Special Report: FIX Community

The Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol began life in the early 1990s as an attempt to streamline financial transaction messaging between Salomon Brothers and Fidelity. It has since grown into the industry standard for transaction messaging between sell-side and buy-side practitioners worldwide, and is being adopted by exchanges and other execution venues as the messaging protocol for trading participants.

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16 Mar 2010
 
TSE’s Arrowhead Reduces Trading Costs, ITG Report Says

The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Arrowhead trading platform, which went live on January 4, has reduced the cost of trading Japanese equities. According to statistics collated by ITG, the cost of trading Japanese equities dropped 37% in January 2010 from December 2009, the largest month-on-month fall in more than 18 months.

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15 Mar 2010
 
UBS Follows Nomura’s Lead in Building European Dark MTF

UBS investment bank has become the second bank in Europe, after Nomura, to set up a dark multilateral trading facility (MTF). UBS is offering open membership and the addition of a central counterparty to mitigate risk and reduce costs.

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12 Mar 2010
 
29West and Exegy Collaborate for Enterprise Market Data Distribution

Messaging specialist 29West is collaborating with Exegy to integrate the latter’s hardware-accelerated ticker plant with its Latency Busters Messaging (LBM) middleware, in what the companies are pitching as a “strategic new offering” for enterprise-wide market data distribution. The tie-up provides 29West with new options for data feed handlers and Exegy with a high fan-out distribution mechanism, as well as a strong middleware partner.

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08 Mar 2010
 
Brazil’s Link Selects Progress Apama Algo Trading Platform

Progress Apama has signed up Link Investimentos, its 18th client in Brazil in just 18 months, for its algorithmic trading platform. The deal underscores Progress Apama’s assertion that the local electronic trading market is booming as investment banks and brokerages adopt next-generation trading technologies to enable algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies.

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08 Mar 2010
 
Cable & Wireless Targets High-Performance Crowd with Network Upgrade

Cable & Wireless Worldwide has responded to market demand for high-speed exchange connectivity with a new configuration of its International Ethernet Private Line (IEPL) network. The company reckons the newly configured network will meet the needs of high-performance traders by delivering high speed – up to 1Gb per second – as well as predictable and secure ethernet connections.

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05 Mar 2010
 
Andrew’s Blog - Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad

When we first heard the latest theory on the succession plan for the former Reuters – that is to say, the market data vendor now known as Thomson Reuters Markets – we thought it was just so much tittle-tattle. It was back in October or November, and the integration of Reuters with Thomson Financial had barely been completed at best (and in fact is probably still ongoing). Surely the time wasn’t yet right for a change at the top, given how recently the key positions had been set post-merger in 2007.

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04 Mar 2010
 

 
 

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