Articles by Max Bowie
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…
ML Bond Index Adds Fitch Ratings
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added credit ratings content from Fitch Ratings to its ML Bond Market index, as an additional factor in the assessment of investment-grade and speculative-grade bonds.
BME Preps Real-Time Volatility Indexes
Spanish exchange group Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles will begin calculating a new family of eight target volatility indexes on Sept. 24, dubbed the IBEX Volatilidad Objetivo or IBEX 35 Target Volatility, expanding the exchange's existing IBEX 35 index…
ITRS Grows Partner Data Interfaces
UK-based application monitoring software vendor ITRS has expanded its partner program to include Caplin Systems, Corvil, Misys, Niksun and VMware, to allow ITRS' Geneos platform to extract data to extract data from the vendors' applications, including…
CQG Adds FastMarkets Metals Data
Denver, Colo.-based data, trading and analytics provider CQG has added London-based FastMarkets' Premium Metals News to the metals market data and trading capabilities already available in CQG's platform.
Tradition Taps Corvil for Monitoring
Interdealer broker Tradition has rolled out Dublin-based latency and performance monitoring technology provider Corvil's CorvilNet monitoring platform to provide real-time visibility into data and execution latency and operational performance statistics…
Pricing Vet Kelsey Moves to Mortgage CRM Vendor
Former Reuters exec Michele Kelsey has joined Vantage Integrated Production, a provider of CRM, workflow and data management tools for mortgage lenders, as regional vice president of sales for the Midwest US, based in New York.
TriOptima Turns on DTCC Data Link
TriOptima─a provider of post-trade infrastructure, processing and risk management solutions for over-the-counter derivatives, owned by interdealer broker Icap─has gone live with a link to capture market data on OTC derivatives trades reported to the…
Behavioral Indicator Vendor Titan TA Closes
Titan Trading Analytics, the Edmonton, Canada and Atlanta, GA-based provider of trading signals based on behavioral analytics, has shut down as a result of “financial difficulties” and an inability to meet its financial obligations, Inside Market Data…
Barchart Unveils New Data-Trading Terminal
Chicago-based data and analytics vendor Barchart has released Barchart Trader, a new data workstation built from scratch to deliver a new and modern interface that can broaden the vendor's potential audience and make it easier for traders to access…
FactSet Buys Revere
FactSet Research Systems has acquired San Francisco-based research and industry classification provider Revere Data for an undisclosed sum.
Code Red Hires President, Preps Expansion
Boston-based research management system provider Code Red has made two executive appointments in preparation for a hiring spree designed to increase the vendor's capacity to win and support larger deals for its Core Red RMS (formerly called Red Alerts)…
Wainwright to Head SAP Financial Biz
Data management and analytics technology provider SAP has named Ross Wainwright global head of financial services industries in Chicago, responsible for the vendor's banking, insurance and capital markets clients worldwide.
eVestment Integrates Morningstar Data into Analytics Tools
Data from Chicago-based investment research and data provider Morningstar is now available via fund management software provider eVestment's analytics solutions suite, including its PerTrac and Fundspire systems.
SIX Financial Info Taps Savvis for Chicago Datacenter
SIX Financial Information has added a datacenter in Chicago, within a facility operated by datacenter and hosting provider Savvis.
Telx Grows 350 Cermak Space
Datacenter and hosting provider Telx has expanded its presence at Digital Realty Trust's 350 East Cermak Road facility in Chicago, with an additional two suites of co-location space and a power increase of 1.2 megawatts, bringing its total presence to…
Redline Adds Low-Latency Synthetic Options NBBO
Woburn, Mass-based low-latency ticker plant and trading technology provider Redline Trading Solutions has added support for calculating a synthetic options national best bid and offer within its InRush 3 ticker plant, generating an NBBO from direct…
AlphaSense Adds International Filings Search
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of tools for searching and extracting unstructured financial data from corporate documents and filings, has expanded its indexed content set with international company data in response to client demand for data…