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FIX Session Protocol submitted to ISO
The FIX Global Technical Committee (GTC) is pleased to announce the submission of the FIX tagvalue encoding standard and the FIX session layer standard (including session testcases) to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for standardization. The submission has been made to the ISO/TC68/SC 9 subcommittee (Information exchange for financial services) as a Draft International...
FIX Online Specification updated to FIX Latest
The FIX Global Technical Committee (GTC) is proud to announce the addition of all 258 Extension Packs to the FIX Latest online specification. FIX Latest is the first official release of FIX since FIX Version 5.0 Service Pack 2 (FIX 5.0 SP2) was released in 2010. FIX Latest makes available the use of all application...
Extension Packs now with Orchestra XML File
The FIX Global Technical Committee (GTC) is proud to announce the availability of a FIX Orchestra XML file with every Extension Pack (EP) starting with EP255. The file follows Version 1.0 of the new FIX Technical Standard FIX Orchestra published in February 2020 (https://www.fixtrading.org/standards/fix-orchestra/). It is a metadata standard that defines all elements of a...
UPDATE: FIX Online Specification
The FIX Global Technical Committee is happy to announce an update to the baseline version of the normative FIX Specification, initially published under https://fixtrading.org/online-specification in early December 2019. The update includes a number of enhancements described below. It does not yet include Extension Packs beyond EP97 but is intended to facilitate the understanding of FIX concepts...
The Orchestra has begun to play….
The FIX Global Technical Committee (GTC) is proud to announce the availability of Version 1.0 of the new FIX Technical Standard FIX Orchestra. It is a metadata standard that defines all elements of a messaging application as well as the syntax for the rules that govern these elements. The term FIX Orchestra file stands for...
FINRA drops support of CTCI Protocol for TRACE and ORF, FIX Protocol recommended
Any clients, including Service Bureaus, that currently utilize CTCI and wish to continue to deliver electronic transactions should migrate to the FIX Protocol by Monday, 3rd of February 2020. FINRA announced their termination of CTCI protocol (CTCI/TCP; CTCI/MQ) support for both TRACE and Over-the-Counter Reporting (ORF) transaction reporting in August 2018, for more information please...
FIX Online Specification has been published
The FIX Global Technical Committee is happy to announce that the normative FIX Specification has been successfully refactored on the basis of FIX Version 5.0 Service Pack 2 Volume 1 – 7 and is now published under https://fixtrading.org/online-specification. It is the starting point for the inclusion of the large number of Extension Packs that have been...
High Performance FIX for the Web Era – White Paper
The Fintech revolution spawned by alternative payment mechanisms and the creation of cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (“ICO”) has produced a proliferation of new web-based systems. Firms attempted to bridge the gap with REST APIs that software developers are familiar with, but a synchronous request/response architectural style is a poor fit for bidirectional communications needed...
Sharing FIX Resources in GitHub
The Village Green Three years ago, the Global Technical Committee decided to open up FIX technical efforts to a wider audience. We wanted to expand awareness of FIX protocols among software developers in the financial industry, and also to solicit their input and contributions. GitHub is the village green for software developers throughout the world,...