Articles by Max Bowie
Bond ATS OpenBondX Preps Order Book, Real-Time Feed
OpenBondX, a startup alternative trading system for fixed income securities, is planning to make firm quote and trade data available via a real-time proprietary datafeed and via Bloomberg, once it rolls out a central limit order book in the second phase…
Covington Joins M&A Consultants BLC Advisors
Veteran exec Covington has 28 years of experience in the banking and financial technology industries.
Platts Speeds Commodities Data
New delivery mechanism will provide faster and easier access to Platts' commodities data.
Barchart Debuts AgriCharts OnDemand
API-based service will make it easier for developers to integrate Barchart's commodities data.
Max Bowie: Perfect Pitch: The Rise of Fintech’s Not-So-Secret Agents
Increasingly sophisticated data products need sales experts with a wide range of experience, which sometimes means going "out of house."
YCharts Elevates Eplett
New role will support vendor's expansion plans, officials say.
KVH to Connect JPX, SGX with Low-Latency Co-Lo Network
Announcement follows connectivity cooperation agreement between the exchanges.
ICE Benchmark Admin Preps Calculation Switch for ISDAFIX Rate
Officials say new methodology will "ensure market confidence" in the integrity of ISDAFIX benchmark.
S&P DJI Unveils Major Bond Index Expansion
Index provider aims to seize opportunities created by Libor scandal to restore confidence in fixed income markets.
Icap Preps Bond Pricing Service, Taps Interactive Data Evaluations
Changing bond market conditions require a new breed of pricing solutions, officials say.
Opening Cross: Market Data’s Facebook Status Would Be ‘It’s Complicated…’
As data becomes more sophisticated, data management becomes more complicated.
CBOE Hikes BBO, Depth Fees, Cuts COB Charges
Fee changes aim to support the cost of additional content, while attracting more trading.
YCharts Adds Fund Screener Tool
The screener will allow investment advisors to navigate and select frommore than 40,000 funds
Chi-X Canada Launches Web-Based Historical Data Downloads
The service will automate provision of historical data files for the ATS and its clients.
CoreOne Creates RegOne Analytics, Reporting Division with TAG, TTA Acquisitions
New York-based data management technology provider CoreOne Technologies has acquired transaction cost analysis tools provider Transaction Auditing Group for an undisclosed sum to create a new market structure analytics and reporting division, dubbed…
FactSet Names Bloomberg's Miller Sales Head
FactSet Research Systems has appointed former Bloomberg exec Scott Miller executive vice president and global director of sales, replacing Michael Frankenfield, who the vendor has named vice chairman, and who will hold a senior sales advisory role.
Codestreet Gets VC Buy-In to Accelerate Development, Boost Sales
New York-based price discovery and distribution and bond trading software vendor Codestreet has sold undisclosed minority stakes in the company to two venture capital firms, Rochester Advisors and Cerium Technology, to help accelerate growth of its…
Barchart Adds Eris Data
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart has begun providing market data from swap futures marketplace Eris Exchange via its Barchart Trader datafeed and trading platform, in response to client demand for access to the exchange's data, officials say.
Update: Redline Bows Managed Consolidated US Feed; Eyes Broader Datacenter Access, Vendor Partners
Consolidated option will broaden appeal to firms that are more cost-sensitive than latency-sensitive.
Rimes Nabs Interactive Data Vet Beith
Rimes Technologies, a provider of managed services for benchmark and economic data management, has appointed long-time Interactive Data exec Brendan Beith head of sales for the world excluding the Americas, focusing on sales in the EMEA and Asia-Pacific…
Carbon Market Data Fires Up Korean Emissions Database
Carbon Market Data, a London-based provider of databases and analytics covering carbon usage and production, has released a new South Korea ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) Database, which provides information on the 525 South Korean companies…
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Opening Cross: Do You Think of Data as a Grgich or a Gato Negro?
The other day, I was chatting with the owner of my local coffee shop about different types of coffees. He prefers African beans, lightly roasted, with bright, fruity flavors, whereas I prefer South American or Indonesian beans, roasted to within an inch…
FIF's Kimmel Named to SEC Market Structure Committee
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has set up a new Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee, staffed by senior executives from the trading and financial technology industries, including Manisha Kimmel, managing director of market data industry…