Articles by Max Bowie
Estimize Brings Crowd-Sourced Estimates to Excel
Plug-in will enable use of vendor's crowd-sourced estimates data in spreadsheet models
Moscow Exchange Preps Datacenter Move
Exchange begins 18-month datacenter migration from multiple facilities to single Moscow datacenter
'Social' Trading Firm 8 Securities Gets Funding for Mobile Wealth Platform
Hong Kong-based trading firm 8 Securities, which captures data from social media sources and allows participants to crowd-source trading ideas from other analysts on the platform, has raised $8.7 million in Series B financing to accelerate its mobile…
SolarFlare Sheds Light on Network Capture Through ‘SolarSystem'
Hardware acceleration and network technology provider Solarflare has released a new network data capture platform, dubbed Capture SolarSystem, which captures network and query activity and statistics.
Centralization Proving Key To Data Management
Benchmark Data Costs Can Be Reduced By Managed Services, Roundtable Panelists Say
Opening Cross: The ’Center of the Data Universe
With coverage of our Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference taking center stage in this week’s Inside Market Data, debating new initiatives such as the planned Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program—and its unexpected, indefinite delay—and the…
Rimes Panel Tackles Rising Data Management Costs
Cost, data quality and data management needs drive managed services debate.
APFIC 2014: Big Data in Big Demand, But Still Big Challenge
While specific use cases for Big Data technologies vary across an organization, demand for the capability to consume, process and analyze increasingly large volumes of data is ubiquitous across trading firms' front, middle and back offices, according to…
DealVector Adds SCI Prices to ‘BWIC Board'
DealVector will make SCI data available free of charge for a 30-day period
Perseus Sets Up Irish Ops Center
Fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom has set up a network operations center in Galway, Ireland to provide 24/7 operations support for the vendors clients 365 days per year to support the vendor’s managed network services.
Datafeeds Special Report
Sponsored by SIX Financial Information
UTP Committee Renews Nasdaq as SIP Processor
Nasdaq is re-confirmed as processor and administrator of the UTP SIP
CQG Adds Chicago Access to TOCOM Data
New connectivity points will make it easier for firms to trade on CME and TOCOM via a single connection
Update: Nasdaq Readies Chicago PoP, DR Site
Nasdaq's new PoP will provide low-latency access to eSpeed and its equities and derivatives markets.
CFN Adds Full-Depth eSpeed Data to Alpha Platform, Microwave Net
New fixed income data will expand appeal of vendor's platform, while accelerating eSpeed data delivery
Nasdaq Adds Implied Order Data to PHLX Feeds
Nasdaq will add data for implied orders──orders also known as "legging orders" that are generated by Nasdaq that represent one leg of a complex order──to its PHLX Orders and PHLX Depth of Market datafeeds starting Thursday, Nov. 13, following the…
ASX Creates PoP in CME Aurora Co-Lo Center
Co-lo presence will allow US firms to connect directly to ASX data.
BATS Swoops on Ex-Nasdaq's Concannon
Former Nasdaq exec Chris Concannon takes senior role at rival exchange
Ipreo Buys Shareholder InSite to Build Private Company Dataset for Private Equity Markets
New York-based information and technology vendor Ipreo has acquired shareholder workflow tools provider Shareholder InSite for an undisclosed sum to provide investors in privately held companies with data and analytics tools to support valuations and…
Opening Cross: All About That Data
This week, I had the pleasure of helping out on two of Inside Market Data’s stablemates at Incisive Media, ClickZ and Search Engine Watch, and realized that while we serve different markets and audiences, there’s a lot of crossover in terms of themes…
Narrative Science Dips Quill into Portfolio Commentary
Chicago based data-to-text automation software vendor Narrative Science has rolled out Quill for Portfolio Commentary, a module to accompany its Quill platform that uses artificial intelligence to transform data into text narratives, developed to…
Max Bowie: The Next ‘Big’ Thing: Big Service
Data has far-reaching uses beyond the split-second trade, including promoting flow by delivering better service. So, to celebrate data’s role in customer service, please allow Max to uncork a Balthazar of big data.
Exablaze Grows Low-Latency Data Switch Family
Melbourne, Australia-based low-latency switch provider Exablaze has unveiled ExaLink Fusion, a full-service low-latency switch aimed at high-frequency and algorithmic traders for incoming market data distribution and for sending trade orders back to…
Genscape Brings Power Supply Monitoring Data to UK Market
Energy and commodities supply data provider Genscape has expanded its coverage to monitor power flow and generation monitoring in the UK.