Category: FIX in the News

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…

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...

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

The FIX Trading Community has put forward a series of proposals aimed at enhancing the transparency and appeal of European capital markets. In a whitepaper titled “FIXing Europe – How the European Consolidated Tape can radically improve the image of European capital markets,” the industry association outlines four key reforms to address long-standing issues with...

Sandbox to settlement – views on the state of the crypto ecosystem from the FIX Australia conference Speakers: Richard Galvin, Executive Chairman and CIO,  DACM Rachael Lucas, Head of Marketing & Communications, BTC Markets Sagar Desai, APAC Head for Wholesale Client Business, Coinbase Institutional Kate Cooper, CEO, OKX Australia Crypto has outgrown its sandbox and...

The suggestions are aimed at ensuring increased investor interest in European capital markets.   The FIX Trading Community has proposed a new set of recommendations for the European consolidated tape (CT), to address issues of data quality, transparency and the attractiveness of European markets.  FIX proposes four reforms to ensure the European CT helps to resolve these obstacles...

After years of stagnation, Japan’s equity market is booming and alternative trading system providers are flocking in. Buyside traders now hope that the stranglehold of HFT firms will be broken. With its first female prime minister and the stock market at a record high, Japan is attracting a new influx of domestic retail and foreign...

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