20 January, 2026 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has launched a working group to examine issues and opportunities around 24-hour trading of US equities. Several alternative trading systems (ATS) have opened to offer overnight access to US markets. While overnight volume is currently low at around 0.1% of total US market volume, interest from both retail and institutional investors is growing, with...
FIX launches 24-hour trading working group
24th Asia Pacific Trading Summit
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. As the flagship event of the Asia Pacific FIX Conference series, the Summit has become a true...
India FIX Conference 2026
Where a Rapidly Evolving Market Comes Together India’s institutional trading landscape continues to evolve at pace. As participation deepens and markets grow in scale and sophistication, a series of ongoing changes in market structure, regulation and technology are collectively reshaping how trading is conducted and how firms engage with the market. The India FIX Conference provides a dedicated forum to...
FIX Group Wants Reforms for E.U.’s CTP Reporting
An industry association, the FIX Trading Community, wants to increase the “size and attractiveness” of European trading markets via modifications to trading practices and extensions of the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol governing electronic trading, officials say. In a whitepaper, “FIXing Europe: How the European Consolidated Tape can radically improve the image of European capital… read more
FIX seeks feedback on changes to securities lending
22 December, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, is seeking industry feedback on its suggested changes to the way institutions perform securities lending. FIX has published a gap analysis and recommended practices and is asking industry participants to provide their views by 31 January, 2026. The solution seeks...
FIX targets ‘machine-usable’ execution tags for AI agents
Buy side traders say they can spend months deciphering broker-specific FIX tags before they can even think of using AI tools for TCA, research and trading. FIX is now pushing for machine-usable execution metadata. The AI working group is working on building up the standards from the buy-side-mandated, algo-specific flags trio: tags 29, 30 and 851. The framework would extend...
Outlook 2026: Jim Kaye, FIX Trading Community
What was the highlight of 2025? FIX was, as always, busy on many fronts around the world in 2025, but one area that brought a long-term piece of work to fruition was the publication of our recommended practices for the European Consolidated Tape. The new recommended practices were the result of years of work with hundreds of industry participants. For...
Bond market axes struggle in electronified markets, ICMA finds
ICMA and the FIX Trading Community have issued a white paper examining issues with market axes in an increasingly electronic bond market, warning that both the buy- and sell-side need to be confident in the security and accuracy of their communications. “Translating this age-old process into the new world of electronic trading is proving more difficult than for other protocols,”...
FIX NextGen Connect
The FIX Trading Community and EMEA Next Generation Steering Committee would like to invite members to join us on Tuesday 3rd February for the next session in the FIX NextGen event series, hosted by Euronext in London. Please join us for an engaging panel discussion on “The Education Gap: Informed, Invested, Influenced”, where members of the NextGen Steering Committee...
EP300 added to FIX Latest (EU CT for Bonds and Equities)
The FIX Global Technical Committee (GTC) announces the addition of new Extension Packs to the FIX Latest specification, the normative specification of the FIX Protocol. The artifacts included for each of the individual Extension Packs are as follows: ASBUILT – clean PDF document of the implemented Gap Analysis that includes the assignment of new tags and values; ASBUILT with changetracks – same...