The FIX Trading Community has called for changes to UK financial regulation in response to consultations from the Financial Conduct Authority, focusing on post-trade transparency and transaction reporting requirements. Continue Reading…
FIX Calls for UK Regulatory Changes on Market Data and Reporting
FIX Urges Changes To UK Financial Regulation
The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has called for changes to UK financial regulation as part of its responses to FCA consultations on the UK consolidated tape (CP25/31), and transaction reporting (CP25/32). Continue Reading…
FIX Trading Community Urges Regulatory Alignment in Response to FCA Consultations
The FIX Trading Community has called for significant changes to UK financial regulation in its formal response to FCA consultations on the UK consolidated tape and transaction reporting. Executive Director Jim Kaye emphasised that harmonising UK reporting rules more closely with EU standards would reduce complexity, lower the reporting burden, and improve the quality of market data. By addressing current...
FIX Trading Community ramps up calls for regulatory changes on UK consolidated tape and transaction reporting
The FIX Trading Community has urged that changes should be made to UK financial regulation, following on from the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consultations on the UK consolidated tape (CT) and transaction reporting. Ahead of the introduction of the UK CT for equities, currently set to go live in 2027, the community emphasised concerns around post-trade transparency, outlined in six...
Chicago FIX Forum 2026
The FIX Trading Community invites you to attend the Chicago FIX Forum on Wednesday September 23rd 2026. Hosted by Connamara this event will bring together local market participants to discuss the issues and challenges impacting the electronic trading market in the region. Join us from 3pm for an afternoon of content, followed by a networking drinks reception.
24th Asia Pacific Trading Summit – The Trade
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…
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