Emerging Technologies
Macrobond Bolsters EMEA Sales Team
Swedish time-series data and analytics vendor Macrobond Financial has promoted Jacob Johannesson to head of sales in EMEA. Johannesson held his previous role as product specialist and international account manager for over three years, prior to which he…
Moody's Brings in S&P's Burleigh
Damian Burleigh recently left his role as managing director of S&P Capital IQ for EMEA in London to join Moody's Analytics, the data and software arm of rival ratings agency Moody's as senior director of sales and client services.
Deutsche Börse Acquires GMEX Group Stake
Deutsche Börse has acquired a minority stake in Global Markets Exchange (GMEX) Group International, both parties announced today.
TS-A Integrates Solarflare for ‘Virtual' Monitoring Appliances
London-based latency monitoring and instrumentation provider TS-Associates has integrated Irvine, Calif.-based data and networking technology vendor Solarflare's Flareon server input/output adapters and its SolarCapture packet capture technology with TS…
Omgeo Pairs with TriOptima, AcadiaSoft for Collateral Management
Industry utility Omgeo announced that it is teaming with TriOptima to beef up its derivative reconciliations capabilities, and with AcadiaSoft for its margin affirmation communication solution.
Goldman Adds Ian Smith to Head GSET in APAC
Goldman Sachs has hired Ian Smith as head of GS Electronic Trading (GEST) for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
Constrained by Capital Requirements, Wealth Management IT Struggles to Comply
Wealth managers and private banks, the heirs of aging technologies and manual processes, need to change. Prodded by regulators to deploy more efficient and flexible operating infrastructures, most of them have been left with big gaps to fill and…
DataContent's Harris Talks China at WFIC Part 1
Following a panel discussion on business inside China at the World Financial Information Conference in Lisbon, Keiren Harris, Hong Kong-based director of market data consultancy DataContent speaks to IMD about the challenges and opportunities in the…
UK Competition Body Clears EuroCCP, EMCF Merger
The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has given a green light to the proposed merger between EuroCCP and EMCF, allowing the two firms to proceed to the next stage in their combination.
Markit's Johnson Explains Collaboration Services
Heidi Johnson, managing director of Markit Collaboration Services and Markit Library talks to Inside Market Data at FISD's recent World Financial Information Conference in Lisbon about the vendor's new chat initiative which seeks to bring open…
Blowback from the Rush to BYOD
UBS Global Asset Management has nearly gone through a full bring-your-own-device (BYOD) lifecycle already. It introduced the program almost by accident, after what was supposed to be a limited pilot with a couple of interns. Word spread, employees…
SIX Financial Information ‘Sharpens' US Sales with Brinker, Brodhead
SIX Financial Information, the data vendor business of Swiss exchange and clearing parent organization SIX Group, has reorganized its US sales function with the appointments of a new senior sales manager and a new head of solutions sales to replace…
SIX Welcomes New Senior US Sales Execs
Warren Brinker joins as senior sales manager and Keith Brodhead joins as head of solutions sales at SIX Financial Information
IDC's Sargeant Reflects on WFIC Future Industry Trends Panel
Roger Sargeant, managing director for Europe at Interactive Data discusses the future of technology and market data, following a panel discussion at the World Financial Information Conference in Lisbon.
Ex-UBS CTO Founds Cloud Startup
Andy Brown, former group chief technology officer at UBS, has left the Swiss bank to set up Street Scale IT Group, a company that will focus on bringing IT economies of scale around datacenters and cloud hosting to regulated industries, starting with…
In 2014, CTOs to Balance Expectations, Budgets and Security; Answer BYOD Demand
To close out the CTO panel at the Buy-Side Technology North America Summit, the CTOs were asked to give predictions for 2014. Here’s how they answered.
Vendor Relationships are Changing, Say CTOs
The pace of technology change has increased such that Fidelity Investments is reconsidering the length of its enterprise license agreements (ELAs) with vendors, CTO Mihir Shah revealed during a conversation about vendor relationships at the Buy-Side…
Kemp Little Launches Sourcing, Data Consultancy
London-based law firm Kemp Little, whose practice areas include market data contract structuring and negotiation, has launched a consultancy arm headed by two consulting veterans, to expand the firm's range of services beyond legal advice.
SpryWare, Embium Ally for Auto Trading
Chicago-based low-latency ticker plant and feed handler technology vendor SpryWare has partnered with Embium, a provider of automated trading platforms, enabling SpryWare clients to easily connect to platforms that allow them to develop automated trading…
Tom Jordan Discusses WFIC and Lifetime Achievement Award
Tom Jordan, recipient of the 2013 FISD Lifetime Achievement Award discusses his accolade as well as other trends at this year's World Financial Information Conference
BST North American Summit 2013: Capital Markets Tech Isn't Cool Anymore
“When I started my career, being in the financial services industry was the place to be. What happened?” With those words, Lord Abbett's head of IT operations, Nathan Boylan, summed up a rather raw opening segment to the mobility panel at the Buy-Side…
BST North American Summit 2013 CTO Panel: Tell the Business What You're Building, But Don't Let Them Buy the Drills
How many of you have cluttered garages, Jeff Hurley, CTO at the $188 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, asked the audience at the recent New York-hosted Buy-Side Technology North American Summit.
Eka Software Gets Boost with Silver Lake Kraftwerk Investment
The Bangalore-based platform provider for commodities trading has received a strategic investment from $20 billion private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, as part of the technology investor's growth capital Kraftwerk fund.