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 Trading Community recommends data practices for European CTs
The industry association has published practices and workflows using FIX messaging standards for the upcoming EU consolidated tapes. Continue Reading….
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...
Talking innovation at the FIX Southeast Asia Multi-Asset Trading Conference 2025
For the second half of last week, I was in Singapore attending the FIX Southeast Asia Multi-Asset Trading Conference 2025. It was a fairly engrossing event with plenty of interesting topics being shared and discussed throughout. The conference started on time, more or less as these thing usually go, with a breakfast session for attendees...
Broadridge’s David Runacres: Automating the Japanese Trade Lifecycle
In this episode of Traders Magazine’s Open Order podcast, Global Trading’s Editor, Nick Dunbar spoke to Broadridge’s David Runacres about how booming capital markets in Japan are spurring automation and improving resilience. Continue Reading…
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…
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...
AQX Technologies Joins the FIX Trading Community
A step forward in AQXT’s mission to modernize global post-trade workflows. AQX Technologies, a leading provider of post-trade automation solutions for buy-side and sell-side firms, today announced that it has joined the FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language used across global markets: the FIX Protocol. Continue Reading…
FIX is moving to unify atomised European ETF redemption and creation
A FIX Trading working group is drafting new protocols to bring ETF primary processes into private networks. ETF creation and redemption are labour-intensive, but as issuers and authorised participants (APs) warn, private-network connection costs need to be considered. At FIX Paris 2025 on 20 November, the ETF working group presented proposals to improve the stubbornly...
FIXing Europe: The Consolidated Tape
European capital markets are home to some of the world’s most respected companies – the biggest players in the world in aerospace (Airbus), luxury goods (LVMH), the semiconductor industry (ASML), pharmaceuticals (Novo Nordisk), fast fashion (Inditex) and cosmetics (L’Oréal), just to name a few, call Europe home. Continue Reading