FIX in the News

FIX Executive Director, Jim Kaye, said that FIX was uniquely positioned as an independent, industry-run body to ensure MMT meets the needs of all market participants. “MMT is a great example of FIX’s unique ability to take everyone’s needs into account in a completely unbiased way, and ensure market structure and regulatory changes meet the needs that industry participants have...

The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has published Market Model Typology (MMT) 5.0, which will help trading firms ready themselves for the pending European Consolidated Tape. Continue reading on Markets Media…

The FIX Trading Community has published Market Model Typology (MMT) 5.0, as part of an effort to provide an industry data standard to help firms prepare for the upcoming European consolidated tape. MMT is an industry data standard for classifying trades across European capital markets, and the offering is set to meet the needs of firms such as investment banks...

The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) has collaborated with FIX Trading Community on the formation of common standards for securities lending. Initially focusing on pre-trade processing and trade execution, the collaboration will look to align the Common Domain Model (CDM) and FIX protocol. Continue Reading…

The FIX Trading Community (FIX) has called on the European Commission to make the use of standardised trade‑reporting flags mandatory across the bloc, arguing that clearer post‑trade transparency (PTT) is crucial for European capital markets to become more attractive. Continue reading…

Investing in the Future of Financial Services Careers In a rapidly evolving capital markets landscape, the demand for new perspectives, fresh energy, and digitally fluent professionals is at an all-time high. This episode of Fintech Focus TV, hosted by Toby Babb, offers a deep dive into the FIX NextGen initiative, a community-led movement championing the education, inclusion, and advancement of early-career professionals in electronic...

Led by global co-chair Digital Assets & Technology Committee, Vince Turcotte, 35 participants from the APAC digital assets ecosystem gathered at the 23rd Asia Pacific Trading Summit on 22 May 2025, to discuss the evolution of the digital asset market since the invention of blockchain in 2009. “Some accuse this market of evolving slowly, but it’s worth remembering that TCP.IP protocol...

HONG KONG, May 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — VinTech, a leading provider of professional fintech and AI solutions, made a notable appearance today at the 23rd Asia Pacific Trading Summit hosted by the FIX Trading Community in Hong Kong. VinTech unveiled the concept for an AI-powered platform, FIX AMA (Ask Me Anything), a concept fully supported and developed by VinTech. The summit brought together over 600 trading and technology...

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