Category: FIX in the News

Laurence Jones, Americas regional director at FIX Trading Community, speaks with Anna Lyudvig at Traders Magazine about the move to T+1 settlement for transactions in US cash equities, corporate debt and unit investment trusts, and how the FIX Trading Community is helping its members prepare for the new settlement cycle. //bit.ly/3KnShcs

Investors have been calling for a consolidated tape in Europe, which gives them aggregated data on trading volumes and prices throughout the region in one place, for more than a decade without success. However, there is now optimism that a useful consolidated tape will be developed in the coming years as regulators have been pushing...

Infinite Intelligence: Matthew Coupe: data standards in fixed income should keep pace with automation Matthew Coupe, Co-Chair  of the EMEA Regional Committee, spoke with Rajeeb Gurung from Infinite Intelligence at the FIX Trading Conference in March 2023 about the impact of data and automation on the fixed income market. CONTINUE READING…  //bit.ly/42KrLBi

From Laurence Jones, FIX Americas Regional Director & Co-Chair, FIX Global Post-Trade Working Group FIX recently attended the FIA SIFMA Asset Management Derivatives Conference, a 3-day event held in Laguna, CA. The 8th year of the event, it continues to have a great agenda covering trading & execution, clearing and collateral, risk management as well...

FIX Orchestra was conceived as machine readable rules of engagement between counterparties. Jim Kaye of FIX Trading Community discusses what problem FIX Orchestra was meant to solve and how it can help trading firms realize efficiencies. Please Click on the following Link : https://www.fixglobal.com/fix-orchestra-in-focus/

IFLR: Mifid II reviews in 2023, part one Thomas Helm, senior journalist at IFLR, looks out at the key themes for the year ahead in regard to the on-going Mifid reviews. The extent of the divergence between the UK and the EU is set to remain the overarching theme of the regulation into 2023. Matthew...

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is an increasingly important aspect of financial markets, but challenges remain, particularly in light of the continued lack of coherent regulatory guidelines and the absence of accurate and consistent data. Please see articles featuring FIX on this topic here. Click “Continue reading…” to read the articles. Best Execution: Sustainable...

Ever increasingly complexity and volumes in the market mean that operational resiliency is front of mind for market participants. Here you can find a number of articles on market outages featuring insight from FIX. Click “Continue reading…” to read the articles. Financial News: UK watchdog says LME ‘needs to learn lessons’ after nickel chaos leads...

Articles featuring thoughts from members of the FIX Trading Community on trends in trading and market structure, including the rise of bots, the electronification of the fixed income market and the need for better efficiency in equity markets. Click “Continue reading…” to read the articles. The TRADE: Rise of the bots – not there yet,...

Media coverage of our trading conferences in EMEA where topics include crypto, retail trading, and consolidated tape were debated among panellists. Click “Continue reading…” to read the articles.   Traders Magazine: FIX EMEA Themes: Consolidated Tape, Crypto, Retail Markets Media: FIX EMEA Themes: Consolidated Tape, Crypto, Retail Finextra: What a day! Fix Emea 2022 in...