MDX Technology, a provider of real-time market data connectivity, celebrated its first birthday this summer with the announcement of client wins in New York, London and Singapore, growing interest from hedge funds and tier one banks in its flagship product MDXT Connect, and plans to further develop the solution.
A quiet break in Perigord Vert, just an hour or so inland from Bordeaux, was transformed into a blizzard of electronic messaging by the ‘shock’ departure of Devin Wenig, CEO of Thomson Reuters Markets, two weeks ago. Missives from the far reaches of the Delaney Network – via email, text, Linked-In, Facebook and Twitter – poured into my iPhone, my only contact with the outside world.
In yet another shock departure from data giant Thomson Reuters over the last few months (check out the departure of ex-Markets CFO Matthew Burkley 
Matthew Burkley, CFO of the Sales & Trading unit, will leave Thomson Reuters Markets at the end of July, ostensibly for family reasons. His destination is not known, although it’s understood that he will be taking a post at a smaller company.
The revolving door at data giant Thomson Reuters continues to spin unabated (see commentary on the recent slew of people moves 
It’s been quite a week for market data personnel changes, what with Thomson Reuters’ appointment of a new head of its Sales & Trading group, and its naming of Mike Powell to take over as head of content over in the Enterprise group. Next, it seems, is the turn of the brokers. And I don’t mean traders, I mean brokers, interdealer brokers, and their highly lucrative market data groups. 
Filling a longstanding void at the top of its Sales & Trading business unit, Thomson Reuters has named former IBM general manager for banking and financial markets Shanker Ramamurthy as president, Sales & Trading, effective June 20. The top slot at Thomson Reuters’ largest operating unit, with revenues of $3.5 billion and 2,700 staff, had been open since the departure of Mark Redwood almost a year ago (see more 
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More fall-out, it seems, from the ongoing restructuring at Thomson Reuters in the wake of former Markets head Devin Wenig’s resignation in the summer, this time within the Enterprise group. Enterprise chief Jon Robson this week announced the departures of enterprise data management head Sally Hinds and trade and risk chief Andy White, with their responsibilities to be taken over, respectively, by Terry Roche and Bernie Battista, the latter on an interim basis.
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