Thursday, December 4, 2008
Passing the open source FIX baton … ~~~~ ” Smart Trade Technologies, the leader in liquidity management systems (LMS) for the financial markets, in association with the QuickFIX/J Team, developers of the 100% open source Java FIX engine, announced today that Steve Bate, an industry open-source software expert who helped develop, maintain, actively support and [...]
Thursday, November 20, 2008
The convergence of two open source projects that I’m very interested in…
FIX Protocol + + + Wikipedia
Lovely to see the FIX listing on Wikipedia… thanks to the clever souls who did the writing and editing…. it will be cool to watch the listing grow and become richer… user generated standards documented in user generated content… [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) is announcing the appointment of Mr. Ryan Pierce as FPL’s Technical Director. After conducting a public search, the FPL selection committee, comprised of leaders from the Global Steering Committee (GSC) and the Global Technical Committee (GTC), felt that Mr. Pierce not only possessed a high level of competence and experience in financial [...]
For FIX products the best product endorser you can get is Witold Sames.
Witold is Client Services Manager at Portware… he connects everybody with everything…
You want liquidity? Witold’s got the pipes for flow…
So here is his latest product endorsement…
~~~ “Through the FIX message board, I read about the free trial for FIX Eye, an analyzer [...]
Friday, September 26, 2008
U.S. Bond Market Basics & Recent Events
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Stanford Group, 1399 New York Ave, NW Ste. 375
Phone: (202) 508-3760
Directions: Metro - McPherson Square, 14 St exit. Building located on the corner of New York Ave and 13 St.
Speaker: Cate Long, Founder, Multiple-Markets
Speaker Bio: Cate has worked extensively with industry [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Pretty quiet at the SIFMA eTechnology conference today…
Many firms who usually are exhibiting aren’t here this year… signs of a credit market infrastructure contraction… vestiges of the old order… no new order yet…
The monthly call for the FIX Global Fixed Income Committee was postponed today due to market conditions…
The credit winter is coming… it [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
>> FIX, the standard for electronic trading of securities, has always had versioning issues… because it’s use is “voluntary” firms have tended to implement the standard, build infrastructure around it and connect to counterparties using a specific version… and then live in that version for a long time…
We encountered this legacy issue when we were promoting [...]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
I always believed that FIX, the standard for electronic trading of securities, had the flexibility and power to reorder the fixed income markets.
I’ve thought that FIX had the capacity to unify and standardize markets that were entirely dominated by the dealers…
Well… you believe and believe… and faith does sustain one… but real signals of change are [...]