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Fixed Income: Press coverage

on November 09, 2018

big data bonds Buy-Side Analytics FinTech Fixed Income Market data trading

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

on October 27, 2018

bonds Buy-Side Analytics Buy-Side OMS compliance EMS Fixed Income trading

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OMS & EMS - recent press coverage

on October 24, 2018

Buy-Side OMS EMS FinTech Portware

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Sydney FIX Seminar: 13th October 2018

on October 11, 2018

FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP Sydney2018

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Sydney FIX Seminar: 13th October 2018

on October 03, 2018

FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP Sydney2018

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

on September 26, 2018

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Sydney FIX Seminar: October 2018

on September 05, 2018

FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP Sydney2018

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Technology Management, Political Intuition and Jon Haidt

on August 25, 2018

Agile CTO Doing IT right management Product Management

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ISO3166 country codes, wrapped up in a Java enum

on August 10, 2018

Doing IT right https://github.com/AlignmentSystems ISO Java

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Sydney FIX Seminar: October 2018

on August 03, 2018

FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP Sydney2018

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

on July 01, 2018

C++ Emscripten HTML5 WASM

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Windows equivalent of UNIX "touch" command

on July 01, 2018

Doing IT right Microsoft PowerShell

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Fintech: Blockchain bake-off

on June 21, 2018

blockchain buy vs build Buy-Side Analytics C++ Linux

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Virtual Box: Restoring a back-up alongside the original

on June 18, 2018

Doing IT right VirtualBox virtualisation

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Haskell

on June 18, 2018

FP functional programming Haskell quant

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

on June 17, 2018

Activity Based Costing buy vs build vendor management

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Julia

on June 14, 2018

buy vs build Doing IT right Julia quant

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Sydney FIX Seminar: October 2018

on May 15, 2018

FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP Sydney2018

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FIX Training in Singapore 2018

on May 09, 2018

Doing IT right FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP

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FIX Training in Paris 2018

on May 09, 2018

Doing IT right FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP

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FIX Training in Frankfurt 2018

on May 09, 2018

Doing IT right FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP

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FIX Training in Dublin 2018

on May 09, 2018

Doing IT right FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP

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FIX Training in Melbourne 2018

on May 09, 2018

Doing IT right FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP

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FIX Training in Sydney 2018

on May 09, 2018

Doing IT right FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP

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FIX Training in London 2018

on May 09, 2018

Doing IT right FIX FIX Testing and Certification FIXP Training

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

on May 07, 2018

Activity Based Costing buy vs build Doing IT right FIX FIX Orchestra FIXP ITCH/OUCH SBE SOFH

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MSFT & WASM

on April 10, 2018

C# C++ Doing IT right HTML5 Microsoft WASM

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

on March 13, 2018

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

on March 12, 2018

Bloomberg bonds buy vs build Buy-Side OMS equities MarketAxess Tradeweb trading vendor management

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Sydney FIX Seminar: October 2018

on March 01, 2018

Doing IT right FIIDL FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP Sydney2018

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

on February 24, 2018

Agile bonds buy vs build Buy-Side Analytics compliance Fixed Income innovation Java JavaScript MIFID2 node.js NoSQL RFQ RFS SQL

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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.

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

DevOps

The below picture ("Worked fine in Dev, Ops problem now) is one that I am sure many readers will have seen.

Technical Debt

A term that has come into popular usage recently is "Technical Debt". It's a new phrase for an old phenomenon.

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.

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...

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.

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:

Agile with an "A" and an "a"

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

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

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

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