FIX in the News

The Regulators have wanted an industry led Consolidated Tape, but it hasn’t happened. Neena Dholani, Global Marketing Programme Director, FIX Trading Community explains why. Some of the reasons why Consolidated Tape providers have not emerged include the lack of financial incentive for running a consolidated tape, the overly complex and strict regulatory environment, competition among non-regulated entities such as data...

The new feed will provide the framework to support new data types that the broker plans to make available later this year. London-based inter-dealer broker TP Icap has unveiled a new FIX protocol-based datafeed, dubbed Surfix, which will serve as the broker’s flagship delivery mechanism for all of its existing real-time data products, as well as new data types that TP...

The new date for the FIX EMEA Trading Conference is 18 September, after it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. By Hayley McDowell The FIX Trading Community has said it’s EMEA conference will go ahead in September, after organisers were forced to postpone the event due to the coronavirus pandemic. Originally due to take place on 12 March, the...

In 2007, a historic document landed on the desks of leaders around the globe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, assembled by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization, had published a report providing scientific data showing that it was “very likely” that human action was directly linked to climate change. The impact of industrialization on the...

FIX Trading Community, the non-profit standards body, aims to distribute new data flags for equities in the second quarter which could be integrated in a consolidated tape and create a golden source of European data. Graham Dick, FIX co-chair for consolidated tape working group and chief executive of Aquis Exchange Europe in Paris, told Markets Media that FIX set up...

ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is rapidly becoming the key topic of 2019. News that the European Commission has now formally incorporated new legislation on sustainability disclosures1 will only speed up adoption of ESG factors within the investment process. Asset managers will not only be required to integrate and disclose sustainability risks within their portfolios but will also be required...

Cybersecurity threats, not surprisingly, continue to be top of capital markets agenda but they are becoming increasingly difficult to thwart. They are not only growing in number but also in sophistication. Cutting edge technology is a critical part of the defence but both buy and sell-side firms must also bolster their organisational frameworks as well as educational training for employees....

To get a good deal in fast-moving FX markets, buy-side firms need to know the time. Some of them don’t Flavor Flav, the hype man for hip-hop superstars Public Enemy, famously wore a large clock around his neck, so he knew what time it was. He would not have been a success in modern foreign exchange markets, where participants increasingly...

Last week at the FIX Trading Community’s Americas Trading Briefing in Boston, broker-dealers, asset managers and vendors came together at an event hosted by State Street Global Markets to discuss key issues facing the financial services industry. Three panels convened, with topics ranging from the rise of outsourced trading to the FIX protocol’s role in post-trade processes. Attendees left with...