Taming the FIX connection

With large firms now juggling dozens of FIX connections, industry organizations and vendors are trying to soothe the protocol’s first set of growing pains.

For the past seven years, the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol has been the wunderkind of the equities front office. By using this flexible structured language protocol, buy- and sell-side organizations significantly lowered the costs associated with equity trades and made great strides toward straight through processing and, in time, T+1. The protocol was hailed as such a success that the US FIX Committee (the regional committee responsible for the development of the FIX

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T+1: complacency before the storm?

This paper, created by WatersTechnology in association with Gresham Technologies, outlines what the move to T+1 (next-day settlement) of broker/dealer-executed trades in the US and Canadian markets means for buy-side and sell-side firms

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