Category: FIX in the News

With 2026 set to be a landmark year for market structure developments across Europe, regulators need to collaborate with market participants to ensure data can be used to boost competition and liquidity across European markets, asserted experts speaking at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference. Data is undoubtedly the beating heart of capital markets, and its importance in regulatory efforts, to drive...

During the FIX EMEA Trading regulatory panel, the Dutch AFM representative said resolving the ongoing trading venues perimeter debate is a priority for 2026. European regulators look set to take a harder line on firms operating multilateral trading systems without a trading venue licence. Speaking at the FIX EMEA Trading conference, Martijn Rookhuijzen, senior supervisor...

The new post-trade transparency regime was introduced 1 December 2025 in the UK and 2 March 2026 in the EU. A FIX EMEA Trading panel debated how the transparency uplift has been markedly stronger in the UK and what the future impact of the new regime will be, from reporting domicile gaming to potential credit...

Why “Finance at the Edge of Change” Is More Than a Theme As Jim explains, the theme was deliberately chosen to bind the entire day together around a cohesive narrative. Rather than hosting disconnected panels, the FIX Trading Community wanted to acknowledge what practitioners are already feeling: the velocity of change is intensifying. Continue Reading…

Provable Markets, provider of securities finance platform Aurora, has announced the release of its updated FIX specification and FIX Engine. The move follows the FIX Trading Community’s revised best practices for securities lending orders and execution workflows. Continue Reading…

The Singapore Monetary Authority (MAS) is proposing to keep a tight rein on how the financial institutions it regulates use AI, prompting industry complaints that it is being overly prescriptive. Continue Reading…

The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has proposed ten key recommendations for regulating AI in trading, in response to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) consultation, Consultation Paper on Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management, which closed on January 31. Continue Reading …

Initiative comes as several trading venues prepare to potentially extend trading hours; consultation group will focus on the evolving role of broker-dealers and the implications of expanded access for global investors. The FIX Trading Community has launched a new industry working group to examine the opportunities and challenges surrounding 24-hour trading in US equities, as industry momentum builds toward round-the-clock market access.  The initiative comes as several...

An industry association, the FIX Trading Community, wants to increase the “size and attractiveness” of European trading markets via modifications to trading practices and extensions of the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol governing electronic trading, officials say. In a whitepaper, “FIXing Europe: How the European Consolidated Tape can radically improve the image of European capital…...

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...