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FINTECH SHOWDOWN: Who are the Fintech disruptors of tomorrow and how are they transforming financial trading?

on April 21, 2019

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Fintech Innovation, Improvisation and Kelly's Heroes

on December 17, 2017

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Fixed Income Leaders Summit Amsterdam 2017

on November 04, 2017

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Australia FIX Trading Conference, 19th October 2017, Midday. "Technology Innovation: Finding the Next Game Changers"

on October 13, 2017

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Big data methodology for the buy-side

on September 11, 2017

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Fixed Income Leaders Summit 2017, Amsterdam

on July 28, 2017

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FIX Orchestra: RC1 out now - next steps and looking ahead

on January 04, 2017

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OMS and EMS: Next moves?

on November 15, 2016

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Openfigi+ cURL = ?

on July 24, 2016

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Blockchain: After the POC

on July 08, 2016

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Investment Banking: Digital Transformation

on June 13, 2016

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Banks and Car companies

on February 13, 2016

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Fintech: Product Management, feedback loops and OODA

on November 19, 2015

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Fixed Income: New market for Corporate Bonds

on April 17, 2015

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Google, robots.txt and the “Search for Liquidity”: Fixed Income edition

on December 27, 2014

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FIIDL - FIX Interactive Interface Definition Language (part three)

on November 06, 2014

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Bootstrapping, FIIDL and the mesh exchange

on June 23, 2014

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FIIDL - FIX Interactive Interface Definition Language

on April 28, 2014

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FIIDL - FIX Interactive Interface Definition Language

on April 28, 2014

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Cannibalism and Creative Destruction

on April 22, 2014

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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 .

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:

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...

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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