The FIX Cybersecurity Working Group was established a number of years ago in response to the deteriorating security landscape for financial services institutions. This article outlines the Group’s operating logic, initiatives to date, and anticipates the work the FIX Cybersecurity Working Group will undertake in continuing efforts to counter cybersecurity risks. Background and Landscape Security has long been an essential...
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FIX EMEA Trading Conference 2018: Podcast – TABB Forum
http://tabbforum.com/videos/fix-emea-trading-conference-2018-podcast On March 15, 2018, the FIX Trading Community celebrated its 10th annual EMEA Trading Conference at Old Billingsgate in London. The full-day event was attended by more than 1,000 people and covered the most pressing issues facing the institutional trading community, providing a neutral platform for buy-side, sell-side, exchanges, vendors and regulators to share their ideas on how the...
FINRA to Change to FIX Execution Time Trade Reporting
Effective Monday, August 20, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority will require a change to all FIX trade reporting related to the processing of execution time during Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes. This update affects firms’ transaction reports for all FINRA Multi Product Platform products (MPP), including TRACE, the OTC Trade Reporting Facility (ORF), and The Alternative Display Facility (ADF). Currently,...
Interview with Maria Netley at the FIX EMEA 2018 Trading Conference – The Trade
Interview with Matthew Coupe at the FIX Trading Community EMEA 2018 Trading Conference – The Trade
Interview with Jim Northey at the FIX Trading Community EMEA Trading 2018 Conference – The Trade
A World Without FIX – Global Trading article
The FIX Protocol has transformed trading by increasing speed, reducing errors and improving efficiency. It also brings market participants together within a ruthless industry. As someone of a certain age, I can indeed remember a world without FIX. I can remember quite clearly receiving faxes from clients with lists of orders and having to decipher what they said, calling back...
The FIX Trading Conference EMEA 2018 – Courtney McGuinn, Operations Director – Harrington Starr
FIX EMEA 2018- Interview with Courtney Doyle McGuinn – The Trade
How FIX is changing post-trade FX for the sell-side – JD Supra article
Post-trade FX activities have been dramatically simplified by the FIX interface, allowing sell-side participants to navigate challenges such as liquidity fragmentation and to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). The FIX protocol has been widely used in equity and fixed income, but is now increasingly popular, and powerful, in the FX world. Recent FX developments, such as MiFID II and...
FIX Protocol Enables Pre-Trade Allocation – Global Trading Article
Regulators should recognise the properties of the FIX protocol in their discussions about the merits of introducing pre-trade allocation rules. By Damian Bierman, Global Co-Chair, Asia Pacific Technical Committee, FIX Trading Community, and Head of Asia-Pacific, Portfolio Management & Trading Solutions, FactSet There are already established standards and processes in place for buy-side firms to communicate share allocations to their...
FIX Trading Community FIX EMEA: Ten years of bringing the industry together – bobsguide article
Ten years ago the markets were in the middle of a significant downturn. As of March 2008, the FTSE 100 was at 5776 and the Dow 30 was at 14,237. Both indices had more pain to come, as the full extent of the financial crisis came to light. Of course, after a storm there is a period of reflection and...