FIX in the News

TradeHeader, the financial data standards integration and software consultancy, today announced a significant milestone for its specialist training course for compliance professionals within financial institutions, ‘The Introduction to the Common Domain Model (CDM)’ which has has now successfully trained more than 1,000 participants from banks, asset managers, custodians, exchanges, and service providers within the global financial industry. Continue Reading…

Panellists at FIX Paris said the proliferation of credit axes comes as a result of platforms rating liquidity providers on the basis of the number of axes they stream, rather than actual liquidity quality. Sell-side and buy-side panellists at FIX Paris voiced concerns about the use of dealer axes on electronic platforms as an indicator of liquidity. They noted that...

For the second half of last week, I was in Singapore attending the FIX Southeast Asia Multi-Asset Trading Conference 2025. It was a fairly engrossing event with plenty of interesting topics being shared and discussed throughout. The conference started on time, more or less as these thing usually go, with a breakfast session for attendees to get to meet and...

In this episode of Traders Magazine’s Open Order podcast, Global Trading’s Editor, Nick Dunbar spoke to Broadridge’s David Runacres about how booming capital markets in Japan are spurring automation and improving resilience. Continue Reading…

After years of stagnation and insularity, Japan’s buyside is now catching up fast. At Nomura Asset Management, Mai Tanaka and her team are helping to drive the country’s trading transformation To encounter Mai Tanaka at the FIX Japan Electronic Trading Conference in Tokyo in October is like watching a celebrity in their element. Continue Reading…

Exchanges, market makers, and retail brokers as well as investor associations report that households are buying equities – often via apps and dollar-cost averaging – even as institutional money hedges and de-risks. In fact, they tend to buy more when volatility rises. On Euronext’s cash markets, Roland Prévot, head of retail at Euronext, said at FIX Paris: “Across Euronext, retail represents about...

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 manual processes associated with ETF...

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 trade reporting and data quality....

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 is now at the early...

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 and close gaps across the...