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FIX Recommended Practices - 24x7 Sessions

on September 06, 2023

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What does a 21st Century Exchange matching engine look like? part two...

on September 05, 2023

Eclipse exchange trading FIX FIXP Gradle Java matching engine SBE SOFH

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What does a 21st Century Exchange matching engine look like?

on August 30, 2023

comedy exchange trading FIX matching engine

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Fintech Interview: Kevin Mak, Co-Founder, Ironfly Technologies

on January 21, 2021

Buy-Side OMS EMS FinTech FIX innovation

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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

FIX FIX Network FIX Onboarding FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification

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What does Alignment Systems do...

on December 09, 2020

DevOps Doing IT right FinTech FIX FIX Network FIX Onboarding FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification list of fixed income trading venues Product Management

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Fintech Interview: Matthew Reid, Product Manager, SimCorp

on November 27, 2020

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MQTT 5.0 analytics platform, greenfield project build, part nine (Workflow)

on September 24, 2020

FIX FIXP MQTT SBE Workflow

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Rust - hello world!

on September 13, 2020

centos FIX Rust Rustlang

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Meta-Programming == code that writes code (creating Java code from XML and XSD)

on September 01, 2020

API FIX Java kdb Meta-Programming MQTT Python SBE Shakti

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Fintech Focus TV COVID-19 SPECIAL- John Greenan, CEO at Alignment Systems

on August 26, 2020

Doing IT right FinTech FIX FIX Orchestra

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Rust - FIX engine?

on August 26, 2020

FIX Rust

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FIX Orchestra - throwback to 7th July 2017

on July 07, 2020

FIIDL FIX FIX Network FIX Onboarding FIX Orchestra

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FIX Training Paris 2020

on April 15, 2020

FIX FIX Network FIX Onboarding FIX Orchestra FIX Training https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys Training

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FIX Training Johannesburg 2020

on April 15, 2020

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FIX Training Cape Town 2020

on April 15, 2020

FIX FIX Network FIX Onboarding FIX Orchestra FIX Training https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys Training

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FIX Training Brussels 2020

on April 15, 2020

FIX FIX Network FIX Onboarding FIX Testing and Certification FIX Training https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys Training

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FIX Training Amsterdam 2020

on April 15, 2020

FIX FIX Network FIX Onboarding FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIX Training https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys Training

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FIX Training Frankfurt 2020

on April 15, 2020

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Revolution #9

Fixed Income Trading: New venues ( How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? )

How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? [182] Last update 3rd January 2025] 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 global list of Fixed Income Trading Venues with a change log

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

What is a FIX engine? [Updated]

In a number of consulting roles over the years I've been asked this question. It's something that I still get asked so I'll describe my view. First, some history on the firms in the FIX engine market sector, then some narrative.

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.

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 a functionally similar feature exists within PowerShell.

Fintech Interview: Kevin Mak, Co-Founder, Ironfly Technologies

Sixth interview with interesting folks within Fintech, this one with Kevin Mak of Ironfly Technologies .

What does a 21st Century Exchange matching engine look like?

A regulated exchange is a big complicated way to facilitate one thing – bringing buyers and sellers together to trade in a legally and regulatory compliant manner. Behind that simple one line are a considerable number of other features that are required within the value chain (not necessarily within the same firm) For CSD based equities, a delivery-versus-payment mechanism to ensure that no-one loses all of their stock or cash. For a derivative exchange a clearing mechanism that can calculate IM and VM and ensure member margin accounts are maintained to a sufficient balance Market surveillance to ensure bad actors are kept out of the market FIX Connectivity for orders/executions FIX Connectivity “drop-copy” for post-trade workflow Binary market data over UDP/Multicast for latency sensitive firms Integrations with market data vendors such as Activ, Refinitiv, Bloomberg and many more Co-location offering KYC/AML/CFT processes to ensure regulatory compliance Persistent storage for instrum...

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:

Fintech Interview: Thomas Kim - CEO, Enfusion

A slight change of pace, a series of interviews with interesting people within the Fintech space. First up, Thomas Kim of Enfusion...

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