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...
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Regulators start patrolling trading venue perimeter
During the FIX EMEA Trading regulatory panel, the Dutch AFM representative said resolving the ongoing trading venues perimeter debate is a priority for 2026. European regulators look set to take a harder line on firms operating multilateral trading systems without a trading venue licence. Speaking at the FIX EMEA Trading conference, Martijn Rookhuijzen, senior supervisor at the Dutch authority for...
UK bond transparency jump outpaces EU, with reporting up 307%
The new post-trade transparency regime was introduced 1 December 2025 in the UK and 2 March 2026 in the EU. A FIX EMEA Trading panel debated how the transparency uplift has been markedly stronger in the UK and what the future impact of the new regime will be, from reporting domicile gaming to potential credit aggregated order books. Panellists at...
France Trading Conference 2026
The France Trading Conference is a must-attend, one-day event bringing together senior trading professionals to explore the issues shaping the future of trading. Produced by the FIX Trading Community, the global non-profit standards body at the heart of the global trading community, the event is formulated 100% by senior representatives of firms active across the EMEA region. The France Trading...
FIX EMEA Trading Conference 2026: Markets Under Pressure
Why “Finance at the Edge of Change” Is More Than a Theme As Jim explains, the theme was deliberately chosen to bind the entire day together around a cohesive narrative. Rather than hosting disconnected panels, the FIX Trading Community wanted to acknowledge what practitioners are already feeling: the velocity of change is intensifying. Continue Reading…
EP301 added to FIX Latest (Securities Lending Trade Enhancements)
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...
Provable Markets enhances Aurora with updated FIX specifications
Provable Markets, provider of securities finance platform Aurora, has announced the release of its updated FIX specification and FIX Engine. The move follows the FIX Trading Community’s revised best practices for securities lending orders and execution workflows. Continue Reading…
MAS’s AI proposals “overly broad”, industry says
The Singapore Monetary Authority (MAS) is proposing to keep a tight rein on how the financial institutions it regulates use AI, prompting industry complaints that it is being overly prescriptive. Continue Reading…
FIX recommends regulatory approaches to AI in trading
The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has proposed ten key recommendations for regulating AI in trading, in response to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) consultation, Consultation Paper on Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management, which closed on January 31. Continue Reading …
FIX recommends regulatory approaches to AI in trading: MAS consultation
10 February, 2026 (London/Singapore): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has proposed ten key recommendations for regulating AI in trading, in response to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) consultation, Consultation Paper on Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management, which closed on January 31. Executive Director Jim Kaye said the...