Articles by Max Bowie
Panel: Robust Data Management Required for Big Data
Big Data may not be living up to its hype among large asset managers, who seem unwilling to explore its use for more esoteric and less established analysis techniques, according to a panel at the Buy-Side Technology North American Summit in New York on…
MSCI Names ex-UBS' Corrado CIO
Index provider MSCI has appointed Chris Corrado to the newly created position of chief information officer, responsible for ensuring the vendor provides "leading-edge products and services" that help clients achieve their business goals.
Honoré Founds MarketsTech ‘Disruptive' Advisory Firm
Adam Honoré, former research director at Aite Group and managing director at Nasdaq OMX, has set up MarketsTech LLC, a consultancy that will advise emerging companies on strategies for bringing disruptive products to the capital markets.
Thomson Reuters Adds IIR Energy Refinery Info to Eikon
Thomson Reuters has added data on planned maintenance of oil refineries from Houston, Texas-based IIR Energy to its Eikon next-generation desktop, to provide oil traders with supply chain data about maintenance at more than 600 refineries worldwide in…
Kelly to Succeed Phillips as Morningstar Research Head
Chicago-based investment research and data provider Morningstar has named Haywood Kelly its new head of research, effective Jan. 1, 2014, taking over from Don Phillips, who is stepping down from the role, but will remain a managing director and board…
Industry ‘Advocate' Tom Jordan Wins FISD Lifetime Achievement Award
At the World Financial Information Summit event in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday, industry association FISD presented its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award to Tom Jordan, founder, president and chief executive of Jordan & Jordan-perhaps the best-known…
Banco Carregosa Rolls Out NYSE Tech SuperFeed
Porto, Portugal-based private bank and online brokerage Banco Carregosa has signed up to use the SuperFeed consolidated feed of market data from US, European and Asian markets from NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of NYSE Euronext, to…
Korea Exchange Taps Solace Appliances
The Korea Exchange is to roll out Ottawa-based hardware-based messaging provider Solace Systems' appliances as the data delivery infrastructure for its upcoming Exture+ next-generation, low-latency trading platform for equities, bonds and derivatives,…
Arqa Tech Integrates S&P Cap IQ Feed
Russian financial software vendor Arqa Technologies has integrated S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions' ConsolidatedFeed product into its Quik front-office trading terminal for brokers and dealers, to provide clients with access to a global consolidated…
LSE Preps Wireless Data Net to Equinix Slough
The London Stock Exchange will next month go live with low-latency wireless connectivity between its datacenter in the City of London and Equinix's datacenter campus in Slough, west of London, which many market operators and trading firms have chosen to…
Boldizsar Builds Brazil, LatAm Advisory Biz
Luis Boldizsar, a former sales and business development executive for Latin American markets at Thomson Reuters and Interactive Data, has set up LatVance Assessoria Comercial, an advisory firm focused on helping international companies understand and…
Eagle Alpha Switches on Sonar to Swoop on ‘Social' Financial Data
Startup social media data provider Eagle Alpha has unveiled Social Sonar, a service that compiles lists of key sources and influencers on Twitter to give sell-side, buy-side and individual investors read-only access to market-moving information on stocks…
Deutsche Börse, BSE Ally on Data Sales, Development
Deutsche Börse's Market Data and Services division has struck a deal to become the exclusive licensor of the Bombay Stock Exchange's data products to international customers.
StatPro Preps Expanded Revolution Data-Sharing Capabilities
UK-based portfolio analytics and investment data provider StatPro has added new permissioning capabilities to its Revolution cloud-based analytics platform, to allow users to share portfolio data with others within their organization, as well as with…
Empirasign Expands Agency Mortgage Data
New York-based Empirasign Strategies, a provider of dealer offerings and “trade color” for mortgage and asset-backed securities, has expanded its database with the addition of data on Agency Fixed Rate Specified Offerings, to complete its coverage of…
Panin AM Follows Flows Data with EPFR ChartBook
Indonesian investment manager Panin Asset Management has begun using fund flows data provider EPFR Global's recently launched ChartBook service to monitor investors' risk appetites and decisions about what regions and asset classes to invest in.
Credit Benchmark Readies Launch for 2014
London-based startup consensus credit ratings provider Credit Benchmark has begun its proof-of-concept phase with an undisclosed number of contributing banks, ahead of a full production launch scheduled for early next year.
Interxion to Host ASX London PoP
The Australian Securities Exchange has set up a point of presence for its ASX Net Global connectivity network at European datacenter provider Interxion's facility in the City of London, to provide UK and European trading firms with cross-connect access…
Lucena Adds Intra-day Event Detection
Atlanta, GA-based decision support analytics provider Lucena Research has added support for intra-day signals to its QuantDesk Event Analyzer module, a machine learning event study technology for identifying buying and selling opportunities based on…
CME, Perseus Bow Precision Timestamping in Aurora Co-Lo
CME Group has installed highly accurate timing technology from network provider Perseus Telecom in its Aurora, Illinois co-location center, to allow clients to synchronize timing across trading systems in multiple datacenters.
Platts Forges Metals Partnership with Germany's MVS
Energy and commodities data provider Platts has struck a deal to take an undisclosed investment stake in German iron ore and steel data provider Minerals Value Service and become the exclusive distributor of MVS's web-based value-in-use tool, which…
State Street Adds Analytics Vets
State Street Global Exchange, the newly-formed data and analytics business of State Street, has hired Jeffrey Bohn as head of portfolio analytics and valuation, and Thomas Hughes as senior product strategist for analytics.
MDX, Ropnoy Ally for Spreadsheet Data Migrations
London-based market data connectivity platform and spreadsheet add-in provider MDX Technology has enlisted Ropnoy, a UK-based market data consultancy and software vendor, to help clients convert spreadsheets that consume data within their organizations…