Emerging Technologies
Opening Cross: Looking for Data (and Beer) in All the Right Places
Over the July 4 long weekend, I strolled around the new residential skyscrapers built along the Long Island City waterfront, and the redeveloped Gantry Plaza State Park overlooking the East River and the UN building. A few blocks inland, in a parking lot…
GLEIF Names Wolf As CEO
Stephan Wolf, a Frankfurt-based executive at Interactive Data, will leave that role to succeed interim CEO Gerard Hartsink at the legal entity identifier system infrastructure organization
Hitachi Data Systems, Informatica Ally on Legacy Platform Retirement
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), the storage, software and services subsidiary of Japanese technology conglomerate Hitachi, is partnering with data integration software provider Informatica to provide a technology platform abstraction and retirement service…
Liquidnet Hires Laible as Head of Global Performance
Liquidnet has announced the appointment of Rob Laible as head of its global performance team.
EBS Reshuffles Senior Management
Interbank foreign-exchange (FX) platform EBS has released details of changes in personnel, with the current senior leadership below CEO Gil Mandelzis leaving the Icap-owned firm.
Parsing Fintech's Whimsical Name Game
Tim muses on a subject—company names—that has confounded him for most of his time covering financial technology. Does a strange moniker make a difference?
TPI Enlists Matriks as Turkish Data Distributor
Turkish data vendor Matriks Bilgi Dagitim Hizmetleri has signed a deal with Tullett Prebon Information (TPI), the data arm of interdealer broker Tullett Prebon, to distribute TPI's over-the-counter prices on global commodities to its client base of…
Bloomberg Acquires RTS RealTime Systems
Bloomberg has acquired low-latency connectivity and trading support provider RTS RealTime Systems to expand its exchange connectivity through RTS’ existing global network of datacenters.
ITRS Names Former FTSE Exec Warren CEO
ITRS Group, a London-based provider of real-time systems monitoring and management technology, has hired Guy Warren as chief executive, replacing Kevin Covington, who will continue to serve as a senior advisor to ITRS after more than five years as CEO.
ITRS Names Warren CEO
Guy Warren has been named CEO of ITRS Group, a provider of performance monitoring and management technology. He replaces Kevin Covington, who will remain as a senior adviser to ITRS.
MDX Tech Taps CFSI as Canadian Agent
UK market data connectivity supplier MDX Technology has appointed Toronto-based consulting services startup Collaborative Financial Services Inc (CFSI) as its sole agent in Canada, as part of its ongoing expansion into North America.
Abacus Rolls Out File Transfer Solution for Buy-Side Firms
Abacus Group has launched a new service designed to help hedge funds and private equity firms to automate routine file transfers.
StatPro Gives Asset Managers Access to Nasdaq Index Data on Revolution
Portfolio data and analytics software vendor StatPro is to make more than 41,000 indexes in the Nasdaq Global Index Family available to asset managers via its cloud-based Revolution analytics desktop platform, as a result of joining Nasdaq OMX's Elite…
Former HP Intellectual Property Chief: Looking After IP Demands Creativity, Before Litigation
From the smallest startup to the largest financial institution, protecting the intellectual property (IP) that drives technology has become a more complicated—but also, potentially more profitable—process.
Credit Benchmark Raises $7M, Unveils Consensus Ratings Service
London-based Credit Benchmark, a startup provider of consensus credit rating data, has raised $7 million to support the ongoing production rollout of its data service by funding new hires and the opening of a new office in New York.
SGX Moves Forward with HKEx Partnership, Opens Local Derivatives Office
The Singapore Exchange has opened its "liquidity hub" point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's datacenter-the first step in a series of moves to facilitate closer cooperation between the exchanges, including setting up PoPs in each…
SGX Unveils PoP at HKEx, Opens Local Derivatives Office
The Singapore Exchange has opened its "liquidity hub" point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing's datacenter--the first step in a series of moves to facilitate closer cooperation between the exchanges, including setting up PoPs in each…
Tryd Partners Cellbroker, SolutionTech Tap Perseus LiquidPath
Cellbroker, a Brazilian provider of mobile trading solutions for stocks, commodities and currencies, and Rio de Janeiro-based trading technology platform vendor SolutionTech have rolled out low-latency fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom…
NovaSparks, Thesys Ally for Accelerated Data
French FPGA feed handler and data platform provider NovaSparks and New York-based Thesys Technologies, a provider of low-latency data, trading and risk solutions have integrated their offerings so mutual clients can apply the performance gains of…
Dow Jones' Smith to Head B2B Professional Products
Dow Jones has appointed New York-based Dan Smith head of the vendor's Professional Information Business product team, which covers its DJX terminal, Risk & Compliance offering, Dow Jones Newswires and Factiva.
Open Platform: The ‘Hidden Tax’ of Index Data
As index use has grown, so have the ways in which entrenched index providers are extracting revenues from licensing their indexes and underlying data. But with cost still a key concern, with the popularity of exchange-traded funds growing, and with…
Opening Cross: Declare Your Independence from Traditional Data Uses
While the majority of Inside Market Data’s coverage has traditionally centered around the use of data to directly support trading activities—such as the transmission of prices via datafeeds or terminal displays to traders and trading applications—and…
IEX Mulls Public Exchange Options
IEX, the start-up trading venue founded by former RBC trader, Brad Katsuyama, wants to institutionalize fairness and curb predatory trading by eliminating the speed advantage that high-frequency trading (HFT) firms have over smaller institutional…
Barclays Africa Goes Live on EquiLend
Johannesburg-based Absa Bank, a subsidiary of Barclays Africa, has become South Africa’s first domestic bank to execute a securities finance trade on the EquiLend trading platform. The move marks a progression toward the automation of Absa’s trading and…