Articles by Max Bowie
Infinigon Adds Echo to Eikon
The vendor's social media analytics platform will be available as a third-party application on Thomson Reuters' Eikon desktop.
SIX Nets Shapiro for Sales
With more than 20 years in market data sales, Shapiro has worked at FactSet, Morningstar, Tenfore, Thomson Financial and ILX.
Telx Opens Second San Francisco Datacenter
The datacenter has been designated an "essential" building for its earthquake-resistant construction.
CBOE Launches New Livevol Data Portal
The new site will allow users to subscribe to data on a more granular level, giving access to just the specific datasets they need.
Dow Jones Bows Factiva App, Licensed Content
In addition to a new mobile app for Factiva on iPhone devices, Dow Jones is licensing curated news to third-party websites.
StatPro Adds Benchmark Analysis to Revolution
The latest version of StatPro's analytics platform includes functionality for creating composite benchmarks, and other performance-related tools.
Opening Cross: Have the Heavyweights Handle the Heavy Lifting
In every walk of life, experts are urging people to oursource specialist tasks: why not in data?
National Bank of Canada Taps TickSmith
The bank is using TickSmith's TickVault program to cope with volumes of quote and trade data that were exceeding the limits of traditional technologies.
RSRCHXchange Adds Dashboard of Research Use, Spend
The new dashboard will help firms understand their research spend and consumption, as well as comply with MiFID 2 requirements.
MayStreet Bows DaaS Packet Capture, Data Processing
The cloud-based service allows clients to convert data from high-precision formats to those used for research and compliance.
SR Labs Snares Wombat Vet for Pre-Sales
Fellows previously spent nine years working with the Wombat product line that is now owned by SR Labs.
Opening Cross: Don’t Forget the Fundamentals
As we chase outright speed, we mustn't lose sight of the underlying data about a company that makes that speed so important.
ValuEngine Bows Chinese-Language Reports
The analysis provider has begun providing its stock reports and newsletters in Chinese, in part via an agreement with online broker SogoTrade.
SIX Nets Crabb to Claw in New P&RD Sales
A former associate publisher of Incisive Media's Credit magazine, Crabb has spent a decade in sales of fixed income pricing, ratings and analysis solutions.
Interactive Data Adds European, Asian Bonds to Liquidity Indicators
The indicators will help users estimate the volume of liquidity to support a trade, and to estimate how long they should hold a position.
IPC Suffers eSpeed Connectivity Outage
Nasdaq says IPC's service at eSpeed's primary datacenter was impacted by a power issue.
BME, BSO Ally on Lower Latency
The agreement will reduce latency for BSO clients accessing BME's markets via the exchange's Visual Trader workstation.
Platts Pitches NGL Curves for Risk, Procurement Management
When paired with Platts Bentek's forecasts, the new forward curves will give a complete short- and long-term view of NGL price expectations.
Opening Cross: Test the Water Before Diving In (And Other Old Sayings with New Applications)
With so many complex new datasets promsing alpha, some vendors are doing the heavy analytics lifting for clients, while others are allowing users to first test the data in new ways.
Solace Sells Majority Stake to PE Firm Bridge Growth
The firm aims to help Solace capitalize on opportunities arising from data processing-led market trends.
Morningstar Names Senior Research Execs
Reorganizations of the vendor's manager research teams by region and asset class have resulted in a series of new roles and appointments.
Fitch Debuts ‘Connect' Integrated Credit Ratings, Research, Fundamentals Platform
The new platform provides ratings, research, economic data and analytics, plus exclusive financial fundamental data.
Data-as-a-Service Analytics Startup Kyper Taps WSH for Events Data
The platform will allow users to correlate WSH's predictive earnings events data against other sources of prices and news.
UPDATE: Solarflare Sues over Patent Infringement, Exablaze Denies Accusations
Solarflare holds 91 US patents covering technology and processes for transmitting, receiving and processing data.