Ian Hillier-Brook, director of MIS at MoneyLine Telerate, has left the company, which he joined in April last year when MoneyLine acquired Market Information Services, a specialist in time-series database technologies that he had founded six years ago.
Hillier-Brook is now working on establishing a new venture aimed at providing marketing and management services to U.S. financial technology companies looking to expand in the European markets.
In a highly competitive trading environment with little room for manoeuvre, financial institutions are looking to move on from legacy data infrastructure and build proprietary high-speed, low-latency trading systems offering agility, accelerated time-to-market, and potentially, competitive advantage. This is a sizeable undertaking and a shift from dependence on third-party trading services and solutions that has...
FactSet is delivering on its aim to serve the portfolio lifecycle through acquisition, partnership, integration and a focus on providing clients with a choice of modular solutions. Previewing the year ahead, its plans include continued integration and enhancement of acquisitions Portware, Cymba and Vermilion, support for compliance with regulations including Markets in Financial Instruments Directive...
Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.
The highly specialised realm of high frequency trading without doubt is a great driver for a range of high performance technologies that are becoming essential tools for Wall Street. More so than the now somewhat pedestrian algorithmic trading and analytics/pricing applications that are usually cited as the reason that HPC is hitting the financial markets,...