Profile of Ivy Schmerken
Editor at Large
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Ivy is Editor-at-Large for Advanced Trading and Wall Street & Technology. Ivy is responsible for writing in-depth feature articles, daily blogs and news articles with a focus on automated trading in the capital markets. As an industry expert, Ivy has reported on a myriad number of topics including high frequency trading, algorithmic trading strategies, market structure, electronic trading in fixed income , colocation in data centers, Dodd-Frank regulation and the new derivatives landscape. Ivy meets with software companies and other innovators and writes about cloud computing, OMS/EMSs and other financial technologies.
Articles by Ivy Schmerken
posted in February 2010
2/26/2010
With the Obama Administration moving forward on the so-called Volcker Rule to limit banks from conducting proprietary trading, some technology vendors see an opportunity to serve bank spin outs.
2/26/2010
SRL will use Progress Apama's CEP platform to offer one-stop shop for quantitative and algorithmic trading to brokers and hedge funds.
2/25/2010
In a video interview, Editor-at-Large Ivy Schmerken spoke with Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of Tabb Group, about the likelihood of the U.S. Senate passing climate change legislation this year.
2/25/2010
Dublin-based asset manager chooses Price-It Excel to price and risk manage its inflation linked derivatives business.
2/25/2010
Mitsubishi will use Brady as a single integrated platform for both physical and derivatives trading, gaining improved exchange connectivity and regulatory compliance.
2/24/2010
Jose Marques is heading up algo development and DMA trading at Deutsche Bank.
2/23/2010
CNBC is reporting that Senator Chris Dodd is unlikely to unveil financial reform legislation this week, to negotiate with Republican Sen. Bob Corker over the consumer protection piece.
2/23/2010
Turquoise will offer trading in the Hungarian and Czech securities cleared through EuroCCP from Feb. 26 onward.
2/22/2010
Launches FX Inside Alpha for firms to develop algorithms, backtest and host them in a single environment.
2/22/2010
About 70 percent of hedge funds have altered their operations to reduce counterparty risk, reports Omgeo-sponsored/Greenwich Associates study.
2/19/2010
Bloomberg adds metrics such as most read Bloomberg-only stories and "news heat" — analysis of the most-written about companies and topics.
2/18/2010
I didn't see the Options Symbology Initiative landing on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or other media outlets.
2/18/2010
Ticonderoga also plans to cover brokerage firms, exchanges, market structure and e-finance, within its recently established financial services sector.
2/17/2010
Boutique investment bank upgrades its trading technology with Fidessa hosted trading platform.
2/16/2010
2/16/2010
Should the average American with a 401-K worry about the rise of quants on Wall Street? That is the focus of a new book, "The Quants," by Scott Patterson, staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal.
2/12/2010
Baird will provide Fox River's execution software, Fox Trader, to its institutional equity clients.
2/11/2010
The Warehouse Trust Company will be regulated by the
Federal Reserve System to bring increased transparency and mitigation to the global OTC credit derivatives market.
2/10/2010
Aegisoft's Athena product line brings exchange connectivity and expands Thomson Reuter's target market into buy-side quants and hedge funds doing algo trading.
2/10/2010
Recognizes OptionEase's expertise in using Microsoft technologies to deliver SaaS applications for compliance with complex FAS 123 regulations.
2/9/2010
Incubator of high frequency trading teams taps NG, formerly with Gottex Fund Management, for risk management.
2/9/2010
Canadian ATS has tripled its volume in the past two months, with its low-cost pricing model and connectivity, said Tactico.
2/8/2010
Maintains that interoperability can be safe for CCPs across Europe, and this model withstood the Lehman default.
2/5/2010
The new service is geared to meeting the bandwidth, speed, low latency and security demands of the financial community.
2/4/2010
Chicago-based Jaypee International has been approved as an associate trade member of the London Metal Exchange Ltd., adding to the exchange memberships of its worldwide affiliates.
2/3/2010
ISE to capitalize on Hanweck's high-Performance GPU-Based computing, and low-latency market data for options analytics.
2/2/2010
BGCantor says on-demand financial market data can reduce costs for customers in the middle and back office.
2/2/2010
SmartPool reports gains in European blue-chip indices and Nordic region.
2/2/2010
A.I.G. Financial Products was not the only subsidiary of American International Group trading risky derivatives, according to an article in the New York Times yesterday.
2/1/2010
Online marketplace for whole loan portfolios hires former executives from Fannie Mae, GMAC Residential Capital and Capmark Financial.
2/1/2010
CME will utlize DataVision for pricing and intra-day risk management
in the clearing and settlement of CDS trades.