With Emma Quinn, Global Co-Head of Equity Trading, AllianceBernstein, and Hanno Klein, FIX Technical Director As part of series of articles by members of the FIX Trading Community, AllianceBernsteinās Global Co-Head of Equity Trading, (and Chair of the FIX Trading Communityās Board of Directors), Emma Quinn, quizzes FIX Technical Director, Hanno Klein, on just what the end of FIX versioning...
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November 11, 2021January 21, 2023
Fixed income: Bond trade efficiency potentially stalled by regulators
Posted by: Best Execution,Ā November 10, 2021 Regulators could stymie the only consensus model for firm pricing in fixed income, a market short of transparency. Dan Barnes reports. Regulators may throw a spanner in the works of bond trading automation, by including desktop trading tools within the definition of regulated trading venue. A ruling by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)...
October 29, 2021January 21, 2023
Log2Orchestra upgrade to Version 1.1
The FIX Global Technical Committee (GTC) announces the availability of a new version of the Log2Orchestra utility. Log2Orchestra is the first in a series of tools related to theĀ FIX Orchestra Technical Standard. It supports the automatic creation of an Orchestra XML file by using FIX engine logfiles as input. It is intended to be the starting point for someone who...
October 7, 2021January 21, 2023
Why Being a FIX Trading Community Member Matters
Why Being a FIX Trading Community Member Matters ā And Why You Should Contribute By Rich Evans, Global Co-chair of FIX Trading Community, and Lee Saba, Global Co-chair of FIX Trading Community and Head of Market Structure, Rialto Markets In an era of focus on good governance, every firmās contribution to the FIX community matters more than ever. FIX has...
September 14, 2021January 21, 2023
Next Generation of FIXimate available
FIXimate stands for FIX Interactive Message and Tag Explorer and is the visualization tool for the FIX Repository, which contains the meta-data for the FIX application and session layer. Introduction FIXimate makes the FIX Repository easily accessible and serves as a quick reference to lookup information about FIX messages, components, fields and values. FIXimate has been available for many years...
September 3, 2021January 21, 2023
Crackdown by regulators aims to protect investors entering a more digital world
Published by: MondoVisione 31/08/2021 A US Government crackdown on unregulated digital exchanges and stablecoins has long been on the cards, according to broker dealer and pioneering secondary market ATS operatorĀ Rialto Markets. But rather than trying to kill off this emerging sector, Rialto Marketsā Head of Market Structure Lee E Saba expects and welcomes an official drive to create a...
August 26, 2021January 21, 2023
EP265-EP269 added to FIX Latest
The FIX Global Technical Committee (GTC) announces the addition of five new Extension Packs to theĀ FIX Latest specification, the normative specification of the FIXĀ application layer, since the last blog post in November 2020. The artefacts for the individual Extension Packs described below are availableĀ here. EP265 Previous Quote Identifier This Extension Pack is a follow up toĀ EP253Ā Extensions for CAT/FIX Mapping. Some...
August 4, 2021January 21, 2023
FIX – Realising the potential of algo wheels
Published by: Traders Magazine 30th July 2021 Even though algo wheels have been around for five years and their adoption is now near universal, few are using them beyond the simplest of use cases, such as managing commission wallets or dealing with ānuisanceā orders. The slow path to realizing the full potential of algo wheels was the main topic of...
June 18, 2021January 21, 2023
Log2Orchestra available to FIX members
The FIX Global Technical Committee (GTC) is proud to announce the availability of Log2Orchestra. If you are a FIX member, you can request access from the FIX Program Office. It can then be invoked either via its own URLĀ or through the FIX website (“Log2Orchestra” in the new dropdown menu “Tools” or from the Orchestra landing page). You have to be...
June 8, 2021January 21, 2023
Update on routing transparency initiative
Published By : Traders Magazine | 2nd June 2021 With Enrico Cacciatore, Head of Market Structure & Trading Analytics, Voya Investment Management, and Tim Sargent, CEO, CalcGuard Technologies What have been some challenges as the Routing Transparency Initiative (RTI) has moved forward? ENRICO CACCIATORE: The biggest challenge for RTI is the inherent lack of standardized data and lack of data...