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BT Launches Expanded Intelligence Product to Fight Cyber Attacks
New service to help organisations combat cyber threats
Covington Joins M&A Consultants BLC Advisors
Veteran exec Covington has 28 years of experience in the banking and financial technology industries.
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…
BT Launches Netrix HiTouch Data-Voice Integrated Turret in Asia
Telecommunications and trading turret provider BT has rolled out its BT Netrix HiTouch cloud-integrated touch-screen device──which combines voice and collaboration services with integration of market and risk data and in-house communications──in Asia,…
Buy-Side Technology Awards 2014: Best Cloud Provider to the Buy Side—BT
BT Group returns to the winners’ circle in the Buy-Side Technology Awards this year with its Radianz platform, reinforcing its preeminent position in the cloud space by complementing its wins in both the 2014 Waters Rankings and the 2014 Sell-Side…
APFIC 2014: Regulation, Flexibility, Legacy Upgrades Drive Managed Services
Regulation and flexibility are the key drivers for the uptake in managed services globally according to a panel of managed services providers, at this week's Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference in Hong Kong.
Metamako Taps Covington to Drive European Expansion
Metamako, an Australian provider of low-latency switch appliances for high-frequency trading, has enlisted data industry veteran Kevin Covington to set up a European infrastructure to support an expansion of its business into the region.
Slow Burn: SEFs Make Small Gains as US Market Adjusts to Electronic Trading
In February, it became mandatory to execute certain swap contracts on electronic platforms, introducing what should have been wholesale change to the way that trading operates in the derivatives market. Half a year on, though, evidence of a revolution in…
Waters Rankings 2014: Best Cloud Infrastructure Provider — BT
It took a while for the cloud to percolate through the collective filter of the financial services industry. Treated with suspicion at first, the idea eventually refined itself through discussion and application into a workable model for many firms, but…
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.
IMD Awards Show Increasingly Competitive Vendor Landscape; Bloomberg Leads with Five Wins
Bloomberg scooped five categories at the Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards on the evening of Wednesday, May 21, though the battle for second and third place in the tally was more competitive, with several vendors winning multiple awards.
Under Attack: Is Real-Time Data Safe from Hackers?
With recent data breaches such as US retailer Target falling victim to point-of-sale customer data theft and AOL email passwords being compromised grabbing the headlines, it's easy to understand why consumers are paranoid about data privacy. With the…
Infinigon Taps Watkins to Grow Sales
New York-based Infinigon Group, a provider of social media analytics aimed at traders and risk managers set up by Belzberg Technologies founders Alicia and Sid Belzberg, has hired Dan Watkins as head of global sales and marketing.
Infrastructure Provider Adapt Appoints CCO, Sales and Marketing Director
UK-based managed infrastructure and co-location services provider Adapt has appointed Tom Needs as chief commercial officer and Scotty Morgan as sales and marketing director.
BT Launches HiTouch Turret
Telecommunications and trading turret provider BT has launched a cloud-integrated touch-screen device during the TradeTech conference taking place in Paris.
MarketPrizm Taps BT Vet Man for Asia Sales
Veteran data and financial network executive Richard Man joined Colt-owned trading and data infrastructure provider MarketPrizm in March as head of sales for the Asia-Pacific region.
Work in Progress
Big data has become a familiar topic in the financial information industry, but what success have firms had in implementing technology to derive value from the increasing volumes of structured and unstructured data being generated, asks Nicholas Hamilton
Pickles Leaves BT, Sets Up Independently
Chris Pickles has left BT and plans to work as an independent consultant specializing in mobility, security, identity management and regulatory compliance, among other functions
BT Nabs MarketPrizm CEO Randery
Network and telecoms provider BT has appointed Tanuja Randery president of strategy and marketing at BT Global Services, responsible for driving the growth of the division.
BT Hires MarketPrizm CEO
Tanuja Randery, CEO at MarketPrizm, has left the Colt subsidiary to take up the post of president, strategy and marketing, at BT Global Services.
Pulling Weeds: Sell Side Confronts Technology Stack Upgrades
Despite the current era in the capital markets as one of tight budgets, firms across the sell side are waking up to the fact that radical changes are needed to their technology stacks. From banks, to brokers and exchanges, questions remain around how…
BT's Cooper on Gaining Benefits from Big Data
Michael Cooper, CTO, Radianz, at BT Global Banking and Financial Markets, BT, explains how financial firms and vendors are harnessing the potential of big data, at the World Financial Information Conference hosted by the Financial Information Services…
Volta London Datacenter Opens its Doors
Datacenter operator Volta Data Centres will today officially open its new facility on Great Sutton Street in London, following a year-long project to refurbish the former Reuters building.
BT Partners with Truphone for US Mobile Recording
Network and telecoms provider BT has joined forces with global mobile operator Truphone, to deliver a communications recording service in line with Dodd-Frank Act provisions.