FIX Trading Community, the non-profit standards body, aims to distribute new data flags for equities in the second quarter which could be integrated in a consolidated tape and create a golden source of European data. Graham Dick, FIX co-chair for consolidated tape working group and chief executive of Aquis Exchange Europe in Paris, told Markets...
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ESG: The Top 10 things traders need to know
ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is rapidly becoming the key topic of 2019. News that the European Commission has now formally incorporated new legislation on sustainability disclosures1 will only speed up adoption of ESG factors within the investment process. Asset managers will not only be required to integrate and disclose sustainability risks within their portfolios...
Taking no Prisoners – the Cybersecurity Threat to Financial Services
Cybersecurity threats, not surprisingly, continue to be top of capital markets agenda but they are becoming increasingly difficult to thwart. They are not only growing in number but also in sophistication. Cutting edge technology is a critical part of the defence but both buy and sell-side firms must also bolster their organisational frameworks as well...
ICE Expands ETF hub with FIX connectivity and multi-asset trading
ICE has rolled out a FIX API (application programming interface) to allow authorised participants to connect to the ETF Hub platform to manage create/redeem orders in an automated way. To read the full article, click here.
The Down-low on Digital Currency
Everybody has heard about Bitcoin by now. It was the first cryptocurrency to go mainstream, but others are fast growing in popularity. There could be more than 1800 different types of cryptocurrencies in existence, and more are being developed every day. So how do we ensure digital currencies are safe? Please click here to view...
Bad clocks blocks FX Best-Ex
To get a good deal in fast-moving FX markets, buy-side firms need to know the time. Some of them don’t Flavor Flav, the hype man for hip-hop superstars Public Enemy, famously wore a large clock around his neck, so he knew what time it was. He would not have been a success in modern foreign...
FIXing the Industry: FIX Trading Community Talks Outsourced Trading, Post-Trade and New Initiatives in Boston
Last week at the FIX Trading Community’s Americas Trading Briefing in Boston, broker-dealers, asset managers and vendors came together at an event hosted by State Street Global Markets to discuss key issues facing the financial services industry. Three panels convened, with topics ranging from the rise of outsourced trading to the FIX protocol’s role in...
EU market changes tune on consolidated tape
Published 30 Oct 2019 Author: Alice Tchernookova Subscribe to read the full article here
AI Finds a Role as ‘Collaborative Intelligence’ Models Come to Life
On October 3rd, FIX Trading Community along with RBC Capital Markets will host the New York Regional Meeting. This evening event provided delegates with a regional update, followed by a panel debate and close with networking drinks. The panel topic was ‘The Growing Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Financial Services’. “None of us here believe...
The Consolidated Tape – It’s not easy but without standards it is impossible
Earlier this year at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference, Keynote Speaker Verena Ross, Executive Director, ESMA, discussed the fact that ESMA would be reopening the discussion around the need for quality market data and data standards. Since no consolidated tape provider had naturally emerged, ESMA would revisit the subject and if necessary, would look to mandate...