Press Releases

Laurence Jones FIX Americas Regional Director FIX recently attended the Canadian Annual Derivatives Conference, Canada’s leading derivatives conference which is a 1-day event held in Montreal, Canada. Hosted by TMX, the event had an agenda full of industry-relevant topics covering trading & execution, digital assets, regulatory drivers as well as changes to interest rates in the Canadian market. Add in...

The FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, is pleased to announce the launch of Orchestra Server as a benefit to its members. Orchestra Server allows users to create documentation for their messaging interfaces (‘rules of engagement’) based on FIX’s Orchestra standard. The system, based on the ETP S-Box service from Esprow,...

Proposals from regulators around the globe to shorten settlement timeframes for securities continue to evolve. Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a proposed rule change to move to T+1. The Canadian Capital Markets Association (CCMA) also announced their intent to move to T+1, and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) introduced an optional T+1 cycle...

We are delighted to welcome Jessica Morrison, Group Head of Sales Strategy & Execution (Trading Solutions) at LSEG as co-chair of our Global Steering Committee. Jess comes with significant experience of the FIX Trading Community, having been Asia-Pacific co-chair previously. She also carries a wealth of industry knowledge with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She joins Lee...

India’s phased transition to T+1 settlement is now starting to affect securities traded by international investors. The FIX Protocol can be used to share fund information at time of trade, to streamline the allocation and settlement matching process. A key deadline in the India settlement process is at 7pm on T0 when all trade allocations need to be confirmed between...

The Office of Financial Research (OFR) has added relevant parts of the FIX Protocol to its Financial Instrument Reference Database (FIRD). The FIRD, a Dodd-Frank Act requirement, helps to identify where reference data is standardized and where there are inconsistencies. The FIRD now uses data standards – ISO 20022, ACTUS Financial Research Foundation’s data dictionary and FIX – to provide...

  The FIX Trading Community is pleased to highlight new recommendations on how firms can communicate a BCAN (Broker-to-Client Assigned Number) using standard FIX fields for the Hong Kong ID regime, and an enhanced definition of the FIX user-defined field BCANID(8018). BCANID(8018) Recommended Practices: BCAN ID using FIX for HKIDR This relates to the requirement for orders (or off exchange trade...

London, New York, Hong Kong, June 15, 2022: The FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announces  that two components of the FIX messaging suite are now ISO standards: ISO 3531-1: FIX TagValue Encoding (https://www.iso.org/standard/81510.html) ISO 3531-2: FIX Session Layer (https://www.iso.org/standard/81511.html) The FIX TagValue Encoding and Session Layer standards have served as...

The FIX Trading Community has started a public consultation on proposed changes to the FIX Protocol to support the trading of digital assets. These changes leverage existing trading models for other asset classes such as FX and equities, and are intended to provide a common messaging standard for trading this important class of assets. The public consultation runs until June...

After a 3-year break due to the pandemic, the FIX Trading Community is delighted to publish the agenda for the Nordic Trading Briefing 2022.

The FIX Global Technical Committee (GTC) announces the availability of Playlist Version 1.0.1, fixing some errors detected in Version 1.0. Please see here for details.