Articles by Max Bowie
Lucena Adds Intra-day Event Detection
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research has added support for intra-day signals to its QuantDesk Event Analyzer module, a machine learning event study technology for identifying buying and selling opportunities based on…
CME, Perseus Bow Precision Timestamping in Aurora Co-Lo
CME Group has installed highly accurate timing technology from network provider Perseus Telecom in its Aurora, Illinois co-location center, to allow clients to synchronize timing across trading systems in multiple datacenters.
Platts Forges Metals Partnership with Germany's MVS
Energy and commodities data provider Platts has struck a deal to take an undisclosed investment stake in German iron ore and steel data provider Minerals Value Service and become the exclusive distributor of MVS's web-based value-in-use tool, which…
State Street Adds Analytics Vets
State Street Global Exchange, the newly-formed data and analytics business of State Street, has hired Jeffrey Bohn as head of portfolio analytics and valuation, and Thomas Hughes as senior product strategist for analytics.
MDX, Ropnoy Ally for Spreadsheet Data Migrations
London-based market data connectivity platform and spreadsheet add-in provider MDX Technology has enlisted Ropnoy, a UK-based market data consultancy and software vendor, to help clients convert spreadsheets that consume data within their organizations…
Collins Heads SuperDerivatives SEF
Pricing software and data provider SuperDerivatives has appointed former head of strategic solutions David Collins as chief executive of the vendor's swap execution facility for currency and commodity derivatives, SDX Trading.
Data Vets Take Stake in Credit Deals Data Network
Former Thomson Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer and Credit Benchmark co-founders Donal Smith and Mark Faulkner (who were previously CEO and founder of securities lending data vendor Data Explorers) have taken an undisclosed ownership stake in…
HKEx Unveils Phase One of New ‘Orion' Data Platform
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has begun deploying the first phase of its new Orion Market Data platform, which will enable the exchange to distribute low-latency datafeeds with differing content to meet the needs of data vendors, market participants…
Barchart Brews Market Data Cloud
Chicago-based data and analytics vendor Barchart has launched Barchart OnDemand, a cloud-based data service developed using Amazon Web Services, to provide access to the vendor's collection of exchange price data, newswires, reference and fundamental…
Max Bowie: New Data Types Need a Big KISS
As market data becomes more voluminous and more complex, Max says providers of new content and the technologies for making sense of it are not only expected to provide clarity from the data, but also guidance on how to get the most out of it so potential…
Bloomberg Bows ‘First Word FX' News
Bloomberg has rolled out a new dedicated foreign exchange news service, dubbed First Word Foreign Exchange, that provides concise 24-hour economic, geopolitical and currency-specific news, including daily event previews and exclusive market summaries,…
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…