Emerging Technologies
SR Labs Taps Lava Founder for CEO, Post-Wombat Buy
New York-based low-latency data platform and feed handler provider SR Labs has appointed veteran technology industry executive Richard Korhammer as chief executive, following its recent acquisition of the Wombat data platform business from…
What Fintech’s Women Want
Tim reflects on an important but somehow still under-scrutinized problem discussed by this month’s Waters profile subject Dayna Corlito. When it comes to women in financial technology leadership, how can the industry change one reality, while facing up…
Saxo Appoints Ex-FOA CEO
Saxo Capital Markets UK has announced that Anthony Belchambers, former CEO of the Futures and Options Associations (FOA) will join the firm as a non-executive director.
Interactive Data Lures Vendor Vets Babarinde, Burtsal for EMEA Sales
Interactive Data has hired data industry veterans Olakunle Babarinde and Richard Burtsal as head of sales for real-time feeds and 7Ticks EMEA, and sales manager for trading solutions, respectively.
Corlito's Way: BTG Pactual COO Dayna Corlito
Thousands of miles from Copacabana Beach, BTG Pactual is doing things a once-small banking partnership from an emerging market shouldn’t be able to—managing a diverse group of admired hedge funds. Yes, the firm’s successful foray into asset management…
State Street Appoints Keogh Head of Alternative Investment Solutions for APAC
State Street Corporation has appointed Bob Keogh as its head of Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) for Asia Pacific on the back of rising demand for alternative investment servicing in the region.
Asset Control Finds its Feet in Singapore
Asset Control's consolidation of its offices in the Asia-Pacific region is generating positive feedback from clients, according to Franck Peltier, MD of the New York-based data management technology and services provider.
Deutsche Bank Appoints Massion as Japan GTB Chief
Deutsche Bank has appointed Peter Massion as its head of global transaction banking (GTB) and head of trade finance and cash management corporates (CMC) in Japan.
Michael Shashoua: Figures, Guts and Glory
Diving deep into fantasy football yields insights on the need to balance strict adherence to quantitative data with room for interpretation and inclusion of qualitative information. Michael shares some examples from the football world and how they apply…
Max Bowie: Are You Getting the Message?
Instant messaging conversations to share information and negotiate trades are a staple of the modern trader’s workflow. But with recent events leaving market participants wary of messaging platforms, Max wonders whether firms examining new initiatives,…
James Rundle: Reporting for Duty
While Europe is forging ahead with its new reporting requirements, James says that problems with the basic elements are rendering it unfit for purpose.
Opening Cross: You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks... But New Tricks Still Need Old Dogs
It takes a certain blend of skills to combine the experience that comes with age and the dynamism of youth. For eternity, mankind has tried both to put old heads on young shoulders, and find ways to teach old dogs new tricks and recapture the energy and…
AlphaSense Taps Trio of Sales Execs
San Francisco-based AlphaSense, a provider of a financial search engine for indexing and extracting structured and unstructured data from corporate documents and filings, has bolstered its sales team with several recent hires to meet increased client…
Dagens Industri Taps Finwire for Swedish News, ‘Social' Content
Swedish daily financial news site and newspaper Dagens Industri has signed an agreement with Swedish news provider Finwire to distribute the vendor's small-cap Swedish company news and curated content from social media streams about global events,…
BlackRock's Aladdin: More Powerful Than Politics?
Bold, hyperbolic statements about technology are commonplace in 2014, whether reveling in its potential or damning its influence. Tim examines one such argument that takes the latter bent, relating to BlackRock's massive Aladdin platform.
Mergent Adds Barchart Commodity Yearbook to Historical Document Archive
Chicago-based data vendor Barchart's Commodity Research Bureau division has made the 75-year archive of its CRB Commodity Yearbook available via company data provider Mergent's Mergent Archives, an online database of more than 180,000 indexed corporate…
Thomson Reuters Wins Taipei IBOR Benchmark Calculation Role
The Taipei Foreign Exchange Market Development Foundation has named Thomson Reuters the calculation agent for its CNT TAIBOR offshore renminbi benchmark, the Taipei Interbank Offered Rate.
Dalglish to Head SmartStream’s Transformation Services
SmartStream Technologies has announced the appointment of Tom Dalglish as a senior vice president and global head of transformation services.
FBI Investigating Cyber Attacks on US Banks
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is working with the Secret Service, in order to investigate recent cyber attacks on American banks.
Datawatch Refocuses on ‘Operational Analysis' of Streaming Data, New Sources
Chelmsford, Mass.-based data management software developer Datawatch has re-launched itself as a provider of visual data discovery technology following its acquisition last year of Swedish visual data analytics provider Panopticon, and is now focusing on…
Statistical Data Products Vet Goldberg Climbs at CBOE
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has promoted 34-year CBOE veteran Alicia Goldberg to vice president of statistical analysis.
With Swap Volumes Slacking, Tech to Serve as SEFs' Differentiator
As the new world of SEF clearing starts to shape, TrueEX's Sunil Hirani says that smaller venues will have differentiate themselves against the larger players by being better at second-order functions.
Little Boxes
One of the big perks of this job is the amount of people that you get to meet and speak to, all over the world. A case in point was talking to the president of the Taiwan Stock Exchange this morning, last week it was a conversation with a technology…
Former CFTC Commissioner Chilton to Advise HFT Lobbying Firm
Bart Chilton, one of the commission's most vocal opponents of high-frequency trading (HFT) during his time with the regulator, will now serve as an advisor to Modern Markets Initiative (MMI), a group which advocates on behalf of and is backed by a…