Articles by Max Bowie
TMX's McCrea Joins Audit Specialists JCV
Former exchange exec will help grow JCV's audit and IPR protection business.
Genscape Buys Energy Fundamentals for European Power Analysis Expansion
Energy and commodities supply data provider Genscape has acquired Swiss power fundamental data and analysis provider Energy Fundamentals for an undisclosed sum, to extend its European offering by combining the vendor's analytics and scenario analysis…
AlphaSense Grabs Gunther for Sales
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of financial search, indexing and extraction technologies for structured and unstructured content, has hired John Gunther in New York as vice president of sales, responsible for driving growth of the vendor's…
Thomson Reuters Bags Sproehnle for Benchmarks
Tobias Sproehnle has joined Thomson Reuters in London as global head of benchmark services to head the vendor's global fixings business, responsible for administering more than 70 global benchmark indexes, including the LBMA Silver Price and the Libor…
McCoubrey Trades TIM for Predictive Retail Analytics
Dianne McCoubrey has left trade ideas platform vendor TIM Group, where she was regional sales director for the Americas, to become executive director of sales at Retalon, a provider of predictive analytics for retail inventory management, merchandising…
Cleartrade Bows Settlement Price Feed for CCPs
Commodity and freight futures market Cleartrade Exchange has begun offering a feed of daily settlement prices to its partner clearinghouses.
Crowdnetic Launches Crowdfunding Data Service, Inks Digital Look Distribution Deal
Crowdnetic, a provider of data on the crowdfunded securities market has unveiled CWMarketdata, a data download service covering data from more than 4,000 active and closed 506(c) offerings, sourced from a range of crowdfunding platforms via the vendor's…
Interactive Data 7Ticks Outlines BATS-Direct Edge Connectivity Migration Support
Interactive Data will provide connectivity to matching engines operated by BATS Global Markets and Direct Edge once the merged exchanges migrate their operations to Equinix's NY5 datacenter in Secaucus, NJ in January 2015.
Data Vets Sigillo, Johnson Establish MDI ‘Data Management-as-a-Service’ Practice
New offering targets boutique firms.
Opening Cross: Putting the ‘Custom’ in ‘Customer’
Talk to a market data manager at any firm, and chances are they view vendors and exchanges as money-grubbing monsters that exist purely to squeeze revenues from their hapless clients with little thought to customer service or satisfaction.
Data Vets Sigillo, Johnson Establish MDI ‘Data Management-as-a-Service’ Practice
Market data management veterans Rich Sigillo and Cindy Johnson have set up a new company focused on providing market data expense management and optimization as a managed service for firms that are not large enough to have a dedicated market data…
Eris Puts Futures Trade Data Online
Futures marketplace Eris Exchange recently began making real-time trade data available via a "Trade Recap" page on its website.
TR Expands Mobile Support for ‘Anywhere' Wealth App
Thomson Reuters has added support for new wireless platforms to its Thomson One Anywhere dynamic mobile site for its Wealth Management clients, including iPhone, Android and Blackberry Z10 smartphones.
OTAS Adds Customization, Text Generation to Analytics Platform
New OTAS Views feature will provide greater customization for clients.
Icap Bows End-of-Day Equity Derivatives Pricing Curves
Service will provide investment managers with valuation tools to conduct portfolio analysis and hedge risk.
Estimize Adds Analyst Confidence Score to Estimates Platform
Signal will give analysts greater confidence in estimates-based trading strategies.
Big Data Analytics Vendor VoltDB Hires Ex-HP, Vertica, Greenplum Exec
VoltDB, a Big Data analytics and database vendor co-founded by StreamBase and Vertica founder Michael Stonebraker, has hired Shyam Sundar as head of sales for Asia Pacific, to expand the vendor's presence in the region.
FINRA, MSRB Push for Bond Reference Price Disclosure
Industry rulemaking bodies FINRA and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board are seeking comments from the industry on proposals to make bond dealers disclose same-day trade prices in the same security on trade confirmations sent to clients for retail…
Opening Cross: In Search of Data’s ‘Perfect Harmony’
Against the often-discordant melody of the financial markets, it’s good to know that there’s always a harmony playing in the background to support that melody, hold everything together, and ensure we’re all singing from the same songbook, rather than…
SmartMarketData Preps for Jobs Data Analytics
Startup data provider SmartMarketData is preparing to enter the second phase of its launch, where it will develop proprietary analytics to accompany the datasets it distributes, to make it easier for investment professionals beyond quantitative analysts…
Ukrainian Exchange Eyes Data Policy Harmonization with Moscow Exchange
The move would bring the exchanges in line from a policy perspective, as well as a technical perspective.
Chi-X Australia Hires NuPont's Lampropoulos for Market Data
Industry vet's resume includes Chi-X, Alpha Exchange, StatPro, Reuters, Macquarie, Bankers Trust and Pont
Deutsche Börse Adds Cleartrade Data to CEF Feed
Data alliance will make it easier for traders and vendors to connect to Cleartrade data
BM&F, S&P DJI Ally for Brazilian Indexes
Indexes will serve as the basis for the creation of investable products and potential asset class expansion.