This winter’s regional FIX Trading Community briefing, hosted by Morgan Stanley in New York, brought out veteran technology experts and raised fresh questions as the industry stares down twin-barreled trade reporting mandates on both sides of the Atlantic—with MiFID II’s imminent January 3, 2018 go-live date, and deepening drama behind a missed November 15milepost for...
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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...
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FIX Americas Industry Briefing 2017: In Search of the Flux Capacitor – Traders Magazine article
From the improbable upside-down plane scene in ‘Flight’ to musing over the state of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) in the future of ‘Bladerunner 2049’, this year’s FIX Trading Community event in Boston kicked off with references to the cinematic. But it was the keynote speaker’s analogy borrowed from ‘Back to the Future’—and,...
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Best Execution Reporting – IRP Journal Podcast
Its been 7 years in the making and MIFID 2 finally comes into force this January. One of the guiding principles and an expansion from MIFID 1 is Best Execution . On todays show we’ll talk about Best Execution Reporting with our guest Alex Wolcough a FIX Trading Community Contributor and Director at Appsbroker. http://irpjournal.com/podcast/irp-journal-podcast-4/...
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A Long and Detailed Checklist – Best Execution article
The FIX Trading Community established a number of MiFID Working Groups in May 2015. With just a few months of the year remaining, Tim Healy, Global Marketing and Communications Director, provides an update on FIX’s MiFID II initiative. What have been the areas of focus for the FIX Trading Community? In May 2015, the EMEA...
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FIX issues guide for MiFID II reporting of bond trades – The Desk article
FIX Trading Community, which sets the messaging standard for trading messages sent between buy-side and sell-side firms, has published the final Recommended Practices for Best Execution Reporting, ahead of MiFID II’s January 3 implementation date. The report provides guidance on how to populate the reports required under MiFID II, addressing the three main reporting requirements:...
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FIX Standardizes MiFID II Best Execution Reporting – MarketsMedia article
The FIX Trading Community, the non-profit, industry-driven standards body has released guidelines on best execution reports under new regulations which should simplify aggregation and make the data more useful. MiFID II, the regulations coming into force for financial markets in the European Union in January 2018, introduces new requirements for reporting best execution across asset...
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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...
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Tackling the Hot Topics: FIX Nordic Trading – article by Baymarkets
Tackling the Hot Topics: FIX Nordic Trading Briefing 2017 By Peter Fredriksson – CEO of Baymarkets Technology, Sweden Last month saw the return of the FIX Trading Community’s Nordic Trading Briefing to Sweden, the largest FIX event in the Nordics and now firmly established as a key date on the industry’s calendar. This year’s line-up...
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ISO Technical Management Board (ISO TMB) approves Jim Northey, FIX Global Technical Committee Co-chair representing the Americas, as the next TC 68 Chair- Linked In post
We learned last week that the ISO Technical Management Board (ISO TMB) that has approved Jim Northey, the FIX Global Technical Committee Co-chair representing the Americas, as the next ISO TC68 Chair. Jim previously served seven years as FIX Americas Regional Committee Co-chair and was the initial Chair of the Global Derivatives Committee. Jim will serve as...