Avelacom, the low latency connectivity, IT infrastructure and data solutions provider, has appointed Timothy Wong as VP of Sales for the APAC region. Wong joins from Xenith IG (formerly Superloop Asia) and brings over 15 years of experience working in data and network systems across sales, business development and technology.
In addition, the company has taken on new office space in Hong Kong to support its expansion in the region.
For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining infrastructure can take months and absorb significant budget before a single model is tested. At the...
By Ian Salmon, Head of Product Marketing, Adaptive. Exchange technology is back under strategic review, but not in the narrow sense of another performance upgrade cycle. Across the market, venue operators are reassessing the foundations of their platforms because the environment around them is becoming more demanding, more diverse and less predictable. For some, that...
Now in its 16th year, Data Management Summit (DMS) NYC returns on September 17th 2026, to explore how to use data and AI to drive measurable business outcomes – reliably, repeatedly and at scale.
The potential of a reference data utility model has been discussed for many years, and while early implementations failed to gain traction, the model has now come of age as financial institutions look for new data management models that can solve the challenges of operational cost reduction, improved data quality and regulatory compliance. The multi-tenanted...