The FIX Digital Asset working group was established to help industry participants navigate the issues and regulatory guidance associated with trading digital currencies. Currently, participants are discussing workflows for the buyside/sellside and venues. Please click here to view the working group page.
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FIX Trading Community announces Release Candidate 3 of FIX Orchestra – the open standard for machine readable rules of engagement for all financial protocols
London, New York, Hong Kong March 13, 2018: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the publication of Release Candidate 3 for FIX Orchestra for public review, to help the industry move further towards standardisation and automation of rules of engagement and deliver major efficiencies to...
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FIX Trading Community to celebrate 10-year anniversary of EMEA Trading Conference in March 2018
London, New York, Hong Kong, 7th March 2018: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced that it will be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the EMEA Trading Conference on 15th March 2018. This year high on the list of topics to discuss are: MiFID II –...
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FIX Trading Community releases guidelines to help firms meet cybersecurity requirements
London, New York, Hong Kong, 24th January 2018: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the release of the FIX-over-TLS (FIXS) standard and guidelines to assist users of the FIX Protocol meet certain security requirements. FIXS is part of a larger programme of work that...
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FIX Trading Community releases Recommended Practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID II
FIX Trading Community releases Recommended Practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID II Providing definitive guidelines to assist firms with unbundling prior to January 2018 London, New York, Hong Kong, 15th November 2017: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today releases Recommended Practices for Commission...
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FIX Trading Community releases Recommended Practices for Best Execution Reporting as required by MiFID II RTS 27 & 28
London, New York, Hong Kong, 18th October 2017: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the final release of its Recommended Practices for Best Execution Reporting as required by MiFID II RTS 27 & 28. The objective of this document is to provide guidance to...
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FIX Trading Community announces enhancements to the FIX Protocol to meet the requirements of MiFID II and MiFIR.
London, New York, Hong Kong 27th February 2017: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the publication of a document detailing extensions to the FIX Protocol to meet the requirements of MiFID II and MiFIR. The FIX Global Technical Committee has approved these changes and...
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FIX Trading Community announces new recommended guidelines for the use of FIX in multi asset classes for post-trade
London, New York, 8th August 2016: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the release of new guidelines for the use of FIX in post-trade processing for multi asset classes and a common post-trade framework The FIX Global Post-Trade Working Group has been focusing its efforts...
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FIX Trading Community announces release of FIX version to meet high performance demands
London, New York, 30th June 2016: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the release of Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) version 1.0 Draft Standard to support high performance demands in transactions and/or data feeds. Recent improvements in the speed of hardware, software and network connections have...
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FIX Trading Community develops standards for MiFID II transaction and trade reporting
London, New York, 13th June 2016: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the development of the FIX Protocol for use for transmitting MiFID II Transaction Reports to Approved Reporting Mechanisms (ARMs). Under MiFID II, all investment firms (including certain buy-side institutions) executing transactions in financial...