Financial Market Data Web Services – Xignite Blog

This is my favorite time of year.  Snow, Christmas lights, family, friends, parties . . . Ahh, the holiday season is officially upon us.  One of my absolute favorite aspects of the holidays is sharing warm wishes and good times with friends, family, co-workers and strangers alike.

Last week, we shared some of that holiday cheer at the Xignite Meetup in NYC.  It was a perfect event, with over 40 customers, supporters and friends braving the cold to come out and enjoy drinks, darts and good times with some of the crew from Xignite.  We would like to thank everyone that came out to celebrate the season with us.  I have posted a small photo gallery of the meetup for your viewing pleasure (iPhone quality).  Also, a special thanks to the crew at Stout NYC, a great place to host a Social Meetup. Read more

I really liked how Max Bowie characterized Xignite as “disruptive” in a piece he published in Inside Market Data earlier this week, entitled “Appetite for Disruption.” He was covering our latest release of equity options web services XigniteOptions and XigniteRealTimeOptions, but his “disruptive” moniker couldn’t be more appropriate for all of Xignite as a company.

He dubbed us as “disruptive” because our equity options services changed the economics of getting options data so much that customers like iVerit are now able to create new businesses delivering this high-volume, high-expense market data at rates affordable even to small private investors over small, affordable devices like the iPhone.

But the truth is that virtually every time we launch a new web service, we see this pattern of disruptive technology creating new opportunities to penetrate existing markets much more deeply. That’s because it’s the on-demand delivery model itself, not any particular web service, that creates the order-of-magnitude changes in economics that cause disruption and new opportunities to deepen existing markets.

So thanks to Max for giving us a rep as a high-tech company running amok causing market depth and disruption wherever we go.

With 2010 quickly approaching, we wanted to celebrate the holidays with our friends & partners in the NYC Area. Join the Xignite crew for some good food, great drinks and special holiday gifts.

Hang-out with Xignite CEO Stephane Dubois and a handful of other Xignite’rs at Stout NYC, Thursday December 17th from 5:30p to 7:30p. We will be located in the Dart Alley Area of Stout’s Cellar.

While everyone that attends will be hooked up with the latest Xignite gear (shirts, USB’s, shot glasses, etc.), the first ten people to arrive will receive a very special gift pack, worth $50 each. We look forward to enjoying great food, cold beers and a quick dart shootout with our friends & partners in NYC.