Where the Global Trading Community Meets at the Edge of Change Each year, as markets continue to evolve in subtle but consequential ways, the Asia Pacific Trading Summit in Hong Kong marks a moment for the industry to pause, reconnect and look ahead. Continue Reading…
24th Asia Pacific Trading Summit – The Trade
Markets in motion – what happened in APAC in 2025 and where to from here?
Speaking at the Singapore FIX Trading Community conference, FIX Southeast Asia Multi-Asset Trading Conference 2025, Winnie Khattar, APAC Head of Market Development, BlackRock and Larry Tabb, Director: Market Structure Research, Bloomberg, LLP looked back over the year in US and APAC markets, and considered how markets might evolve in response to the many changes happening at once. APAC markets experienced...
Supported Versions of the FIX Protocol
Up until November 2020, FIX 5.0 Service Pack 2 remained the latest version of FIX Protocol. It was the last of traditional, numbered versions identified in the FIX field ApplVerID(1128) – a field added as follows in FIX 5.0. Extension Packs (a.k.a. EPs) were introduced after the release of FIX 4.4 as a means to identify each gap analysis proposal...
FIX EMEA: European liquidity crisis more semantic than systematic
Industry discussions over recent years have frequently mourned the decline of the lit market and the lack of addressable liquidity in Europe and the UK. Yet panellists at the FIX EMEA Trading Conferences in London last week were optimistic about the state of the markets, and suggested that the issue is really a semantic one. Continue Reading…
AI’s “eloquent lies” will keep traders in their seats
AI has been, is, and will for the foreseeable future remain, one of the hottest topics in trading, with large language models (LLMs) the latest iteration to make headline news. … read more
Axe throwing gets out of hand at FIX EMEA
The use of ‘axes’ that dealers provide to buy-side clients, giving an indication of the price at which they will trade at a given size, proved controversial on a panel at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference in London. Just under half of the audience called it “an indication of interest to trade that is provided by a dealer” in a...
Toronto Networking Event 2026
Toronto Networking Event, kindly hosted by Iress at their Toronto office on Wednesday, May 20th. This informal gathering will bring together industry participants to exchange ideas, discuss the evolving market landscape, and strengthen connections within the trading ecosystem. The evening will open with welcome remarks from Scott Govoni (FIX Trading Community) and Steve Weishar (Iress). We look forward to welcoming...
FIX Trading Community’s Jim Kaye shares his key conference takeaways
Jim Kaye, executive director at FIX Trading Community’s catches up with The TRADE on the ground at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference 2026 to discuss the main talking points and what’s on the market structure horizon. Watch here.
Fidelity International’s Sam Knight on the ‘true’ cost of fixed income e-trading
The TRADE sits down with Sam Knight, director of global e-trading at Fidelity International, to unpack the key talking points around the fixed income electronic trading landscape, as well as the regulatory developments shaping this sector, and how this may develop throughout 2026 and beyond. Watch here
Without data you’re just another person with an opinion
With 2026 set to be a landmark year for market structure developments across Europe, regulators need to collaborate with market participants to ensure data can be used to boost competition and liquidity across European markets, asserted experts speaking at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference. Data is undoubtedly the beating heart of capital markets, and its importance in regulatory efforts, to drive market transparency and supervision was...