FIX in the News

Crackdown by regulators aims to protect investors entering a more digital world

Published by: MondoVisione 31/08/2021 A US Government crackdown on unregulated digital exchanges and stablecoins has long been on the cards, according to broker dealer and pioneering secondary market ATS operator Rialto Markets.   But rather than trying to kill off this emerging sector, Rialto Markets’ Head of Market Structure Lee E Saba expects and welcomes an official drive to create a...

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Update on routing transparency initiative

Published By : Traders Magazine | 2nd June 2021 With Enrico Cacciatore, Head of Market Structure & Trading Analytics, Voya Investment Management, and Tim Sargent, CEO, CalcGuard Technologies What have been some challenges as the Routing Transparency Initiative (RTI) has moved forward? ENRICO CACCIATORE: The biggest challenge for RTI is the inherent lack of standardized data and lack of data...

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FIX and DCA See Rosy Future for Digital Assets

Published by: Traders Magazine | 27th May 2021 In the last 12 months, there has been a sea change in the crypto markets with a shift from the sentiment-driven retail model and speculative trading to a more mature, long-term investment approach, as new institutional players begin allocating a portion of their investments to crypto assets, Tony Pettipiece, Chair of the...

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Exactpro Appoints Hiroshi Matsubara as Director of Business Development Across APAC Region

Published by: Finextra | 18th May 2021 Exactpro, a leading software testing services provider for financial market infrastructures, is pleased to announce the appointment of Hiroshi Matsubara (Matsu) as Director of Business Development for Asia-Pacific (APAC), with responsibility for leading the firm’s expansion in the region effective from 17 May 2021. In his new role with Exactpro, Matsu will spearhead...

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FIX and Global DCA Partner to Promote Standards for Digital Asset Trading

Published by: Finance Feeds | 18th May 2021 The cooperation aims to promote the development and use of standards for the entire life cycle of the electronic trading of digital assets from buy-side, sell-side, exchanges/trading venues, settlement/custody, and regulatory compliance/reporting. The FIX Trading Community has partnered with the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association (Global DCA) to strategically combine their...

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FIX Group Helps Mold Digital Asset Trading Standards

Published by: Financial Technologies Forum | 18th May 2021 FIX Trading Community Partners with Global DCA The FIX Trading Community, a standards body for transacting securities via the electronic Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol, will be working with the Global Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Association (Global DCA) to create standards for trading digital assets, officials confirm. Both groups “recognize that...

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FIX sets its sights on digital asset trading

Published by: Finextra| 17th May 2021 The FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading and the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association (Global DCA), the global self-regulatory association for the digital asset & cryptocurrency industry, each recognize that their complementary efforts can be strategically combined to further promote standardization for trading digital...

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Steven Kelly Receives ISITC Excellence Award

Published by: FTF News | Financial Technologies Forum | March 31, 2021 Steven Kelly Receives ISITC Excellence Award Industry standards trade group ISITC has selected Steven J. Kelly, CFA, to be the 2021 recipient of the ISITC Standard of Excellence Award for his accomplishments in developing standards and best practices for financial services operations. A former ISITC chairman, Kelly received...

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ETFs: Market Making and Trading Technology

Published by: Global Trading | 24th March 2021 ETFs: Market Making and Trading Technology With Linda Middleditch, Chief of Product Strategy and Engineering, Itiviti Why are exchange-traded funds (ETFs) growing in popularity? ETFs globally have gone through an incredible growth phase over the past decade. The market has increased more than 700%, from below $1 trillion to around $7.7 trillion...

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FIXatdl: The New Frontier

Published by: Global Trading | 16th March 2021 FIXatdl: The New Frontier It’s been more than ten years since FIXatdl™ had its last upgrade. FIXatdl version 1.1 (released in 2010), achieved its main objective: standardizing the specification of algorithmic order types into a machine-readable XML format. Its scope covers pre-trade analytics, order build workflow, local validation, and finally, submission of...

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ESG in 2021

Post the Biden victory and now the release of updated European Sustainable Finance Disclosure regulation, capital markets are gearing up for the new mantra that “Green is Now Good”. This is the very concept discussed at FIX EMEA 2020 back in September – ESG is no longer a fringe concept but now an integral part of the larger investment ecosystem....

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