The FIX Trading Community is pleased to announce the development of a number of different working groups under the FIX Trading Community...
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Digital Currency/Blockchain Working Group
The FIX Digital Currency/Blockchain working group was established to help industry participants navigate the issues and regulatory guidance associated with trading digital...
FIX Orchestra
FIX Orchestra was conceived as machine readable rules of engagement between counterparties. Orchestra is intended to cut time to onboard counterparties and...
FIX/FIF CAT Initiative
In an effort to address the SEC adopted Rule 613 which requires national securities exchanges and SROs to submit a Consolidated Audit...
GTC Blog
Read the GTC Blog for updates on the Global Technical Committee efforts, technical initiatives and technical standards development. Please click here to...
MMT
The Market Model Typology (MMT) was developed to provide data standardization across financial markets. The latest version of MMT delivers efficient operational...
FIX Trading Community: Shaping the Future of Trading
FIX in the News
Expanding FIX to Boost STP in the Post-Trade Arena
The Global Post Trade Working Group at FIX Trading Community is currently working to expand the use of the FIX messaging standard into new workflows and processes, namely broadening asset class coverage and enabling FIX to support workflows between asset managers, brokers and custodians. A lack of cross-industry standards allowing counterparties to collaborate has often frustrated attempts to improve efficiency...
Data Initiatives to Fuel Finance’s New Era of Experimentation
By Neena Dholani,Global Marketing Programme Director, FIX Trading Community “Age is no guarantee of efficiency—and youth is no guarantee of innovation.” So goes the conversation in Skyfall, the recent James Bond film, that finds Bond contemplating whether he’s still up to his job while meeting his new, much younger and more technologically-inclined quartermaster. It is a pivotal point, after which the...
FIX Plans Broader Asset Class Coverage and Move into Back-Office Trade Settlement
FIX is extending its reach with plans to broaden asset class coverage and introduce the FIX messaging protocol into back-office settlement workflows between both asset managers and custodians, and brokers and custodians. These developments are being overseen by the Global Post-Trade Working Group within the FIX Trading Community and are designed to standardise workflows and allow firms already invested in...
Cloud Goes Higher and Higher
“The year 2016 is to the cloud as 1996 was to the internet,” according to a speaker at the New York regional event of the FIX Trading Community, held at Thomson Reuters headquarters in Times Square on October 3. The comment underlines the strongly held opinion, expressed by all key speakers at the meeting, that cloud usage for data storage...
