We would like to wish you all happy holidays and season greetings from the FIX Global Technical Committee leadership. The main FIX holiday mailing listed the accomplishments of the Global Technical Committee (“GTC”), so we have chosen to look forward to 2018. May your stockings be full of MiFID II Compliance using the enhancements to...
Month: December 2017
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Simple Binary Encoding for high performance market data interfaces – Automated Trader article
The FIX Trading Community realised that its message encoding was no longer fit-for-purpose for high-performance trading. It came up with the Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) standard to balance the needs of latency versus bandwidth utilisation. We look at how the market data interfaces at the CME Group were implemented with SBE. Nowadays, a large proportion...
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New Extension Packs published for MiFID II enhancements
In our continuous efforts to enhance the FIX standard to support MiFID II, EP237 (MiFID II and MiFIR Extensions Part 4) and EP238 (ESMA RTS 2 Segmentation Criteria) have been officially published to the Extension Pack page. Additionally EP239 (AllocationInstructionAlertRequest Proposal) has also been published, introducing a new FIX message type. FIXimate is updated to...
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Historical discussion posts available now
The migration of historical discussion topics going back to 2004 is now available on our Forum page. These old topics can be responded to, searched, etc., just like any of the new posts.
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MiFID II Opportunity For Buyside Dealers – Markets Media article
Huw Gronow, head of dealing at Newton Investment Management and co-chair of FIX Trading Community’s EMEA investment management subcommittee, said new regulations in the European Union offer a good opportunity for buyside dealing desks to add value to the investment process through using execution data. Gronow spoke on a panel last week at the London...
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FIX Industry Panel: Tech Versatility Must Rise with MiFID II, CAT’s Wild Arrival – Traders Magazine article
This winter’s regional FIX Trading Community briefing, hosted by Morgan Stanley in New York, brought out veteran technology experts and raised fresh questions as the industry stares down twin-barreled trade reporting mandates on both sides of the Atlantic—with MiFID II’s imminent January 3, 2018 go-live date, and deepening drama behind a missed November 15milepost for...