Emerging Technologies
Telvent Buys DTN for Agri Data Drive
Spanish energy technology service provider Telvent last week bought Omaha, Nebraska-based DTN-which provides data on the agricultural, refined fuels and weather markets-for $445 million in cash, to expand into the US agricultural and commodities data…
Solace Taps Former Tibco Staffers for New Offices
Hardware-based networking provider Solace Systems recently completed a hiring spree of former Tibco staff to fill a round of new offices in Atlanta, Palo Alto and Tokyo that the vendor announced last week.
SIX Telekurs Launches CEO Hunt
SIX Telekurs, the market data vendor subsidiary of newly rebranded SIX (Swiss Infrastructure and Exchange) Group, is seeking a new chief executive, after announcing last week that current CEO Marc Carletti plans to leave the vendor after just over 18…
RTI Builds NY Presence with New Hires, Moves
Sunnyvale, Calif-based low-latency messaging middleware provider RTI is opening a New York office to support existing financial clients and new business sales in the city, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Aleri Shuffles Execs for Regional Focus
Complex event processing (CEP) technology vendor Aleri has reshuffled its senior management team, in a move designed to provide a more regionally focused operational structure, Inside Market Data has learned.
JWG-IT: New Venues Prompt European Data War
The importance of managing market data has never been greater for European trading firms, according to a research note entitled, "Winning the RegTech Data War," recently published by industry think-tank JWG-IT.
Kingsbury, Dore, Reichgut
Position Keeping
Practice Makes Perfect
Ten years after the creation of the Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG) data specialist Karla McKenna talks to Carla Mangado about the group's ongoing efforts to facilitate market practice industry-wide and the key achievements of the corporate…
Fortunato to Build Data Biz at BondDesk
Former Tradeweb director of market data Ben Fortunato, who recently joined bond trading platform BondDesk as managing director and chief operating officer of the broker's TIPS and TechHackers calculation and trading software subsidiaries, says his remit…
StreamBase Takes Plunge Into Dark Pools
Complex event processing technology vendor StreamBase is targeting a new client base in the form of dark pool trading venues, to help their founders address complex datafeed integration and trading strategy development needs, officials say.
Hillier-Brook Forms BHW Systems
Market data industry veteran Ian Hillier-Brook has formed a new company, dubbed BHW Systems, which will re-sell the Smart TS XL software analytics toolkit from Dallas, TX-based vendor IN-COM Data Systems to potential clients in Europe.