Emerging Technologies
Azure Disruptions Show Firms Need a Plan for When Outages Occur
Abacus CTO Viktor Tadijanovic discusses having proper contingencies in place for a service interruption
BGC Extends Tender Offer for GFI
Interdealer broker adds to deadline as it settles breach of rules with FCA.
Goldman Sachs Invests in Big Data Analytics Start-Up
Goldman becomes the largest strategic investor in Kensho
Data Vets Sigillo, Johnson Establish MDI ‘Data Management-as-a-Service’ Practice
New offering targets boutique firms.
Wiener Börse to Distribute, License Zagreb Exchange Data
Agreement exposes Zagreb data to a wider international audience via Wiener Börse's "one-stop shop."
FIX Unites Market Data, High-Performance Working Groups
Standards body FIX Trading Community has combined its Market Data Optimization Working Group (MDOWG)—the group responsible for developing recommendations for enhancing the FIX Protocol trade messaging format to support market data transmission—with its…
Opening Cross: Putting the ‘Custom’ in ‘Customer’
Talk to a market data manager at any firm, and chances are they view vendors and exchanges as money-grubbing monsters that exist purely to squeeze revenues from their hapless clients with little thought to customer service or satisfaction.
Data Vets Sigillo, Johnson Establish MDI ‘Data Management-as-a-Service’ Practice
Market data management veterans Rich Sigillo and Cindy Johnson have set up a new company focused on providing market data expense management and optimization as a managed service for firms that are not large enough to have a dedicated market data…
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Matthew Seymour, Managing Director, RiskFirst
OptionsCity's CEO Discusses Optionshop Acquisition
Clients will see new products/functionality over next 6-12 months
Emerging Exchanges: Partnering for Power
Exchanges in emerging markets are teaming up with developed exchanges for technology and knowledge.
ETAS Panel: Future Analysis Needs Drive Clean, Fast Data
Panel weighs challenges of managing and analyzing anticipated future data volumes to gain insight.
December 2014: How Soft Are You?
While having good technology is a start, Victor says soft skills are necessary to win clients and gain an advantage over rivals.
Quandl Adds Sharadar Fundamentals to Financial Data Search Engine
Startup fundamental data supplier will provide comparable data at lower cost for Quandl users, officials say.
Tyler Capital Taps Donnan as CTO
He leaves after four years at Barclays.
Wall Street Horizon Appoints Fador President and CCO
Woburn, Mass.-based corporate earnings and event data provider Wall Street Horizon has appointed Bruce Fador president and chief commercial officer, responsible for managing the vendor's single-stock event calendar dataset and helping customers better…
Banks May Face Kodak Moment if Digital Revolution is Ignored
Traditional banks could be facing severe challenges if they cannot adapt to the growing power of the fintech start-up community, and harness emerging technologies, senior executives from leading banks have argued.
McObject, Lucera Offer eXtremeDB Database in Cloud
Federal Way, Wash.-based in-memory database provider McObject will make its high-performance eXtremeDB Financial Edition database available on an as-a-service basis in the cloud to clients of New York-based high-performance infrastructure provider Lucera…
Microsoft Azure Suffers Interruption
For the second time in less than four months Microsoft's cloud-computing platform falters.
Newedge Adds to Capital Introduction & Advisory Teams
Brokerage firm Newedge, which is owned by Societe Generale, has announced three new hires.
OTAS Tech Enhances Portfolio Management Functionality, Looks to EMS Space & Sell Side for 2015
OTAS will also roll out out a new natural-language generation engine
OTAS Technologies Previews Move into Sell-Side and EMS Spaces, Preps OTAS Views
OTAS will also roll out out a new natural-language generation engine
Icap Bows End-of-Day Equity Derivatives Pricing Curves
Service will provide investment managers with valuation tools to conduct portfolio analysis and hedge risk.
Deutsche Börse to Disseminate African Bond Indexes, Pricing
Data will cover indexes and pricing from 12 African countries.