Articles by Max Bowie
Former PIR Execs Launch Aussie Property Fund Research Business
The Sydney-based company will provide ratings and research for listed and unlisted property funds in Australia.
August 2017: By Accident or Design
With large numbers of firms still unprepared for many aspects of MiFID II, Max questions whether the laggards—whatever their motives—are ready for the impact of non-compliance on their business.
PE Firm Bregal Sagemount Takes $100M Stake in Infrastructure Provider Options
The investment from the growth-focused PE firm follows a significant period of growth at Options.
Ultumus Builds US Base with Redstone
Redstone has spent 40 years in the financial markets, much of that time in data and trading technology-related roles.
HFN Expands Global Network Access After Epsilon’s Metcom Buy
The deal expands HFN's existing Metcom deal, leveraging Epsilon's global cloud capabilities to allow local network access in Europe and Asia.
AWS Taps Colt’s Hutchinson to Drive Financial Cloud Migrations
Hutchinson has previously worked at a variety of network, co-location and infrastructure providers, including Colt, Telx, Equinix, Level 3 and Savvis.
Thasos Completes ‘Streams’ Lineup of Mobile Location Data
The vendor sources and aggregates signals from mobile devices to draw conclusions about shopper movements and employee numbers.
Thomson Reuters Upgrades Eikon Research Management Capabilities Ahead of MiFID II
The enhancements will help Eikon users deal with the research requirements of the upcoming MiFID II regulation.
Ex-Soros’ Kerstein, Innovative Network Solutions Ally for Outsourced Data Admin Service
The service will provide a range of market data management and reporting functions on an as-a-service basis.
Money.Net Adds Another Bloomberg Exec for Investment Banking Push
Daskalakis' appointment reunites him with former Bloomberg exec and Money.Net CEO Morgan Downey, bolstering the vendor's add-in and API integration offering.
Estimize Adds Crowd-Sourced KPI Estimates Data
The new KPI estimates will complement the crowd-sourced earnings per share and revenue estimates already available on Estimize.
ING, Bloomberg Ally for Emerging FX Indexes
The indexes will help investors increase their exposure to emerging markets currencies, and track them against the US dollar.
TNS Unveils Frankfurt Managed Hosting and Connectivity
TNS' new managed service in Frankfurt will provide local clients with access to co-location resources and connectivity via its global network.
Barchart Taps Zacks Vet Sheehy for Institutional Sales
Sheehy will bring a decade of experience at Zacks, plus additional experience of stock analysis, to his new role at Barchart
July 2017: The Human Factor
In the world of traditional data management versus advanced analytics, some see data managers as sherpas and data science professionals as rocket scientists.
Bloomberg's Varun Pawar on Winning at the 2017 IMD/IRD Awards
The vendor won the Best Evaluated Prices Service Provider award for its BVAL service.
SmartStream's Joe Turso on Continued Successes for its Reference Data Utility
The vendor's RDU was responsible for the vendor's two wins in this year's awards.
SIX Finanical Information's Phil Lynch on Winning Three Categories at the 2017 IMD/IRD Awards
SIX won three awards, including Best Overall Data Provider.
Big XYT Gives Pan-EU View of Liquidity Data from ‘Cockpit’
The service enables clients to monitor market share and specific liquidity indicators across European trading venues.
Thomson Reuters Expands Tick History Service
Officials say the enhancements to Tick History will support the creation of algorithmic trading strategies and compliance with MiFID II.
StatPro Enlists Entwistle for Americas Sales
Entwistle has more than 20 years' experience in sales of technology and data solutions to financial markets clients.
Morningstar Takes Stake in Fund Rating Partner Sustainalytics
The ownership stake will support the continued joint development of sustainable investment products and related tools.
Shank Boards Apcela
Shank's operations background in other industries will see him take responsibility for overseeing day-to-day operations at Apcela.
Sentieo Debuts Research Management System to Manage Data, Notes in Desktop
The RMS will help analysts manage and share data relevant to their watchlists from across Sentieo's platform, and their own content sources, as well as proprietary notes.