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Exchanges and their matching engines

on February 20, 2017

buy vs build equities exchange trading vendor management

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

on January 04, 2017

buy vs build disruption FIX FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP

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FIX: Co-located onboarding?

on January 03, 2017

FIX FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP

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Intelligent Trading Summit (ITS) London, February 2nd 2017, Hilton Tower Bridge

on December 24, 2016

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Australia Super funds OMS EMS

on December 24, 2016

Australia Buy-Side OMS EMS OEMS vendor management

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SQL Server on Linux

on November 24, 2016

Linux Microsoft SQL

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FX Trading: New venues

on November 22, 2016

fx forward fx spot fx swap https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys NDF trading

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Bloomberg, again

on November 20, 2016

Bloomberg bonds https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems

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OMS and EMS: Next moves?

on November 15, 2016

buy vs build Buy-Side OMS disruption EMS FIX FIX Network FIXP sell-side

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Orchestra - the full-stop at the end of FIX...

on October 18, 2016

FIX FIX Orchestra FIX Testing and Certification FIXP management Strategy vendor management

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FIX, FIX Engines and RHCP

on October 18, 2016

FIX FIXP management marketing Strategy

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Fintech agile Sales, Marketing, Product Strategy and Devops model

on August 22, 2016

DevOps FinTech innovation management marketing Strategy

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Microservices and Daltrey, Townshend and McLaren

on August 16, 2016

architecture buy vs build DevOps Fidessa microservices sell-side Strategy trading

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OMS & FIX - a walled garden?

on August 14, 2016

buy vs build Buy-Side OMS EMS exchange trading Market data OEMS trading

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Excel REST API vs Ethercalc

on August 08, 2016

Excel Excel Industrialisation Microsoft

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Golang...

on August 08, 2016

blockchain buy vs build FIXChain geek Golang https://github.com/AlignmentSystems

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Fixed Income Liquidity: Sovereign Wealth funds to the rescue?

on August 08, 2016

bonds buy vs build innovation liquidity sell-side trading

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Investment Banking and Innovation

on August 08, 2016

Agile buy vs build digital FinTech innovation Strategy

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4th Annual European Electronic Bond Trading Forum

on August 03, 2016

Activity Based Costing bonds conferences liquidity Market data trading

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Barcelona Fixed Income Leaders Summit, 9th November 2016

on August 02, 2016

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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 .

Buy-side analytics: Beyond TCA

Within most buy-sides there is a realisation of a need for TCA. TCA is something we have covered before here . There is also a recognised need for performance measurement and attribution. This post covers those topics yet has a focus on a new analytic area for buy-sides - behavioural analytics.

Matching Engines: An overview

Matching engines are at the core of electronic trading. In many cases the actual software is old and written using techniques, patterns and languages from the past. We've considered some enhancements to matching engines before " Matching engine for corporate bonds? ".

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:

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