Emerging Technologies
2014 Review: Industry Finds Ways to Derive Value from the Crowd
New datasets created using crowd-sourcing continued to grow in 2014, with new players entering the market with propositions to solicit crowd-sourced investor predictions that could provide leading indicators of market movements to institutional traders.
2014 Review: Cloud Makes Crucial Gains, Despite FinQloud Exit
The financial data industry continued to pursue cloud adoption in 2014 to achieve IT cost efficiencies and manage rising volumes of data, despite one of the key financial cloud players pulling out of the business.
2014 Review: As Volumes Intensify, Data Search Tools Get Smart
According to Interactive Data’s chief information officer Alex Goor, speaking at Inside Market Data’s Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference, about 90 percent of current data levels were created within the last two years. In the financial sector,…
2014 Review: Herd in Review: Bloomberg’s Back, and So Are Other Data Vets
January: Norwegian vendor Infront named Urs Rutschmann chief operating officer. Rutschmann was previously COO of Swedish trading systems vendor Tbricks. Fidessa promoted Emily Thomas to global head of new business sales, and hired Phil Jeffrey—former…
DelphX Plans Expansion, Data on Quandl
Bond trading venue operator DelphX plans to expand its Mav=n (Market-Adjusted Value per congruent Nexus) pricing service, to provide users with fair value prices for SEC Rule 144A private placements, asset-backed and mortgage backed securities, and…
Opening Cross: Rudy the High-Speed Trader
Max presents a festive Christmas column for your entertainment
The Waters Weekly Wrap: December 8-12, 2014
A look at the best articles from the past week
Skepticism Builds for Chief Data, Analytics Officer Roles as CTOs, CIOs Dig In
CDO & CAO roles have been slow to develop on the buy side
4Cast Founder Park Sets up Consultancy
Rowland Park, founder of London-based real-time analysis and research vendor 4Cast, has left the company to set up a consulting firm, Park Horizon, focusing on providing strategic consulting services to startup software companies.
Another Reason to Like the Public Cloud? Talent Retention
At Waters USA 2014, Rob Krugman talked about choosing AWS.
Waters USA 2014: The Right Mindset on Cyber Infiltration
Focus needs to be on reacting, not stopping every threat
Liquidnet Launches Trade Advisory and Execution Solutions
New hires to deliver Liquidnet's next gen of execution services & quant trading strategies
BGC Further Extends GFI Offer Deadline
BGC Partners' determined efforts to acquire rival interdealer broker GFI Group continued last night, as the firm extended the deadline for its offer to January 6, 2015, the second time that it has done so.
SmartTrade Opens Singapore Office
SmartTrade has seen the need to increase its local presence due to growing demand for its solutions.
CJC Expands Managed Services Offering
Cleint demand for managed services drives CJC to build out development team
Waters USA Panel: Traders, Vendors Eye Convergence of Latency, Analytics
Panel says it's not just how fast you are, but what you can analyze that fast that counts
Public Cloud Gets Vote of Approval from Panelists at Waters USA
Finra's CIO says public clouds are more secure than traditional DCs
Options Takes Space in Equinix Tokyo Co-Lo Center
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has expanded into Equinix's TY3 datacenter in Tokyo to provide co-location services and access to global foreign exchange markets in response to increased customer demand.
Waters USA 2014 C-Level Panel: Measuring Tech's Cost—While It's Under Siege
Tech & ops chiefs say budget cuts, cyber threats to continue in 2015
Waters USA 2014: IEX Chief Strategy Officer: Our 'Magic Shoebox' Doesn't Make Us Anti-HFT
Ronan Ryan brings down the house at Waters USA
Redline Taps Chen to Drive Product Development
Former Broadridge, Thomson Financial exec joins ticker plant vendor
Cyber Monday for Financial Markets
Vendors go on a shopping spree.
Big Deals and Rouble Rousing
It's that time of year.
Opening Cross: Location, Location, Consolidation and Diversification
Today’s data industry certainly isn’t that of 25 years ago, or even a dozen years ago when I started writing about it. A key difference is the change in pace of modern markets, shifting to low-latency trading where location—i.e. proximity of trading…