Corporates
Company data and investor relations service provider Ipreo has struck a deal with FactSet Research Systems to distribute the FactSet workstation and the vendor's FactSet for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet add-in to corporate clients, as part of Ipreo's…
SIX FI's Kevil Goes West
SIX Financial Information has relocated sales executive Kimberly Kevil from the US East Coast to the San Francisco Bay Area to support large and important clients on the West Coast, and to lead sales in California and Mexico, and reporting to Barry…
UTP Participants Propose Adding Odd-Lot Trades to Tape
The Securities and Exchange Commission is inviting comments on proposals by the exchange participants in the UTP (Unlisted Trading Privilege) consolidated tape of quote and trade data in Nasdaq-listed stocks to include odd-lot trades on the UTP last sale…