ANNAPOLIS, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9) today announced that, as of January 1, 2019, Jim Northey of the FIX Trading Community is the new chair of ISO TC68 – Financial Services. As the only ISO technical committee solely focused on financial industry standards, TC68 plays a key role in the development and adoption of new technologies in...
Jim Northey Named Chair of ISO Technical Committee for Global Financial Services Standards, TC68
December 21, 2018January 21, 2023
Podcast: MiFID II – One Year On
20 December 2018: In conversation with Julia Streets, Rebecca Healey, Co-Chair of the EMEA Regional Committee at FIX Trading Community and Head of EMEA Market Structure & Strategy at Liquidnet; and Matthew Coupe, Co-Chair EMEA Regional Committee & EMEA Regulatory Subcommittee, FIX Trading Community, and Director, Barclays Investment Bank, offer their reflections on MiFID II almost a year since its...
December 18, 2018January 21, 2023
FIX Trading Community Collaborates with Trade Associations for the London EMEA Trading Conference in March 2019
FIX Trading Community Collaborates with Trade Associations for the London EMEA Trading Conference in March 2019 Including AFME, ICMA, EDMA and BVI London, New York, Hong Kong, 18 December 2018:FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced that the EMEA Trading Conference on 14thMarch 2019 will be held in association with...
December 17, 2018January 21, 2023
Call for Participation – New FIX Working Groups
The FIX Trading Community is pleased to announce the development of a number of different working groups under the FIX Trading Community umbrella. If you wish to be added as a participant on any of these, please respond to the FIX Program Office (fix@fixtrading.org) indicating which groups are of interest to you and/or your colleagues.* Repo Working Group – To...
December 10, 2018January 21, 2023
Expanding FIX to Boost STP in the Post-Trade Arena
The Global Post Trade Working Group at FIX Trading Community is currently working to expand the use of the FIX messaging standard into new workflows and processes, namely broadening asset class coverage and enabling FIX to support workflows between asset managers, brokers and custodians. A lack of cross-industry standards allowing counterparties to collaborate has often frustrated attempts to improve efficiency...
December 5, 2018January 21, 2023
GTC Blog
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD – Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) V2.0 RC2 – Version 2.0 template extension mechanism was enhanced to allow adding of repeating groups and variable-length data elements to both the root of a message as well as nested within a repeating group without breaking decoders informed by older version of a message schema. Please click here to view the...
December 5, 2018January 21, 2023
MMT
The Market Model Typology (MMT) was developed to provide data standardization across financial markets. The latest version of MMT delivers efficient operational solutions for fulfilling trade flagging requirements raised in MiFID II RTS1 and RTS2. Click here to view more details regarding the MMT standard.
December 5, 2018January 21, 2023
CAT Implementations
Guidance for CAT Implementations – FIX and FIF members collaborated to provide guidance for firms implementing CAT NMS Plan (Phase 2A-Equities) CAT-FIX Mappings Extension Packs: Gaps to address data reporting requirements by the CAT NMS Plan: EP253 Firm Designated Identifier(FDID): standardized use of FIX to communicate FDIDs: EP248
December 5, 2018January 21, 2023
FIX Orchestra
FIX Orchestra was conceived as machine readable rules of engagement between counterparties. Orchestra is intended to cut time to onboard counterparties and improve accuracy of implementations. FIX Orchestra Version 1.0 Draft Standard is now available (click here). Potential adopters are strongly encouraged to begin working with the Draft Standard.
December 5, 2018January 21, 2023
Digital Asset Working Group
The FIX Digital Asset working group was established to help industry participants navigate the issues and regulatory guidance associated with trading digital currencies. Currently, participants are discussing workflows for the buyside/sellside and venues. Please click here to view the working group page.