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FIX targets ‘machine-usable’ execution tags for AI agents

Buy side traders say they can spend months deciphering broker-specific FIX tags before they can even think of using AI tools for TCA, research and trading. FIX is now pushing for machine-usable execution metadata. The AI working group is working on building up the standards from the buy-side-mandated, algo-specific flags trio: tags 29, 30 and...

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Outlook 2026: Jim Kaye, FIX Trading Community

What was the highlight of 2025? FIX was, as always, busy on many fronts around the world in 2025, but one area that brought a long-term piece of work to fruition was the publication of our recommended practices for the European Consolidated Tape. The new recommended practices were the result of years of work with...

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Bond market axes struggle in electronified markets, ICMA finds

ICMA and the FIX Trading Community have issued a white paper examining issues with market axes in an increasingly electronic bond market, warning that both the buy- and sell-side need to be confident in the security and accuracy of their communications. “Translating this age-old process into the new world of electronic trading is proving more...

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Pirum joins FIX Trading Community

Pirum has joined the FIX Trading Community. The global fintech has become a member of the FIX Trading Community, in a move it says will help foster increased collaboration towards open industry-wide standards, to contribute directly to standards development, and to drive efficiency and better client outcomes for industry participants across the world. Continue Reading…

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FIX Paris: Bond axes multitude does not reflect liquidity quality

Panellists at FIX Paris said the proliferation of credit axes comes as a result of platforms rating liquidity providers on the basis of the number of axes they stream, rather than actual liquidity quality. Sell-side and buy-side panellists at FIX Paris voiced concerns about the use of dealer axes on electronic platforms as an indicator...

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Leading Japan’s trading transformation

After years of stagnation and insularity, Japan’s buyside is now catching up fast. At Nomura Asset Management, Mai Tanaka and her team are helping to drive the country’s trading transformation To encounter Mai Tanaka at the FIX Japan Electronic Trading Conference in Tokyo in October is like watching a celebrity in their element. Continue Reading…

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Retail propping up markets, buyside and venues say

Exchanges, market makers, and retail brokers as well as investor associations report that households are buying equities – often via apps and dollar-cost averaging – even as institutional money hedges and de-risks. In fact, they tend to buy more when volatility rises. On Euronext’s cash markets, Roland Prévot, head of retail at Euronext, said at FIX...