FIX in the News

FIX has been at the forefront of electronic trading for over two decades now. Whilst its roots, for obvious reasons, are within technology departments, it has been a combination of technicians and those on the business side that have pushed its evolution. For the full article, please click here.

Buy- and sell-side firms can be highly successful when they stretch the FIX protocol beyond the front office, says FIX protocol pioneer and advocate Scott Atwell, who is the manager for FIX  trading and connectivity at American Century Investments. For the full article, please click here.

When I was writing a preview of the year ahead for 2016, I wrote that 2016 was likely to be busy and volatile given how January was unfolding. The year has flown by and for the FIX Trading Community it has been marked by a number of successful events, new working groups, ongoing work in initiatives and increasing interest from...

FIX Trading Community has released new guidelines for the use of FIX in post-trade processing for multiple asset classes and a common post-trade framework, developed to reduce risk and costs. For the full article, please click here.

Some of the largest asset managers have signed up for Dealogic Connect, which automates the process for equity offerings, as the UK regulator has pushed for the adoption of technology in primary markets. FIX Trading Community, the non-profit body that develops and promotes the FIX family of standards, started discussions  on automating initial public offerings in UK in 2014 to...

FIX has been at the forefront of electronic trading for over two decades now. It is the de facto standard for multi asset trading across the globe. From its earliest incarnation as a protocol for routing orders between market participants, the ethos of collaboration and standardisation has been clear. In the financial industry, it is sometimes rare to see business...

This article describes how the industry is responding to the challenge by creating new front-office tools to process the large volume of electronic data that will become a part of the post-MiFID II world order. It further explores how standardisation and collaboration can reduce the cost of implementation within existing, often heterogeneous front-office environments. For the full article, please click...

The last event in the EMEA region ahead of the long-awaited summer took place at the BT Tower on 6th July. The topic for the evening “Role of Automation in Fixed Income Execution” was not one that people would traditionally associate with FIX. In fact, the panel agreed to change the topic slightly to “Role of Automation in Non-Equities Execution”...

FIX has been at the forefront of electronic trading for over two decades now. It is the de facto standard for multi asset trading across the globe. From its earliest incarnation as a protocol for routing orders between market participants, the ethos of collaboration and standardisation has been clear. In the financial industry, it is sometimes rare to see business...

ESMA new edict on ISINs has split the industry but initiatives are underway to find solutions. However, it will still require a significant infrastructure upheaval for those firms that have never used the unique code. Lynn Strongin looks at both sides. For the full article, please click here.

Standards body FIX Trading Community has announced the release of Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) version 1.0 Draft Standard, a non-proprietary binary message encoding to meet the latency demands of high frequency trading and market data. For the full article, please click here.

As blockchain technology moves into the financial marketplaces, Fund Technology catches up with Ron Quaranta to learn how funds can leverage blockchain technology and what is FIX Protocol engagement in this disruptive technology. For the full article, please click here.