Articles by Max Bowie
AlgoSpan Lands in Lunda Datacenter
Ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure and market data connectivity provider AlgoSpan has set up a point of presence in Nasdaq OMX's datacenter in Lunda, just outside Stockholm.
APFIC Panelists: Big Data Presents Big Challenges in Asia
Big Data remains a big challenge for financial firms to derive value from around the world, but may prove an even bigger challenge in Asia-Pacific as a result of local idiosyncrasies that could make it harder to take advantage of Big Data analysis,…
APFIC Keynote: Regulations Require Standards Collaboration
The financial industry must collaborate on standards and standardized processes if it is to successfully manage the challenges and costs of compliance with the data aspects of the current flood of new regulations─and get ahead of future rules─said Nick…
Opening Cross: When You Look East, Look Up and Look Out
Regulation dominated the agenda at last week's Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference. But is the region ready for the data management implications of new global and regional requirements?
HKEx Preps OMD for Derivs, New Gateways
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is preparing to migrate its derivatives market data to its new Orion Market Data platform, which went live last month for equities data, along with the implementation of the Nasdaq OMX Genium Inet platform for its…
S&P Cap IQ Expands ‘Regional Leaders' for Asia Focus
S&P Capital IQ has created three new positions across the Asia-Pacific region and appointed "regional market leaders" to serve as senior representatives for the vendor and its entire product line while providing local market expertise in specific…
APFIC Panelists: Big Data Presents Big Challenges in Asia
Big Data remains a big challenge for financial firms to derive value from around the world, but may prove an even bigger challenge in Asia-Pacific as a result of local idiosyncrasies that could make it harder to take advantage of Big Data analysis,…
APFIC Panel: In Buy-vs-Build Debate, Vendor Value is Key
Data sourcing professionals at financial firms want to see vendors focus less on entrenching themselves via long-term deals to retain business and more on winning and earning business through innovation and competitive pricing─though vendors say they…
Panel: Grasp Opportunities of Regulatory Complexities
The raft of current and upcoming regulations is creating opportunities as well as challenges for trading and investment firms in the Asia-Pacific region, though many outside of the largest firms are still not prepared for the data complexities and…
Banks, Providers Failing to Innovate on Data, Says APFIC End-User Panel
Neither end-user firms nor vendors are doing enough to innovate their way out of budgetary woes towards growth, with internal cultures contributing to stagnation by not fostering creative ideas, said a panel of consumer firms at the Asia Pacific…
APFIC Keynote: Regulations Require Standards Collaboration
The financial industry must collaborate on standards and standardized processes if it is to successfully manage the challenges and costs of compliance with the data aspects of the current flood of new regulations─and get ahead of future rules─said Nick…
EESAT Readies Complex Order Book Feeds, Tools
EESAT, a startup spin-off from trading firm MEB Options providing market data on complex order books of multi-leg trades between asset classes, is preparing to unveil the first product in a suite of new data services based on tools originally developed…
First Call, CCBN Founder Parker Named EidoSearch Chairman
Jeff Parker, founder of First Call and CCBN StreetEvents, and a former chairman and chief executive of Thomson Financial, has joined Toronto-based pattern recognition and analytics provider EidoSearch as chairman of its board, to help guide the vendor to…
KVH Preps JPX Co-Lo
Japanese network provider KVH is to begin offering co-location at the Japan Exchange Group, providing local and international trading firms with low-latency access to the market data and trading on the Osaka Securities Exchange's J-Gate derivatives…
Barchart Bows Android Data-Trading App
Chicago-based data and analytics provider Barchart has launched a mobile version of its Barchart Trader market data and commodities trading platform for Android devices.
Markit Taps former UBS CIO Trogni for Solutions
Michele Trogni, former group chief information officer at UBS, has joined data provider Markit in New York as managing director and global head of the vendor's solutions business (which is co-headed by Daniel Simpson, who joined Markit as a result of its…
SIX Financial Information Adds APA Austrian News to iD Terminal
Swiss data vendor SIX Financial Information has added real-time news from Austrian news provider APA-Finance to its Telekurs iD desktop data, news and analysis terminal, as a free add-on for Austrian subscribers to its Wealth and Asset Management…
Markit Adds TCA Analytics to Eze OMS
Buy-side order management system vendor Eze Software is making transaction cost analysis capabilities from UK-based data vendor Markit available to clients of its Eze OMS, to allow users to vice pre-trade forecasts-covering the market impact nad…
Xignite Taps Nasdaq FinQloud to ‘Accelerate’ Data Cloud Adoption
San Mateo, Calif.-based on-demand data provider Xignite has migrated its entire web services data infrastructure to Nasdaq OMX’s FinQloud hybrid financial services-dedicated cloud computing environment, to accelerate cloud acceptance and adoption among…
National Bank Financial Deploys NovaSparks FPGAs
Canadian investment bank National Bank Financial, a subsidiary of the National Bank of Canada, has rolled out French data technology provider NovaSparks' FPGA Matrix feed handler framework─which delivers deterministic "wire-to-memory" and order book…
Redline Preps Asian Feeds, HK Presence
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant vendor Redline Trading Solutions is adding support for datafeeds from Asian exchanges, and has established an office in Hong Kong to provide technical support to clients in the region.
Opening Cross: Things That Go Bump in the Night
The combination of Halloween and Mercury in retrograde is creating some haunting technical glitches and cost challenges for the data industry.
BATS Enlists Interactive Data for Low-Cost Data Terminals
US exchange operator BATS Global Markets has launched two new desktop data and analytics workstations, developed in conjunction with Interactive Data and based on the vendor's own terminal products, utilizing BATS' free-of-charge equities data.
Asia-Pacific Stock Exchange Startup Readies Data, Research Ahead of Launch
The Asia-Pacific Stock Exchange (APX), a new Sydney, Australia-based exchange that will list equities in Chinese and Australian companies, will begin rolling out a suite of data services with an emphasis on news and fundamental research, when it launches…