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Fixed Income Trading: New venues ( How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? )

on December 27, 2014

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How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? [181] Last update 9th May 2023] A simple question came up recently in a conversation – how many new Fixed Income trading venues are there? I could not think of anywhere that maintained a comprehensive list, so I decided to try and put something together. A global list of Fixed Income Trading Venues with a change log

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FIX Recommended Practices - 24x7 Sessions

on September 06, 2023

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What does a 21st Century Exchange matching engine look like? part two...

on September 05, 2023

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What does a 21st Century Exchange matching engine look like?

on August 30, 2023

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Farewell my old friend...

on August 13, 2022

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Fintech: Dignity in defeat

on June 02, 2022

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Fintech Interview: Spence Maclean, Founder - Bond Auction

on April 11, 2022

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on November 26, 2021

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Pyth.network. Crawl, walk, run...

on November 26, 2021

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Solana - Hello World

on November 23, 2021

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Open Door Policy...

on October 22, 2021

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Fintech Interview: Sean Bowen, CEO - Push Technology

on June 18, 2021

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Fintech Interview: Kevin Mak, Co-Founder, Ironfly Technologies

on January 21, 2021

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2020 at Alignment Systems - catch-up on content you may have missed...

on December 21, 2020

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John Greenan joins FIX Global Technical Committee Governance Board

on December 17, 2020

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Fintech Interview: Jean-Philippe Malé, CEO, BidFX

on December 14, 2020

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Fintech Interview: Santiago Braje, CEO, Katana Labs

on December 11, 2020

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What does Alignment Systems do...

on December 09, 2020

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Fintech Explainer: Anti-Patterns and Job Titles

on December 06, 2020

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Fintech Interview: Matthew Reid, Product Manager, SimCorp

on November 27, 2020

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Fintech Interview: Andy Mahoney, Managing Director UK, FlexTrade

on November 20, 2020

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What does a 21st Century Exchange matching engine look like?

A regulated exchange is a big complicated way to facilitate one thing – bringing buyers and sellers together to trade in a legally and regulatory compliant manner. Behind that simple one line are a considerable number of other features that are required within the value chain (not necessarily within the same firm) For CSD based equities, a delivery-versus-payment mechanism to ensure that no-one loses all of their stock or cash. For a derivative exchange a clearing mechanism that can calculate IM and VM and ensure member margin accounts are maintained to a sufficient balance Market surveillance to ensure bad actors are kept out of the market FIX Connectivity for orders/executions FIX Connectivity “drop-copy” for post-trade workflow Binary market data over UDP/Multicast for latency sensitive firms Integrations with market data vendors such as Activ, Refinitiv, Bloomberg and many more Co-location offering KYC/AML/CFT processes to ensure regulatory compliance Persistent storage for instrum

Fixed Income Trading: New venues ( How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? )

How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? [181] Last update 9th May 2023] A simple question came up recently in a conversation – how many new Fixed Income trading venues are there? I could not think of anywhere that maintained a comprehensive list, so I decided to try and put something together. A global list of Fixed Income Trading Venues with a change log

Fintech Interview: Thomas Kim - CEO, Enfusion

A slight change of pace, a series of interviews with interesting people within the Fintech space. First up, Thomas Kim of Enfusion...

What's the difference between an EMS and an OMS?

Suggestion: it’s directional, asset-class and/or execution style related… If you got here from google - try also OMS and EMS

What does a 21st Century Exchange matching engine look like? part two...

How do you implement a matching engine from a clean sheet of paper design?

Middleware: RESTful interfaces ActiveMQ vs RabbitMQ vs Solace Systems

One use-case for Message Oriented Middleware is to provide a RESTful endpoint. This post looks at some options for how to do this for a specific use case:

Python versus VBScript

A diversion from the normal discourse on here, a language comparison. Disclosure: I have been using VBScript for years, I have designed a couple of systems that embedded the VBScript.ocx into a three-tier architecture system to provide an extensible method for creating business logic.

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