Fixed Income: Press coverage

Links to external sites:

Amsterdam Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2018 6th-8th November

Details below:

OMS & EMS - recent press coverage

A few interesting links:

Sydney FIX Seminar: 13th October 2018

On Saturday 13th October 2018 in Sydney...

Sydney FIX Seminar: 13th October 2018

On Saturday 13th October 2018 in Sydney...

Fintech consolidation - the future (and T.E Lawrence)

Fintech is a field that is expanding and changing rapidly.  Recently your author spoke at the SimCorp International User Community Meeting in Milan. The topic was "Front-Office Vendor Consolidation, what it means for the buy-side?"

Sydney FIX Seminar: October 2018

Around the time of the FIX Conference in October 2018 in Sydney, Alignment Systems will be running a private seminar on the current state of FIX.  Admission by invitation only.  If you are based in Australia or New Zealand and would like to hear more, please get in contact by email - sydney2018 (at) alignment hyphen systems dot com

Technology Management, Political Intuition and Jon Haidt

An ever keen reader of The Economist, your author noticed 

"Jonathan Haidt's work on political intuitions helps explain how the President enrages them. Mr Haidt argues that political intuition is like riding an elephant. The jockey, who represents reason, may think he is in charge, but he sits on top of a more powerful beast, moral intuition, that goes where it will." -- The Economist July 14th "America's Democrats" special report

ISO3166 country codes, wrapped up in a Java enum

As the title says, the ISO3166 country codes wrapped up in a Java enum. On GitHub for your coding pleasure...
https://github.com/AlignmentSystems/ISO3166

Sydney FIX Seminar: October 2018

Around the time of the FIX Conference in October 2018 in Sydney, Alignment Systems will be running a private seminar on the current state of FIX.  Admission by invitation only.  If you are based in Australia or New Zealand and would like to hear more, please get in contact by email - sydney2018 (at) alignment hyphen systems dot com

Web Assembly & Streaming Data for Financial Markets (HTML5, OMS, EMS, Market Data): proof-of-concept code on GitHub

Using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/C_to_wasm and a very simple node.js/express set up we have created a very simple proof-of-concept:

https://github.com/JohnGreenan/WebAssemblyPOC

Windows equivalent of UNIX "touch" command

A fairly standard operation in *nix world is the command touch.  Touch changes file dates, so it's an easy way to kick off backup jobs or similar that use file modification times. Windows doesn't have an exact analogue, but the same feature exists within PowerShell.

Fintech: Blockchain bake-off

Option (A)

Ubuntu + Ethereum C++

Virtual Box: Restoring a back-up alongside the original

The use of VirtualBox is perfect for consultants, where each client environment can be created on a dedicated VirtualBox environment. No embarrassing moments when client A sees something related to client B...

Haskell

Glasgow's finest...

Fintech: Vendor Relationship Management: Follow the white rabbit...

Vendor Relationship Management - what is it and why does it matter?
[This is a summary of one topic within a white paper prepared for a client.  With their permission it has been summarised and reproduced here.]

Julia

Interesting language for quantitative analytics...

Sydney FIX Seminar: October 2018

Around the time of the FIX Conference in October 2018 in Sydney, Alignment Systems will be running a private seminar on the current state of FIX.  Admission by invitation only.  If you are based in Australia or New Zealand and would like to hear more, please get in contact by email - sydney2018 (at) alignment hyphen systems dot com

FIX Training in Singapore 2018

Further to a client request, we are now offering custom FIX training in Singapore in 2018 and in other locations.  Sample agenda below, we can work with you to refine and focus on areas of interest.  Contact us at enquire@alignment-systems.com

FIX Training in Paris 2018

Further to a client request, we are now offering custom FIX training in Paris in 2018 and in other locations.  Sample agenda below, we can work with you to refine and focus on areas of interest.  Contact us at enquire@alignment-systems.com

FIX Training in Frankfurt 2018

Further to a client request, we are now offering custom FIX training in Frankfurt in 2018 and in other locations.  Sample agenda below, we can work with you to refine and focus on areas of interest.  Contact us at enquire@alignment-systems.com

FIX Training in Dublin 2018

Further to a client request, we are now offering custom FIX training in Dublin in 2018 and in other locations.  Sample agenda below, we can work with you to refine and focus on areas of interest.  Contact us at enquire@alignment-systems.com

FIX Training in Melbourne 2018

Further to a client request, we are now offering custom FIX training in Melbourne in 2018 and in other locations.  Sample agenda below, we can work with you to refine and focus on areas of interest.  Contact us at enquire@alignment-systems.com

FIX Training in Sydney 2018

Further to a client request, we are now offering custom FIX training in Sydney in 2018 and in other locations.  Sample agenda below, we can work with you to refine and focus on areas of interest.  Contact us at enquire@alignment-systems.com

FIX Training in London 2018

Further to a client request, we are now offering custom FIX training in London in 2018 and in other locations.  Sample agenda below, we can work with you to refine and focus on areas of interest.  Contact us at enquire@alignment-systems.com

FIX Orchestra + SBE + FIXP + SOFH = How FIX joins the 21st Century?

Regular readers will no doubt have read about the joys of FIX Orchestra here, here, here and an overview here. 

FIX has always been a protocol that's not a rigid protocol, started by Fidelity and Salomon Brothers to trade US Equities and then pulled kicking and screaming into other asset classes, workflows and geographies.

MSFT & WASM

Looks like Microsoft are throwing the weight of C# into WASM

Ah but... An (imaginary) rebuttal from Block Trading and Fixed Income Venues

Following on from our earlier post Block Trading Venues and Fixed Income Trading Venues: Twins, separated at birth? an (imaginary) rebuttal on behalf of Block Trading and Fixed Income Trading Venues...

Block Trading Venues and Fixed Income Trading Venues: Twins, separated at birth?

Try and connect a buy-side OMS to a number of equity Block Trading venues...

Sydney FIX Seminar: October 2018

Around the time of the FIX Conference in October 2018 in Sydney, Alignment Systems will be running a private seminar on the current state of FIX.  Admission by invitation only.  If you are based in Australia or New Zealand and would like to hear more, please get in contact by email - sydney2018 (at) alignment hyphen systems dot com

Fixed Income Data Analytics: Buy-Side MiFID 2 best-execution

MiFID2 uses a standard of "sufficient". Our view is that this means you need real-time data ingestion, persistence and analytics when evaluating which brokers to select for an RFQ and for post-trade justification to internal or regulatory audit.