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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? [166] Last update 13th August 2022 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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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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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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Fixed Income Trading: New venues ( How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? )

How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? [166] Last update 13th August 2022 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.

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

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.

The buy-side OMS, an appreciation part one...

A few years back I recall a decent post on one of my favourite topics, the buy-side OMS/EMS space What do you want an OMS for?

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.

Agile with an "A" and an "a"

Had some interesting conversations lately around "Agile" and "agile".

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

What is an Excel RTD Server?

Investment Banking and Innovation

“If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.” ― Mario Andretti

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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