Emerging Technologies
Bloomberg Names Risk and Compliance Exec
Bloomberg is making good on its promise to beef up compliance and data security measures-following the revelation earlier this year that its journalists were able to access some client terminal usage data-by hiring Paul Wood as the vendor's first chief…
Kaplan Swaps Telx for Equinix
Shawn Kaplan recently joined datacenter and hosting provider Equinix as sales director for the vendor's major accounts team covering financial services, a newly-created role leading a sales team focused on building strategic relationships with Equinix's…
2013 Review: For Exchanges in 2013, Life’s a Glitch
US stock and options exchanges suffered such significant outages in 2013 that regulators step ped in to bring the markets to task over the failures, many of which were linked to problems with the exchanges’ ability to disseminate market data.
Do People Still Matter?
The holiday season has the effect of bringing people together, often in small spaces, because it’s freezing and we don’t want to go outside. But there’s something to be said for looking up from our devices—smartphones, algo trading engines—once in awhile…
Open Platform: Cash in on Your Cache─Using CPU Cache, Hybrid Models and Vectors to Ditch Database Delays
As data volumes continue to rise, processing this data efficiently requires database developers to employ new methods of storing and processing data, says Steve Graves, chief executive of in-memory database provider McObject
2013 Review: Data Licenses Cause Friction Between Exchanges, Users
As exchange revenues from traditional activities such as trading continue to stagnate, more trading venues continued to increase market data fees and to change licensing policies to charge fees for datasets they previously made available at lower rates…
Numerix Names Carley as EMEA MD
Analytics provider Numerix has announced the appointment of Tim Carley, who will become the firm's managing director of the EMEA sales territory.
Numerix Catches Carley for EMEA Sales
Derivatives valuation and analytics provider Numerix has hired Tim Carley as EMEA managing director to oversee the vendor's direct sales operations in the region, covering its London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Stockholm and Dubai sales and development…
Michael Villain Joins NanoSpeed as Head of Business Development
Low-latency FPGA provider NanoSpeed has appointed Michael Villain as global head of business development.
Aquis Exchange Appoints Graham Dick to Lead Sales
Pan-European equities trading venue Aquis Exchange has hired Graham Dick, co-founder of consolidated tape think-tank The COBA Project, to head its sales team.
2013 Review: 2013: A Year of Disruption for Data Vendors
While market share in the data industry was dominated by the long-established heavyweights, one of the most potentially disruptive developments of the year came from a fast-growing middleweight.
2013 Review: OTC Derivatives Electronification Prompts Flurry of Data Capture, Reporting Activity
As result of a subdued global equities market, 2013 saw an uptick in over-the-counter derivatives trading. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total national value of the OTC derivatives markets reached almost $700 billion in June…
Generalists, Business Analysts to Get More Tech Jobs in 2014
Two themes emerged when C-level technologists on a panel at the Waters USA conference revealed what skills they will be looking for in jobseekers in 2014. The first was a shift from preferring specialist programmers and developers to those with a broader…
Opening Cross: Inside Market Data’s 12 Days of Christmas
Inside Market Data will take a break from printing over Christmas and the New Year, with our next print issue on Monday, Jan. 13. In the meantime, we’ll continue to update the IMD website with news over the holidays. So until we print again, season’s…
IMD's 10 Days of Christmas: The Top 10 Trends of 2013
In the spirit of the season, Inside Market Data will be publishing its Top 10 Trends of 2013 over the coming 10 days in the run-up to Christmas.
2013 Review: Budgets Drive, Hamper End-User Innovation
End-user firms continued to struggle with budget concerns in 2013, while striving to embrace innovative ways to view and use data.
Oslo Børs Nibor U-Turn Irks End-Users
Norwegian exchange group Oslo Børs last week began calculating the Norwegian Interbank Offered Rate (Nibor) benchmark rate, after being appointed the calculation agent by Norwegian financial industry association Finance Norway. However, end-users are…
ESMA Seeks Data Expert Advisors
European regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is recruiting market data reporting experts to advise on potential complications stemming from the overlap of recent EU financial regulation.
Some Final Thoughts on Waters USA 2013
Anthony takes a look back at Monday's event to see what's ahead for the industry in 2014.
Talking State Street's Global Exchange with Ivan Matviak
Ivan Matviak, senior vice president at State Street, talks with Waters' Tim Bourgaize Murray at the annual Waters USA conference in New York City.
UBS CTO Correy Voo on Data Sovereignty
Waters' Tim Bourgaize Murray catches up with Correy Voo, CTO for platform services and applied innovation at UBS, at the annual Waters USA conference in New York City.
Energy Data Hub Taps Sapient
Houston, Texas-based energy data processing utility Energy Data Hub has enlisted Sapient Global Markets to contribute to the development of its EDH Platform central repository for global energy trade data, to help EDH provide improved data transparency…
Markham to Head Updata's Houston Office
UK-based technical analysis software vendor Updata has named William Markham senior vice president of business development at of the vendor's new office in Houston, Texas, which is due to open in early 2014 to meet the needs of a growing customer base in…
B-next Taps Data Vet Rhoden
Market surveillance and compliance software provider B-next has hired Mike Rhoden as product consultant, based in London, to strengthen the vendor's UK operations and expand its international client base.