Articles by Max Bowie
TP Icap Eyes Cloud, More Tech Partners to Reach New Data Clients
The broker is looking to expand its data delivery options to reach potential clients who don't have access to traditional channels.
TRG Screen Buys Partner MDI to Boost Managed Data Services
The deal will allow MDI to provide other TRG offerings as fully managed services, and to benefit from being part of a larger company.
Screen Founders Leave TRG, Set up Data Recruitment Firm
Brooimans and Fruitema will focus on helping financial firms in Europe to find experienced data professionals.
TRG Screen Integrates PEAR Policy Database After Axon Acquisition
The integration of PEAR, acquired last year, is a further step towards integrating the vendor's key data inventory management platforms, FITS and InfoMatch.
Interactive Brokers Creates Vendor Arm to Consolidate Data Ops
The creation of GFIS is the culmination of a three-year plan to consolidate and improve how the broker managed hundreds of data sources.
ARM Insight Preps Revenue Data Predictor for the Buy Side
The vendor believes its planned dashboard of synthetic consumer spend data will help a wider audience on the buy side exploit predictive company revenue data.
Broker SCB Nears Deal With XData, EOSE to Grow Data Sales, Governance
The move will build on SCB's internal efforts over the past year to establish and grow a formal data business.
VendEx Readies VReg Tool to Shed Light on Vendor Dependencies
VReg will highlight the third-party services that financial institutions rely on most to meet each aspect of regulations.
SEC Preps Shakeup of US Consolidated Tapes
The SEC wants a single consolidated data plan to improve data latency and availability over the current consolidated tapes.
Biofuels Broker SCB Eyes More Data Partnerships in 2020
After setting up a dedicated market data function last year, the broker plans to enlist more vendors to increase distribution of its data,
People Moves: Douglas Taylor, TD, Xavier Rolet, Guggenheim
A look at some the key "people moves" from last week, including Douglas Taylor (pictured, right), who is leaving Burton-Taylor.
TD Securities Eyes Data on Internal ‘Hydra’ Risk Middleware in 2020
The firm sees benefits of making data available on the platform, which already hosts risk and P&L functions, as well as settlement and reporting applications.
This Week: Digital Asset, BNY Mellon-SimCorp, AccessFintech & More
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news
Banks Begin Testing MDSL-FactSet Auto-Procurement
The service automates the process of permissioning and ordering market data services—initially from FactSet, though MDSL is extending it to cover other vendors' services.
EDM Council Forms Data Women’s Group
The new interest group will help provide collaboration, networking, and mentoring opportunities for women seeking to advance their careers in the data industry.
Exegy Gets Expanded CAT Role Under Finra
The vendor will be providing more data capture and processing services for the CAT than when originally selected as part of Thesys Technologies' failed CAT offering.
Bringing an ‘Edge’ to the South Side
Max reports on how one company’s mission to exploit the trend of Edge Computing is not only improving latency and connectivity, but also has the potential to improve low-income neighborhoods and change lives.
BST Awards 2019: Best Buy-Side Data Analytics Tool—FactSet
To gain advantage from the growing data deluge, analytics—integrated with a firm's data workflow—are becoming ever-more crucial to buy-side investors.
Bloomberg LP’s Fate Lies in Hands of Democratic Voters
With Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg confirming a run for president, Max ponders the possible outcomes if the data giant goes up for sale.