London, New York, Hong Kong, 17 May 2021: The FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading and the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association (Global DCA), the global self-regulatory association for the digital asset & cryptocurrency industry, each recognize that their complementary efforts can be strategically combined to...
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Steven Kelly Receives ISITC Excellence Award
Published by: FTF News | Financial Technologies Forum | March 31, 2021 Steven Kelly Receives ISITC Excellence Award Industry standards trade group ISITC has selected Steven J. Kelly, CFA, to be the 2021 recipient of the ISITC Standard of Excellence Award for his accomplishments in developing standards and best practices for financial services operations. A...
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Call For Participation: Non-USD NDF Fixing Conventions Using FIX
A Call for Participation: Non-USD NDF Fixing Conventions Using FIX Aim: The lack of standardization of fixing conventions for non-USD NDFs has plagued voice trading for many years, adding operational risk that leads to market risk and potential losses. Therefore, the FIX Trading Community’s FICC (Fixed Income Currencies Commodities) Committee aims for the following goals: Standardize communication of the...
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ETFs: Market Making and Trading Technology
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...
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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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FIX Trading Community releases guidelines for Repo Transactions
London, New York, Hong Kong, 29 October 2020: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, announced today their publication of recommended practices for Trade and Post-Trade Bilateral and Tri-Party Repurchase Agreements (Repos). These recommended practices were produced to define industry practices for the common usage of FIX...