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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? [158] Last update 2nd September 2021 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 list of Fixed Income Trading Venues.

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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

Buy-Side OMS EMS FinTech FIX innovation

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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

DevOps Doing IT right FinTech FIX FIX Network FIX Onboarding FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification list of fixed income trading venues Product Management

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Fintech Explainer: Anti-Patterns and Job Titles

on December 06, 2020

Anti-Patterns FinTech Patterns

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Fintech Interview: Matthew Reid, Product Manager, SimCorp

on November 27, 2020

Buy-Side OMS cloud FinTech FIX IBOR innovation management Product Management

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Fintech Interview: Andy Mahoney, Managing Director UK, FlexTrade

on November 20, 2020

Buy-Side OMS EMS FinTech innovation management Product Management

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Fintech Interview: Thomas Kim - CEO, Enfusion

on November 17, 2020

Buy-Side OMS EMS FinTech innovation management Strategy

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CentOS 8 and CodeGen

on October 19, 2020

centos FOSS VirtualBox virtualisation

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Fintech: Forget MVP, MCP is what your would-be clients want...

on October 06, 2020

buy vs build FinTech MCP MVP Technical Debt trading

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RAML...Atom...CentOS

on October 02, 2020

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Fintech explainer: Why your fintech is not twitter

on October 01, 2020

business model buy vs build FinTech monetisation Product Management

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Fintech Explainer: Pricing (part two)

on September 29, 2020

Economics FinTech Product Management

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Fintech Explainer: Pricing

on September 24, 2020

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MQTT 5.0 analytics platform, greenfield project build, part nine (Workflow)

on September 24, 2020

FIX FIXP MQTT SBE Workflow

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MQTT 5.0 analytics platform, greenfield project build, part eight (Payload)

on September 21, 2020

Java kdb MQTT SBE

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Why I like DuckDuckGo and Bing and not Google

on September 18, 2020

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

How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? [158] Last update 2nd September 2021 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 list of Fixed Income Trading Venues.

FX Trading: New venues

We've already done this for Fixed Income, so by popular request, a list of FX Trading Venues. This is a work-in-progress, please feel free to correct/amend by adding comments...

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

Fintech Interview: Jean-Philippe Malé, CEO, BidFX

Fifth interview with interesting folks within Fintech, this one with Jean-Philippe Malé of BidFX .

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.

What is a FIX engine? [Updated]

In a number of consulting roles over the years I've been asked this question. It's something that I still get asked so I'll describe my view. First, some history on the firms in the FIX engine market sector, then some narrative.

kdb+ versus MongoDB versus McObject versus OneTick versus...

For a project I am assisting a client in a beauty parade to be followed by a bake-off if required (in plain English, search and selection of a software product followed by a limited implementation to allow hands-on evaluation of the tooling).

Excel RTD Server implementation in C#......Part 1

I have not written much C# recently but I've had two conversations recently on the topic of RTD Server implementations so I thought I'd try and refresh my memory.

EMS: Staging is not an EMS

Within the world of Fixed Income trading there is some dispute around what constitutes an EMS. My view is that the buy-side Fixed Income EMS is a product that sophisticated buy-sides would love, but which does not exist.

Excel RTD Server implementation in C#......Part 1

What is an Excel RTD Server?

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