Articles by Max Bowie
Max Bowie: Are You Getting the Message?
Instant messaging conversations to share information and negotiate trades are a staple of the modern trader’s workflow. But with recent events leaving market participants wary of messaging platforms, Max wonders whether firms examining new initiatives,…
Opening Cross: You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks... But New Tricks Still Need Old Dogs
It takes a certain blend of skills to combine the experience that comes with age and the dynamism of youth. For eternity, mankind has tried both to put old heads on young shoulders, and find ways to teach old dogs new tricks and recapture the energy and…
AlphaSense Taps Trio of Sales Execs
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of a financial search engine for indexing and extracting structured and unstructured data from corporate documents and filings, has bolstered its sales team with several recent hires to meet increased client…
Morningstar iPad App Ups Content, Capabilities
Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar recently updated its Morningstar for iPad research, market monitoring and portfolio management app with new content and capabilities.
Mergent Adds Barchart Commodity Yearbook to Historical Document Archive
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart's Commodity Research Bureau division has made the 75-year archive of its CRB Commodity Yearbook available via company data provider Mergent's Mergent Archives, an online database of more than 180,000 indexed corporate…
Invstr App Harvests Sentiment Data from Trading Game
Invstr, a social network specifically for financial markets information distribution to investors created by a former Deutsche Bank exec, has launched a mobile trading game app that allows financial professionals and retail investors to predict market…
Nasdaq PHLX Adds Data Specs to Options Feeds
Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly the Philadelphia Stock Exchange) is updating the specifications for three options data products, to include additional data in existing order exposure alerts and a solicitation mechanism.
Statistical Data Products Vet Goldberg Climbs at CBOE
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has promoted 34-year CBOE veteran Alicia Goldberg to vice president of statistical analysis.
New Taiwan Exchange Platform Slashes Latency, Triples Capacity
The Taiwan Stock Exchange has rolled out the second generation of its trading platform, dramatically increasing the system's capacity and throughput, and reducing latency, to support the introduction of continuous trading next year.
Data Audit Recoveries Boost Moscow Exchange H1 Revenues
The Moscow Exchange has reported a 42 percent year-on-year increase in first half information services revenues for the six-month period ending June 30, to RR (Russian rubles) 241.7 million ($6.7 million), from RR170.7 million ($4.7 million) in 2013.
CQG Preps Mobile Charting, Cross-Asset Data
Data, charting and trading software vendor CQG is enhancing its CQG M mobile data and trading application with charting tools and data on multiple asset classes in response to customer feedback, as part of an effort by the vendor to make the mobile…
EPFR Jumps for Joyce
Cambridge, Mass.-based fund flows data provider EPFR Global has hired data industry vet Larry Joyce as sales director, based in New York, and focusing on sales to asset managers, mutual funds and hedge funds in the New York tri-state area.
Opening Cross: Sun, Summer, and the Pursuit of the ‘Simple’ Life
The world of market data is encumbered by a multitude of complexities. Not only is the business of data complex, but so is the data itself, and so too are the underlying markets and instruments that require such complex datasets. So key to preventing…
EESAT Preps Equinix NY4 Datacenter Move for COB Feeds
Chicago-based EESAT, a provider of market data on complex order book trading activity──comprising multi-leg trades between options and other asset classes──is moving its datacenter to Equinix's NY4 facility in Secaucus, NJ, to make it easier for…
Pricing Vet Blance Unveils Voltaire Advisors Valuation Risk Consultancy
Market data and evaluated pricing industry veteran Ian Blance has set up a new London-based company, Voltaire Advisors, to provide consulting services around valuation risk to buy-side clients and the hedge fund administrators, asset servicing firms and…
Thomson Reuters/Aite Survey: Big Data Usage Remains Limited in Capital Markets
Almost 95 percent of financial firms claim to have no experience or knowledge of Big Data, according to a survey of buy-side and sell-side firms by Aite Group on behalf of Thomson Reuters, reflecting relatively slow adoption of Big Data strategies…
JSE Reports Data Revenue Rise
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has reported first-half data revenues of 95.4 million South African rand, a 16 percent increase over the same period last year, on overall group operating revenue of R869 million, itself a 9 percent increase over the…
Platts Expands Chinese Coal Data Deal
Energy and commodities data provider Platts has added two new price assessments for thermal coal in China as a result of expanding an existing agreement with Chinese commodities data provider Shanxi Fenwei Energy Consulting Company.
Options Turns to Morrow for Account Management
Managed data and trading infrastructure provider Options has appointed Stephen Morrow senior vice president and global head of account management, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
TMX Preps US-Canada Microwave Network with Strike Acquisition
TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange operator TMX Group, has bought the StrikeNet low-latency microwave network business of Strike Technologies from parent group, New York-based market maker and trading technology provider Global…
CQG Unveils ‘Stripped' Data, Charting Terminal
Denver, Colo.-based data, trading and analytics software vendor CQG has released a new, low-cost market data workstation, dubbed CQG Select, to provide an alternative to more expensive terminal displays for proprietary trading firms facing cost pressures.
HKEx Bows ASP Partner Program
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has set up a program to allow application service providers to establish direct links to HKEx's trading and data systems to provide managed connectivity services to clients, which exchange officials say can lower…
Rimes Adds Dow Jones Commodity Index
Benchmark index and economic data provider Rimes Technologies has added Dow Jones' Commodity Index series to its Benchmark Data Service, providing buy-side clients with processed and validated access to the data.
Thomson Reuters Debuts ‘Watchlist Pulse' Buy-Side Insight App
Thomson Reuters has unveiled Watchlist Pulse, an application within the vendor's Eikon data workstation aimed at providing buy-side professionals with a series of easy-to-understand scores for companies in their portfolios, which allow users to quickly…