FIX in the News

The FIX Trading Community and The Finance Hive are excited to announce a new strategic partnership, uniting two influential communities dedicated to enhancing trading practices, fostering transparency, and driving meaningful industry progress. Both organisations share core commitments to openness, collaboration and the power of collective action in addressing pressing industry challenges. The FIX Trading Community, as a leading global standards body, has played a...

Market-structure specialists, analytics vendors and buy-side traders are seizing on a new Aquis Exchange study to demand that regulators finish the job MiFID II started and impose a single, enforceable flag taxonomy on all post-trade reports. Aquis study prompts calls for standardised FIX flags – Global Trading

Artificial Intelligence, Quant Finance, and the Future of Trading At the heart of the FIX EMEA Trading Conference 2025 in London, the bustling floors of innovation, technology, and trading insight provided the perfect backdrop for an electrifying episode of FinTech Focus TV. Hosted by Harrington Starr CEO Toby Babb, this special episode featured a thought-provoking conversation with Tom Doris, Head of Alpha Capture at Carlson Capital,...

Speaking at the FIX APAC Trading Summit in Hong Kong, Joseph Chan, Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government has reported a successful bounce back for trading after US-induced market volatility in early Q2. Hong Kong claims rebound with strong StockConnect flows – Global Trading

In this exciting new episode of FinTech Focus TV filmed at FIX Trading Community EMEA Conference 2025, Toby is joined by Paul Brennan, Chief Strategy Officer at Imandra, for a truly forward-thinking discussion on how AI is reshaping the financial services landscape. Fresh from a high-impact roundtable at the UK Consulate in New York, Paul shares his global perspective on...

In this exclusive on-location episode of FinTech Focus TV, host Toby sits down with Vincent Grandjean, Founder & CEO of Propellant Digital, at the vibrant FIX Trading Community EMEA Conference in London. Vincent brings over two decades of experience across equity and fixed income markets, and shares the remarkable journey behind the launch and rapid rise of Propellant.Digital. As a...

In this powerful edition of FinTech Focus TV filmed at the FIX Trading Community EMEA Conference 2025, Toby sits down with Dr Robert Barnes, Co-CEO of BPX Digital Securities Exchange and Managing Director of Anopolis, to unpack the evolving digital asset landscape and the legal milestones shaping the future of tokenization. The Next Frontier of Digital Assets | Harrington Starr

Institutional Adoption, Interoperability, and the Future of Digital Assets At the 2025 FIX EMEA Trading Conference in London, FinTech Focus TV host Toby Babb sat down with Madeleine Boys, Director of Programmes and Innovation at Global Digital Finance (GDF), to explore the rapidly evolving world of digital assets, the growing role of institutional participants, and the innovations driving convergence between traditional finance and digital finance. Full...

FIX engines, the workhorses of financial messaging, are quietly undergoing a continuous transformation. First developed in the early 1990s by Fidelity Investments and Salomon Brothers to standardise electronic equity trading, the FIX (Financial Information eXchange) Protocol quickly became the global standard for order and trade messaging across asset classes. Click Here for the Full Article

The TRADE catches up with equity trader at T. Rowe Price, Evan Canwell, at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference 2025 to discuss the current use cases for artificial intelligence in trading and what the long term implications might be for the long term identify of the trading desk. Watch the Interview Here…

“In the past month, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in three powerful events that each tackled data and AI from different angles: the Data Management Summit 2025, the FIX EMEA Trading Conference, and the GovTech Summit in London.” Read Matthew’s blog here: Intelligent Signals: What Data Leaders Are Really Talking About in 2025

A big thank you to our  ‘The Future of Our People – How will AI impact our industry’s workforce?’ moderator and panellists Matthew Cousens (Milvus-I Consultancy) Evan Canwell, CFA (T. Rowe Price), Mark Freeman (Looking After Me), Rugiyya Gahramanli (LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)) and Samuel Livingstone, CFA (Ambienta) for their contributions at the EMEA Trading Conference. Read the full article:...