Articles by Max Bowie
Update: OPRA Data Issue Halts Options Exchanges
The Options Price Reporting Authority was forced to cancel a software upgrade for its feed of consolidated US options quote and trade data on Monday Sept. 16, after the upgrade caused issues with calculation of the national best bid and offer price,…
OTC Markets Grows Disclosures News Service
New York-based over-the-counter equities marketplace OTC Markets is rolling out new features as part of its OTC Disclosure & News Service to make it easier for investors to research privately-held companies whose equity is traded on the exchange's OTCQX,…
EPFR Brings on Badolato in HK
Fund flows data provider EPFR Global has hired Elizabeth Badolato as business development manager in Hong Kong to expand the vendor's presence in Asia, reflecting the growth of its client base in the region, which was previously supported from the vendor…
Ipreo to Market FactSet Data to Corporates
Company data and investor relations service provider Ipreo has struck a deal with FactSet Research Systems to distribute the FactSet workstation and the vendor's FactSet for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet add-in to corporate clients, as part of Ipreo's…
SIX FI's Kevil Goes West
SIX Financial Information has relocated sales executive Kimberly Kevil from the US East Coast to the San Francisco Bay Area to support large and important clients on the West Coast, and to lead sales in California and Mexico, and reporting to Barry…
UTP Participants Propose Adding Odd-Lot Trades to Tape
The Securities and Exchange Commission is inviting comments on proposals by the exchange participants in the UTP (Unlisted Trading Privilege) consolidated tape of quote and trade data in Nasdaq-listed stocks to include odd-lot trades on the UTP last sale…
EPFR Debuts ChartBook Fund Flows Analysis, Commentary
Boston-based fund flows information provider EPFR Global will at the end of this month launch a new weekly commentary service, dubbed ChartBook, which describes market trends and trade ideas based on the vendor's fund flows data, to make it easier for…
MNI Indicators Builds BRICs
MNI Indicators, the macroeconomic data division of Deutsche Börse's Market News International, has released new consumer and business confidence indicators for Brazil, India and Russia, expanding on its existing MNI China consumer and business sentiment…
Axioma Adds Credit Suisse HOLT Fundamental Data
Risk management and index analytics provider Axioma has integrated fundamental factor data from Credit Suisse's HOLT fundamental analysis, idea generation and benchmarking platform into the Performance Attribution module of Axioma Portfolio Analytics and…
NYSE Tech, First Derivatives Ally for As-a-Service Offerings
NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of NYSE Euronext, is working with Northern Ireland-based data management software vendor First Derivatives to develop a suite of historical data-as-a-service solutions, dubbed Tick as a Service, that will…
Estimize Launches ‘Select Consensus' Weighted Estimates
New York-based crowd-sourced estimates data provider Estimize has launched a weighted consensus estimates service, dubbed Select Consensus, which aims to refine the vendor's current consensus estimates by identifying factors that make a contributor's…
Chi-X Canada Bows "Retail Professional" Intermediate Data Fee Tier
Alternative trading system Chi-X Canada has introduced a new tier of market data fees for professionals such as investment advisors serving retail investors, developed with the assistance of market data and technology product management and marketing…
Deutsche Börse Sets up Vienna Data, Trading Access in Interxion Datacenter
German exchange group Deutsche Börse has expanded its European connectivity network by adding an access point at European datacenter and hosting provider Interxion's datacenter campus in Vienna.
NYSE Tech Gets China Data Nod
The Chinese State Council Information Office has granted NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of exchange group NYSE Euronext, approval to distribute market datato market participants in mainland China.
OPRA Data Issue Halts Options Exchanges
Unidentified system issues at the Options Price Reporting Authority, which creates the OPRA consolidated feed of US options quote and trade data, forced options exchanges to halt trading this afternoon.
Pico, SpryWare Ally on Latency Offerings
Chicago-based ticker plant and feed handler provider SpryWare has struck a deal with New York-based agency broker and infrastructure provider Pico Trading to offer Pico’s clients access to the vendor’s feed handlers, and in return gain access to Pico’s…
OliveTree Taps Markit for SecLending Data
London-based analytics provider OliveTree Financial Group has integrated securities lending data from data provider Markit into its OTAS (OliveTree Trading Analysis System) analytics platform, which captures data on different asset classes and factors to…
Selerity Eyes Hires as Event Trading Renaissance Drives Demand
Selerity, a New York-based provider of low-latency unstructured events data, is preparing to expand its sales and analyst team in response to growing demand for its Selerity Alerts product.
First Derivatives Picks Pruett for US Growth
Newry, Northern Ireland-based data management technology vendor First Derivatives has appointed former SIX Financial Information executive Jonathan Pruett head of strategic business development for the Americas, responsible for expanding the vendor's…
Xignite Grows Market Data Cloud Cover
San Mateo-based on-demand data provider Xignite has added two new services-CloudFiles and CloudStreaming─to its Market Data Cloud service, in addition to its existing CloudAPIs for applications and developers to access the vendor's data.
SocGen Bond Prices on Thomson Reuters Trading Platform, Data Services
Société Générale has begun contributing cash bond prices to Thomson Reuters' Fixed Income Trading electronic platform, expanding the bank's price distribution to a broader base of trading desks at private banks and wealth managers, while increasing the…
Derivative Path Taps Fincad for OTC Derivative Analytics, Valuations
Derivative Path, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based startup provider of automated trading technologies for the over-the-counter derivatives markets, has incorporated Vancouver, Canada-based OTC derivatives pricing and risk management vendor Fincad's analytics…
Mariner Trawls MSCI ESG Data for Alpha
New York-based alternative asset manager Mariner Investment Group is to use ESG (environmental, social and governance) ratings and portfolio analysis tools from MSCI ESG Research, to support the incorporation of ESG factors into Mariner's investment…