Category: Press Release

London, [16th December 2025] – The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and the FIX Trading Community have jointly released a white paper examining the electronic distribution of bond market axes across Europe. The report highlights how FIX standards are being applied to improve consistency, reliability, and security in axe dissemination as markets transition to automated...

20 January, 2026 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has launched a working group to examine issues and opportunities around 24-hour trading of US equities. Several alternative trading systems (ATS) have opened to offer overnight access to US markets. While overnight volume is currently low at around 0.1% of total US market volume, interest from both retail and...

22 December, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, is seeking industry feedback on its suggested changes to the way institutions perform securities lending. FIX has published a gap analysis and recommended practices and is asking industry participants to provide their views by 31...

1 December 2025 – FIX Trading Community, together with the Investment Association (IA) and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), have today announced a crossindustry taskforce to create electronic communication standards and promote industry-wide solutions to make equity capital raising – such as IPOs and secondary share placements –more efficient, transparent and digital....

FIX Trading Community calls for sweeping changes to ETF market The capital markets industry association is calling for participants for a new ETF Working Group which aims to standardise trading practices for ETFs 25 November, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, is inviting ETF market participants...

FIX Trading Community proposes to make EU markets bigger, better     The capital markets industry association has called for new trading practices and FIX Protocol extensions to improve transparency and accessibility of European markets     4 November, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, has published a whitepaper, FIXing Europe – How the European Consolidated...

14 October, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has committed to working with the global bond trading community and the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) to improve the efficiency and quality of bond trading. The joint effort, spearheaded by the FIX Fixed Income...

12 August, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has published Market Model Typology (MMT) 5.0, which will help trading firms ready themselves for the pending European Consolidated Tape. MMT is the independent industry data standard for classifying trades used across European capital markets,...

The lively discussion highlighted the exciting opportunities (and some of the challenges) that overnight trading in the US is bringing to retail and institutional traders. Many thanks to our speakers for sharing their insights, Paul Adcock (24 Exchange), Josh Burch (NYSE), Jaclyn Gude (DTCC), Brian Hyndman (Blue Ocean ATS), Jason Wallach (BRUCE), and FIX APAC...

PRESS RELEASE – FIX Trading Community responds to European Commission targeted consultation on development and integration of EU capital markets FIX Trading Community has submitted its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the integration of EU capital markets, under the broader framework of the Savings and Investments Union (SIU) strategy. Representing a global...