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Sell-side Fixed Income connectivity reference implementation

on June 20, 2015

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FIX Service Profile and FIX Interactive Interface Definition Language

on June 18, 2015

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Liquidation Risk

on June 18, 2015

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The next crisis in the Bond market...

on June 17, 2015

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HTML5 postMessage as a "form" constructor - gotcha!

on June 09, 2015

Doing IT right HTML5 https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems UI UX

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The Enterprise FinTech Start-up...

on June 09, 2015

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ISIN+MIC is not enough

on June 09, 2015

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Cursors and the evil that men do...

on June 02, 2015

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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? [164] Last update 21st April 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.

Technology and old tools

Is technology different from any other tool?

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

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 1

What is an Excel RTD Server?

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...

Fintech Interview: Spence Maclean, Founder - Bond Auction

Eighth interview with interesting people within Fintech, this time Spence Maclean of BondAuction . Spencer Maclean is a Founder of BondAuction Ltd. The company was formed in 2021 after he left his role as the Global Head of Bond Syndicate for Standard Chartered Bank where he spent 11 years in both a syndicate role as well as running the DCM team for Europe and Americas. Spencer started his career at Credit Suisse in the late 1990s before moving to Deutsche Bank and lastly SCB. He executed transactions for clients from the Corporate, Financial, Sovereigns and Supranational sectors. Who are you? I started my Debt Capital Markets journey when I was at Credit Suisse. Back at the time when retention bonds where the only game in town really. So I was the new issues trader responsible for the positions in credits all the way down from triple A all the way down to single B. Started to cut my teeth as a Syndicate manager on some of the triple A supranational names but quickly found my home in

Solace Systems & Node.js Market Data Terminal

We have looked at market data terminals and middleware . One of the challenges of building a modern web browser based application is that there is a requirement to push JavaScript to the client to provide an interactive user experience and almost always a requirement to serve up real-time streaming data.

Excel to R?

For a small project I have been dusting off my knowledge of linking S to Excel. The paid-for options include:

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