Articles by Max Bowie
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…
ISE Shuffles Data Execs, Soule Exits
The International Securities Exchange has reorganized the team of executives responsible for the exchange's market data, resulting in an expanded role for business development officer Jeanine Hightower and the departure of former head of market data Jeff…
Deutsche Börse Names Information Mosaic's Keller CIO
German exchange group Deutsche Börse has appointed René Keller group chief information officer for the exchange's IT and Market Data and Services division, and group-wide head of applications and infrastructure, effective Feb. 1, 2014.
HKEx Data Goes Live on NYSE SuperFeed
NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of NYSE Euronext, is making consolidated market data from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's new Orion Market Data platform-which utilizes underlying technology from NYSE Technologies-via NYSE Technologies'…
Max Bowie: Fifty Shades of Grey Areas on Exchange Data Contracts
Exchanges have long bonded clients to strict contracts to monitor usage of their market data. But with few standards around these contracts, Max says these bonds are increasingly becoming devices of torture that not even the Marquis de Sade would enjoy.
Opening Cross: ‘Connect’ With Your Clients As Well As Their Algos
Long ago, the barrier to being an independent trader was money—the capital required to buy a seat on an exchange. As exchanges became electronic, the barrier became not just money, but also the technology required to access the exchange’s data. Now, this…
CQG Readies QTrader Entry-Level Data-Trading Workstation
Denver, Colorado-based data, charting and trading technology provider CQG is preparing to unveil a new, low-cost data and trading terminal, dubbed QTrader, aimed at semi-professional futures traders and the futures commission merchants that serve them.
NetDania Preps Trading-Data FX Workstation
Danish foreign exchange data display and technology provider NetDania is preparing to roll out a trading-enabled version of its NetStation data and analytics workstation, which will allow retail brokerage firms to white-label the platform as a trading…
Famanet-Thomson Reuters Court Case Begins in Cyprus
Hearings have finally begun in the long-running lawsuit brought by Cyprus-based data vendor Famanet Holdings against Thomson Reuters.
Moody's Brings in S&P's Burleigh
Damian Burleigh recently left his role as managing director of S&P Capital IQ for EMEA in London to join Moody's Analytics, the data and software arm of rival ratings agency Moody's as senior director of sales and client services.
TS-A Integrates Solarflare for ‘Virtual' Monitoring Appliances
London-based latency monitoring and instrumentation provider TS-Associates has integrated Irvine, Calif.-based data and networking technology vendor Solarflare's Flareon server input/output adapters and its SolarCapture packet capture technology with TS…
TR Bows Canadian MBS Pricing
Thomson Reuters has launched an evaluated pricing service for Canadian mortgage-backed securities as part of its Thomson Reuters Pricing Service that prices 2.5 million global fixed income securities, derivatives and loans daily, to help clients assess…
SecLending Data Vendor DataLend Grows Coverage
DataLend, the New York-based market data vendor arm of securities finance trading and post-trade platform provider EquiLend, has expanded the number of firms contributing data to its service, bringing the total inventory value covered by its data to $10…
Post-Zeptonics Lawsuit, Zomojo Spins Off Exablaze, Releases Sub-Microsecond NIC
Australian technology provider Exablaze, a spin-off from high-frequency trading firm Zomojo, has built and released an ultra-low-latency network interface card that officials say can distribute market data within an organization with less than a…
Deutsche Börse Opens Data-Trading Simulation Cloud
Deutsche Börse's Market Data and Services division has unveiled a cloud-based market simulation environment for trading firms to develop and test applications designed to work with its Eurex derivatives market's T7 trading architecture-which is designed…
SIX Financial Information ‘Sharpens' US Sales with Brinker, Brodhead
SIX Financial Information, the data vendor business of Swiss exchange and clearing parent organization SIX Group, has reorganized its US sales function with the appointments of a new senior sales manager and a new head of solutions sales to replace…
SIX Welcomes New Senior US Sales Execs
Warren Brinker joins as senior sales manager and Keith Brodhead joins as head of solutions sales at SIX Financial Information
Ex-UBS CTO Founds Cloud Startup
Andy Brown, former group chief technology officer at UBS, has left the Swiss bank to set up Street Scale IT Group, a company that will focus on bringing IT economies of scale around datacenters and cloud hosting to regulated industries, starting with…
Rimes Launches Index Data Management Tool
Benchmark and economic data provider Rimes Technologies has begun a soft launch of its Data Governance Service, a new add-on layer to its Benchmark Data Service managed service of cleansed index and economic datasets, which will help clients monitor and…