Published by: Global Trading | 24th March 2021 ETFs: Market Making and Trading Technology With Linda Middleditch, Chief of Product Strategy and Engineering, Itiviti Why are exchange-traded funds (ETFs) growing in popularity? ETFs globally have gone through an incredible growth phase over the past decade. The market has increased more than 700%, from below $1...
Category: FIX in the News
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FIXatdl: The New Frontier
Published by: Global Trading | 16th March 2021 FIXatdl: The New Frontier It’s been more than ten years since FIXatdl™ had its last upgrade. FIXatdl version 1.1 (released in 2010), achieved its main objective: standardizing the specification of algorithmic order types into a machine-readable XML format. Its scope covers pre-trade analytics, order build workflow, local...
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ESG in 2021
Post the Biden victory and now the release of updated European Sustainable Finance Disclosure regulation, capital markets are gearing up for the new mantra that “Green is Now Good”. This is the very concept discussed at FIX EMEA 2020 back in September – ESG is no longer a fringe concept but now an integral part...
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FIX Holiday Message and 2020 Recap
A holiday message from the FIX Trading Community and a recap of all of the work accomplished in 2020. Click here to view. FIX Initiatives can be found here. Contact the Program Office if you would like to participate!
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Industry Bodies Publish APAC Charter for Indication of Interest Issuers
Published by: Regulation Asia| 10th November 2020 ASIFMA, Quorum 15, Asia TraderForum, the FIX Trading Community and their members have established a consistent approach for issuing Indications of Interest. A collective of industry associations have together launched The Asia Pacific IOI Charter, providing guidance for all market participants who issue Indications of Interest (IOIs) and...
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The long journey to frictionless electronic trading
Published by: The Trade News|28th October 2020 By: Kevin Houstoun Having been instrumental in the development of the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) Protocol, chairman of Rapid Addition and director at FIX Protocol Ltd, Kevin Houstoun, provides a brief history of the industry’s messaging standard. Thinking about how integral FIX protocol has become to electronic trading,...
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Making Markets Transparent
Trading generates large amounts of data. To ensure the quality is on par with the quantity, the Swiss Stock Exchange is actively involved in data standardisation initiatives. One such initiative is the MMT – short for Market Model Typology – which facilitates compliance with MiFID trade flagging obligations. Industry efforts to promote common standards for...
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Imperfect Pitch – Exactpro – Leadership – Sibos 2020
This video was prepared for the Sibos 2020 Discover Perfect Pitch competition. We hope it might be useful for people genuinely interested in FinTech, software quality and reliability. This video focuses on some very real quality assurance controversies. It contains no political message, although we might have been inspired by several real public figures and...
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FIX EMEA Trading Conference – key takeaways
FIX EMEA Trading conference takeaways from Trader TV on Vimeo.
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Post COVID-19: What’s Next for ESG?
Published by: Global Trading|2nd September 2020 By Rebecca Healey, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee & EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community ESG is no longer a fringe concept. A year ago it was highlighted that more than 70% of investment firms had a commitment to incorporate ESG across all investment products – the rising pandemic along with...