The FIX Trading Community have today announced two important organisational changes to the FIX Trading Community Program Office. With the appointment of Jim Kaye and Laurence Jones as Executive Director and Regional Director (Americas) respectively. Jim Kaye has been appointed Executive Director with responsibility for all FIX staff, marketing, communications, sales and the day to...
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Best execution post-RTS 27: Building consensus in the industry
REGULATIONĀ December 23, 2021 12:03 PM GMT The removal of RTS 27 execution reports does not negate the importance of best execution, and with the expected regulatory divergence between the UK and EU markets, greater collaboration among market participants to agree on standards is of paramount importance. ByĀ Charlotte Decuyper With greater divergence between EU and UK...
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The Industry Asksā¦ Quickfire Questions On FIX Latest Standard
With Emma Quinn, Global Co-Head of Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein, and Hanno Klein, FIX Technical Director As part of series of articles by members of the FIX Trading Community, AllianceBernsteinās Global Co-Head of Equity Trading, (and Chair of the FIX Trading Communityās Board of Directors), Emma Quinn, quizzes FIX Technical Director, Hanno Klein, on just what...
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Fixed income: Bond trade efficiency potentially stalled by regulators
Posted by: Best Execution,Ā November 10, 2021 Regulators could stymie the only consensus model for firm pricing in fixed income, a market short of transparency. Dan Barnes reports. Regulators may throw a spanner in the works of bond trading automation, by including desktop trading tools within the definition of regulated trading venue. A ruling by the...
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Why Being a FIX Trading Community Member Matters
Why Being a FIX Trading Community Member Matters ā And Why You Should Contribute By Rich Evans, Global Co-chair of FIX Trading Community, and Lee Saba, Global Co-chair of FIX Trading Community and Head of Market Structure, Rialto Markets In an era of focus on good governance, every firmās contribution to the FIX community matters...
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Next Generation of FIXimate available
FIXimate stands for FIX Interactive Message and Tag Explorer and is the visualization tool for the FIX Repository, which contains the meta-data for the FIX application and session layer. Introduction FIXimate makes the FIX Repository easily accessible and serves as a quick reference to lookup information about FIX messages, components, fields and values. FIXimate has...
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Crackdown by regulators aims to protect investors entering a more digital world
Published by: MondoVisione 31/08/2021 A US Government crackdown on unregulated digital exchanges and stablecoins has long been on the cards, according to broker dealer and pioneering secondary market ATS operatorĀ Rialto Markets. But rather than trying to kill off this emerging sector, Rialto Marketsā Head of Market Structure Lee E Saba expects and welcomes an...
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FIX – Realising the potential of algo wheels
Published by: Traders Magazine 30th July 2021 Even though algo wheels have been around for five years and their adoption is now near universal, few are using them beyond the simplest of use cases, such as managing commission wallets or dealing with ānuisanceā orders. The slow path to realizing the full potential of algo wheels...
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Log2Orchestra available to FIX members
The FIX Global Technical Committee (GTC) is proud to announce the availability of Log2Orchestra. If you are a FIX member, you can request access from the FIX Program Office. It can then be invoked either via its own URLĀ or through the FIX website (“Log2Orchestra” in the new dropdown menu “Tools” or from the Orchestra landing...
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Update on routing transparency initiative
Published By : Traders Magazine | 2nd June 2021 With Enrico Cacciatore, Head of Market Structure & Trading Analytics, Voya Investment Management, and Tim Sargent, CEO, CalcGuard Technologies What have been some challenges as the Routing Transparency Initiative (RTI) has moved forward? ENRICO CACCIATORE: The biggest challenge for RTI is the inherent lack of standardized...