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FIX in the News
November 11, 2020January 21, 2023
Industry Bodies Publish APAC Charter for Indication of Interest Issuers
Published by: Regulation Asia| 10th November 2020 ASIFMA, Quorum 15, Asia TraderForum, the FIX Trading Community and their members have established a consistent approach for issuing Indications of Interest. A collective of industry associations have together launched The Asia Pacific IOI Charter, providing guidance for all market participants who issue Indications of Interest (IOIs) and the recipients that react to...
October 30, 2020January 21, 2023
The long journey to frictionless electronic trading
Published by: The Trade News|28th October 2020 By: Kevin Houstoun Having been instrumental in the development of the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) Protocol, chairman of Rapid Addition and director at FIX Protocol Ltd, Kevin Houstoun, provides a brief history of the industry’s messaging standard. Thinking about how integral FIX protocol has become to electronic trading, it’s interesting to reflect on...
October 22, 2020January 21, 2023
Making Markets Transparent
Trading generates large amounts of data. To ensure the quality is on par with the quantity, the Swiss Stock Exchange is actively involved in data standardisation initiatives. One such initiative is the MMT – short for Market Model Typology – which facilitates compliance with MiFID trade flagging obligations. Industry efforts to promote common standards for post-trade data across asset classes...
October 7, 2020January 21, 2023
Imperfect Pitch – Exactpro – Leadership – Sibos 2020
This video was prepared for the Sibos 2020 Discover Perfect Pitch competition. We hope it might be useful for people genuinely interested in FinTech, software quality and reliability. This video focuses on some very real quality assurance controversies. It contains no political message, although we might have been inspired by several real public figures and their speeches in the news...
September 22, 2020January 21, 2023
FIX EMEA Trading Conference – key takeaways
FIX EMEA Trading conference takeaways from Trader TV on Vimeo.
September 4, 2020January 21, 2023
Post COVID-19: What’s Next for ESG?
Published by: Global Trading|2nd September 2020 By Rebecca Healey, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee & EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community ESG is no longer a fringe concept. A year ago it was highlighted that more than 70% of investment firms had a commitment to incorporate ESG across all investment products – the rising pandemic along with the Black Lives Matter movement...
August 20, 2020January 21, 2023
FIX Standards Submitted for ISO Standardization
PUBLISHED by: FINEXTRA 19 August 2020 FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, announced today their submission of the FIX session layer standard and the FIX tagvalue encoding standard for standardization, to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) via Technical Committee TC 68 – Financial Services, Subcommittee 9 – Information Exchange (ISO...
August 3, 2020January 21, 2023
How the Financial Information eXchange can FIX the crypto market
Published: NewsBTC 3August2020The benefit of utilizing the FIX Protocol API for crypto currency exchanges, please click here.
July 28, 2020January 21, 2023
Targeting institutional crypto investors with technology upgrade
Published: Finextra 23July2020 Further tools being introduced include an institutional-grade API with FIX protocol, in addition to REST and WebSocket protocols, and a credit line program** for spot trading….. Click here to read full article.
July 28, 2020January 21, 2023
ICE Aims to expand ETF Hub Internationally
Published by: MarketsMedia 27July2020 Peter Borstelmann, head of ICE ETF Hub, said the platform is aiming to expand coverage to international equity exchange-traded funds listed in the US and ETFs listed in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Borstelmann told Markets Media: “We are looking to expand coverage to include international equity and EMEA-listed ETFs in response to market demand.” The...
July 1, 2020January 21, 2023
Execution Venue Reporting – Updated Recommended Practices
Published by: MarketsMedia 30thJune2020 FIX Trading Community Execution Venue Reporting Recommended Practices London, New York, Hong Kong, 29 June 2020: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, announced today an updated release of the Execution Venue Reporting Recommended Practice Guidelines. Originally produced by the FIX Trading Community Global Buy Side Committee to...