Emerging Technologies
Confluence Taps SunGard Vet Byrne for EU Sales
Pittsburgh-based fund data management software vendor Confluence has hired former SunGard executive Hugh Byrne as managing director of sales, responsible for driving Confluence's strategic sales and growth strategy in Europe.
Ladd Replaces Spanbroek to Lead Prop-Trading Body
The European Principal Traders Association (Epta), a subsidiary of the Futures Industry Association (FIA), announced today that Johannah Ladd has taken on the role of secretary general at the lobby group.
Thomson Reuters, Cambridge Associates Aggregate Private Fund Benchmarks
The financial information provider and global investment firm have collaborated on a jointly-developed online platform to provide benchmark pricing on a range of alternative funds.
Thomson Reuters Adds Cambridge Assocs Fund Performance Benchmarks
Thomson Reuters is to begin making private fund performance benchmark data from investment firm Cambridge Associates available via its Eikon data desktop to provide "a next-generation benchmarking system for the [financial] industry," officials say.
OTC Conversations Turn to Market Structure, Away from Tech
Debates about the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives landscape have been transitioning from an IT focus to a market structure focus. To most, it's been subtle. To a technology reporter, it's a big deal.
EDM Council Adds Kendall to FIBO Efforts
Elisa Kendall of Thematix Partners will work with EDM Council executive Dennis Wisnosky under a contractual arrangement
CBOE to Invest in Tradelegs
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) says it will stake the analytics and decision-support software provider to institutional investors.
Hill to Lead SimCorp in UK, Ireland, Middle East
Peter Hill has replaced Klaus Andersen as managing director for the UK, Ireland and the Middle East
Barchart Adds EDI Historical Equities Data to OnDemand Cloud
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart has begun making end-of-day and historical equity price data from reference data provider Exchange Data International available to clients of its Barchart OnDemand cloud data service.
Hessegim Adds SIX Bond, Reference Data
Israeli fixed income analytics software provider Hessegim Software has added global fixed income pricing and reference data from SIX Financial Information to its Prafis analytical tool.
Emerging Technologies: The Risks and the Rewards
In the final part of this five-part feature on emerging technologies in the capital markets, we look at the risks and the rewards associated with adopting and implementing such technologies, and how to go about striking that delicate balance between…
Morningstar Names Charlson to Head Alternatives Research
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar has appointed Josh Charlson director of alternative funds research, responsible for the vendor's alternative investment research analyst team and for editing the vendor's Alternative…
Van Diamandakis to Drive Corvil Marketing
Dublin-based latency management technology vendor Corvil has appointed Van Diamandakis as its new chief marketing officer, responsible for expanding the company's analytics and monitoring platforms beyond the financial services industry.
Market Stucture Consultancy KOR Group Launches
The advocacy and consulting firm, led by Christopher Nagy and David Lauer, will cover the intersection of market structure, policy, and financial technology, and will push an agenda of greater transparency in the industry.
Emerging Technologies and Avoiding Analysis Paralysis
In part four of this five-part series on emerging technologies in the capital markets, based on a recent virtual roundtable, we look at the challenges facing CIOs when it comes to evaluating emerging technologies, and typically how they go about making…
IMD/IRD Awards 2014 - Vote Now!
Voting for the 2014 Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards is now open at events.insidemarketdata.com/awards.
Electra Taps Rhodes as COO
A software solutions provider for asset managers, Electra Information Systems has appointed Scott Rhodes as chief operations officer, to be based in New York.
Assessing the Implementation Challenges Associated with Emerging Technologies
In parts one and two of this five-part feature, we looked at the the technologies that typically fall under the "emerging technologies" moniker, and the operational benefits of deploying such technologies. In this section, we look at the complexities and…
Thomson Reuters Unveils Benchmark Rates Subsidiary
Thomson Reuters will this week unveil a new business, Thomson Reuters Benchmark Services (TRBS), set up as a regulated entity that can provide benchmark rate and index calculation and administration services separately from its parent’s in-house rates…
IDC's Russell Takes ‘Evangelist' Role at Tradier
Tradier, a provider of cloud-based brokerage infrastructure platforms and applications, has hired Craig Russell as senior vice president of product and chief evangelist to lead the vendor's sales, marketing and client and partner engagement activities…
Open Platform: In Big Data, What Works for B2C Markets Won’t Bring the Same Benefits in B2B
With most demonstrable Big Data success stories in business-to-consumer markets, Kelvin To, founder and president of Data Boiler Technologies, asks whether Big Data has real opportunities for business-to-business financial firms and technology providers?
The Internet of Things and Wall Street
As the Internet of Things takes hold in the retail space, Anthony wonders if this concept will spread into the capital markets in the near future, or if this is still too bleeding edge for the banking industry, much less buy-side institutions.
Fixnetix Co-Founder Moore Becomes Non-Exec
Alasdair Moore, a co-founder of UK-based low-latency data and trading infrastructure provider Fixnetix is stepping down from his executive role as business development director at the vendor and will take up a new non-executive position on Fixnetix's…