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Technology strategy for the front-office. Software development, FIX Orchestra, Cryptocurrency, data-analytics, OMS, EMS, TCA, FIX and global electronic trading. Fixed income, equities, FX, ETD and OTC. Buy-side, sell-side, hedge funds, exchanges and execution venues. And MQTT and Internet-of-Things...

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Bloomberg Open Symbology, F2 & FIX Interactive Interface Definition Language - game-changer?

on August 25, 2015

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VirtualBox, Solace Systems Virtual Message Router and SolCache

on August 24, 2015

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Security, the right way

on August 24, 2015

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

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DevOps

on August 17, 2015

DevOps Doing IT right FinTech https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems Technical Debt

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Vendor relationship management

on August 03, 2015

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Middleware: RESTful interfaces ActiveMQ vs RabbitMQ vs Solace Systems

on August 02, 2015

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Microsoft Excel Wishlist: Please integrate with R

on August 01, 2015

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Blogging (Thought leadership) vs Marketing: Fight!

on July 30, 2015

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Fintech Innovation: What could a new buy-side OMS vendor be worth?

on July 22, 2015

buy vs build Buy-Side OMS https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems

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Contractor, Consultant, Advisor

on July 22, 2015

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Fintech Innovation: Follow-the-sun development

on July 17, 2015

DevOps FinTech https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems

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Fintech innovation: Bond trading

on July 15, 2015

bonds Buy-Side Analytics exchange trading FinTech FIX Fixed Income FIXP https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems Mesh Exchange

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Excel 2016: I (still) want my VBA 15.10.0 and 15.11.2

on July 15, 2015

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Docker vs HTML5

on July 14, 2015

Docker HTML5 https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems virtualisation

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Fintech innovation: Buy-side OMS

on July 10, 2015

Buy-Side OMS compliance FinTech https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems OEMS

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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

FIIDL FIX FIX Network FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems

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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

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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

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.

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.

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

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

Kill Switch

The kill switch is a requirement for a modern automated trading environment. The term is pretty generic and can include capabilities such as:

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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