Kevin Houstoun, Board Director, FIX Trading Community, Executive Chairman, Rapid Addition
Kevin leads Rapid Addition, a company specialising in Financial services software that delivers high-performance, low-latency electronic trading software. Rapid Addition provides messaging platform that works with FPGA hardware and software to support electronic financial messaging for applications such as price dissemination, order routing, smart order routing, sponsored DMA and many other electronic trading applications.
Kevin was one of the FIX Protocol pioneers and Co-Chair of the Global Technical Committee until 2012, when he stepped down to lead follow-up activities to the UK Government Foresight report on the Future of Computer Based Trading. Kevin occasionally advises the UK government on various aspects of Fintech, AI, Electronic trading and sustainable aviation. Kevin renewed his association with the FIX community by becoming one of the non-executive directors of FIX in 2021. He is a Research Associate at the UCL and LSE Systemic Risk Centre, https://www.systemicrisk.ac.uk/, focusing on technology and pattern reinforcement as risk factors.