Press Releases

Financial services sector joins forces to accelerate capital markets electronification

1 December 2025 – FIX Trading Community, together with the Investment Association (IA) and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), have today announced a crossindustry taskforce to create electronic communication standards and promote industry-wide solutions to make equity capital raising – such as IPOs and secondary share placements –more efficient, transparent and digital. The new Equity Issuance Working...

FIX Trading Community calls for sweeping changes to ETF market

FIX Trading Community calls for sweeping changes to ETF market The capital markets industry association is calling for participants for a new ETF Working Group which aims to standardise trading practices for ETFs 25 November, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, is inviting ETF market participants to join a new Working...

FIX Trading Community proposes to make EU markets bigger, better 

FIX Trading Community proposes to make EU markets bigger, better     The capital markets industry association has called for new trading practices and FIX Protocol extensions to improve transparency and accessibility of European markets     4 November, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, has published a whitepaper, FIXing Europe – How the European Consolidated Tape can radically improve the...

Axes falling on bond trading: FIX Trading Community

14 October, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has committed to working with the global bond trading community and the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) to improve the efficiency and quality of bond trading. The joint effort, spearheaded by the FIX Fixed Income Axe Standards Working Group, will...

FIX publishes new data standards for European capital markets

12 August, 2025 (London): The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has published Market Model Typology (MMT) 5.0, which will help trading firms ready themselves for the pending European Consolidated Tape. MMT is the independent industry data standard for classifying trades used across European capital markets, ensuring all firms – from...

FIX APAC Webinar on Overnight Trading in US

The lively discussion highlighted the exciting opportunities (and some of the challenges) that overnight trading in the US is bringing to retail and institutional traders. Many thanks to our speakers for sharing their insights, Paul Adcock (24 Exchange), Josh Burch (NYSE), Jaclyn Gude (DTCC), Brian Hyndman (Blue Ocean ATS), Jason Wallach (BRUCE), and FIX APAC co-chair Murrough O’Brien for moderating....

EC Consultation 2025 Press Release

PRESS RELEASE – FIX Trading Community responds to European Commission targeted consultation on development and integration of EU capital markets FIX Trading Community has submitted its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the integration of EU capital markets, under the broader framework of the Savings and Investments Union (SIU) strategy. Representing a global community of >280 members firms...

The Finance Hive and FIX Trading Community announce strategic Collaboration to transform Industry Dialogue into Action

The FIX Trading Community and The Finance Hive are excited to announce a new strategic partnership, uniting two influential communities dedicated to enhancing trading practices, fostering transparency, and driving meaningful industry progress. Both organisations share core commitments to openness, collaboration and the power of collective action in addressing pressing industry challenges. The FIX Trading Community, as a leading global standards...

Rapid Addition and Adaptive unveil partnership to enhance FIX capabilities

“With this new partnership, we will be able to go beyond the capabilities of standard FIX engines, creating even more comprehensive, agile and robust solutions for capital markets firms,” Matt Barrett, chief executive and co-founder of Adaptive tells The TRADE.

FIX Antenna

NET Core allows developers to work with the latest well supported Microsoft framework and help strategically position client’s applications for the future. The FIX Antenna .NET Core API follows robust, tested by time FIX Antenna Java API (API Reference). The FIX Antenna . NET Core benefits include the ability to generate structured messages and to manipulate the message’s content via...

Canadian Annual Derivatives Conference Summary Jun 2023

Laurence Jones FIX Americas Regional Director FIX recently attended the Canadian Annual Derivatives Conference, Canada’s leading derivatives conference which is a 1-day event held in Montreal, Canada. Hosted by TMX, the event had an agenda full of industry-relevant topics covering trading & execution, digital assets, regulatory drivers as well as changes to interest rates in the Canadian market. Add in...

FIX Trading Community launches Orchestra Server

The FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, is pleased to announce the launch of Orchestra Server as a benefit to its members. Orchestra Server allows users to create documentation for their messaging interfaces (‘rules of engagement’) based on FIX’s Orchestra standard. The system, based on the ETP S-Box service from Esprow,...