Author: FIXTrading Community (FIXTrading Community)

The Americas Trading Conference 2025, hosted by FIX Trading Community, returns to @Ease 605 in New York City this fall for a full day of market insight, industry discussion, and networking. Taking place on Thursday, October 30th, the event will bring together leading voices from across the trading ecosystem to address key issues shaping the global markets. Read More

The FIX Trading Community, the global industry association that maintains the FIX Protocol, is joining forces with the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and the wider bond trading ecosystem to tackle long-standing inefficiencies in how “axes” — trader indications of buying or selling interest — are used and distributed across fixed income markets. Read More

The FIX Fixed Income Axe Standards Working Group is leading an initiative to improve the quality of axes in bond trading, in partnership with the International Capital Market Association (ICMA)   Read more

The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has committed to working with the global bond trading community and the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) to improve the efficiency and quality of bond trading. Read more

14 October, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has committed to working with the global bond trading community and the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) to improve the efficiency and quality of bond trading. The joint effort, spearheaded by the FIX Fixed Income...

The FIX Trading Community has called on the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to take decisive action in improving post-trade transparency as part of its Consultation Paper CP25/20. The consultation, focused on the systematic internaliser (SI) regime for bonds and derivatives and accompanied by a discussion paper on equity markets, has prompted FIX to highlight...

The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has called for greater post-trade transparency in its response to the Financial Conduct Authority’s Consultation Paper CP25/20: The SI regime for bonds and derivatives including discussion paper on equity markets. FIX Executive Director, Jim Kaye, said the discussion paper section was...

The FIX Trading Community has responded to the FCA’s consultation paper on the SI regime for bonds and derivatives, calling for legacy issues to be addressed to improve post-trade transparency. The FCA’s paper focuses on the SI regime for bonds and derivatives, with questions on equity markets included to inform an upcoming 2026 consultation on...

Voluntary trade flags developed by the FIX Trading Community haven’t seen the take-up that the group hoped, members told Global Trading, with UK-EU reporting consistency held back by a lack of investment in non-obligatory changes. Ahead of the consolidated tapes (CT) being introduced in the UK and Europe, FIX has released a fifth iteration of...