Press Releases

FIX Trading Community Collaborates with the Investment Association at the 2019 London EMEA Trading Conference

London, New York, Hong Kong, 6thMarch 2019:FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced it is partnering with the Investment Association (IA) for the EMEA Trading Conference on 14thMarch 2019. This year’s conference for the first time, is also being held in association with a number of Trade Associations, including The...

FIX Trading Community Announces Verena Ross, Executive Director of ESMA, as Keynote Speaker for London EMEA Trading Conference

FIX Trading Community Announces Verena Ross, Executive Director of ESMA, as Keynote Speaker for London EMEA Trading Conference With agenda topics on Brexit, Equity, Fixed Income, Data, Executing in the new market eco structure and more London, New York, Hong Kong, 18February 2019:FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced Verena...

Brexit Working Group – Call for Participation

We are pleased to announce the development of a new FIX Brexit Working Group to assist FIX members and other industry participants to prepare for the challenges posed by the United Kingdom leaving the European Union.  The details on the scope of the group follow below. If you are interested in joining this working group, please contact the Program Office...

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...

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...

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...

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.

FIX Trading Community announces Release Candidate 3 of FIX Orchestra – the open standard for machine readable rules of engagement for all financial protocols

London, New York, Hong Kong March 13, 2018: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the publication of Release Candidate 3 for FIX Orchestra for public review, to help the industry move further towards standardisation and automation of rules of engagement and deliver major efficiencies to the counterparty onboarding process. This...

FIX Trading Community to celebrate 10-year anniversary of EMEA Trading Conference in March 2018

London, New York, Hong Kong, 7th March 2018: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced that it will be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the EMEA Trading Conference on 15th March 2018. This year high on the list of topics to discuss are: MiFID II – Month 3, What Have We...

FIX Trading Community releases guidelines to help firms meet cybersecurity requirements

London, New York, Hong Kong, 24th January 2018: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the release of the FIX-over-TLS (FIXS) standard and guidelines to assist users of the FIX Protocol meet certain security requirements. FIXS is part of a larger programme of work that the FIX Trading Community initiated...

FIX Trading Community releases Recommended Practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID II

FIX Trading Community releases Recommended Practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID II Providing definitive guidelines to assist firms with unbundling prior to January 2018 London, New York, Hong Kong, 15th November 2017: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today releases Recommended Practices for Commission Unbundling as required by MiFID...

FIX Trading Community releases Recommended Practices for Best Execution Reporting as required by MiFID II RTS 27 & 28

London, New York, Hong Kong, 18th October 2017: FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the heart of global financial trading, today announced the final release of its Recommended Practices for Best Execution Reporting as required by MiFID II RTS 27 & 28. The objective of this document is to provide guidance to entities regulated by MiFID II...