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Technology strategy for the front-office. Software development, FIX Orchestra, Cryptocurrency, data-analytics, OMS, EMS, TCA, FIX and global electronic trading. Fixed income, equities, FX, ETD and OTC. Buy-side, sell-side, hedge funds, exchanges and execution venues. And MQTT and Internet-of-Things...

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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 18th November 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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QuestDB

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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Fintech Interview: Thomas Kim - CEO, Enfusion

on November 17, 2020

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CentOS 8 and CodeGen

on October 19, 2020

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

on October 06, 2020

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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

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Fintech Explainer: Pricing (part two)

on September 29, 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 18th November 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.

Solana - Hello World

The Rust language is on the up, memory safety and the buzz in the community are attractive when looking at long term investment in technology. And for a better FIX engine ... While looking at different DLT technologies Solana is interesting as it supports Rust alongside C and C++ Looking at this alongside pyth.network - see what market data distribution could look like within a decentralised model - no more "we need Bloomberg , Refinitiv , FactSet , Wind etc..." simply head over to https://docs.pyth.network/consumers/client-libraries and start coding. Or pay some to do the legwork... And here's the Hello World for Solana on Ubuntu inside VirtualBox...

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

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...

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

Having stood up a Solana client , time to look at Pyth.network . If done right, this will be a huge threat to the market data incumbents...

Open Door Policy...

For many years I have had an open door policy, if someone gets in touch and wants to talk I will spend an hour on the conversation. Some folks call this "pay-it-forward". I have always viewed it as good business. One person with whom I spent an initial hour attentively took notes of the meeting. A number of years later I saw he had moved jobs and I congratulated him. Shortly afterwards he sent this message: Hi John, I have a notebook with advice people have given me over the years. Yours is my favourite. I follow it as a principle and live by it. Thank you for your constant support and friendship over the years. I would love to meet up when you are next in town. The note is shown below...

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.

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:

Excel RTD Server implementation in C#......Part 2

This is a follow up to Excel RTD Server implementation in C#......Part 1

Shakti - replacement for kdb+ ? And MQTT

The main (very large) brain behind kdb+, Arthur Whitney , has been working on a new project since January 2019. The firm is called Shakti which is: " Shakti is designed to manage streaming, in-memory and historical data in any format. Structured data, such as relational or time-series data can co-exist alongside, semi-structured and unstructured data creating a single platform for storage and analytics. Our technology takes advantage of the latest in hardware advancements from multi-core architectures, CPU cache, RAM, SSD and Intel® Optane™ technology all the way to cloud storage.

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