Profile of Ivy Schmerken

Editor at Large Member Since: 5/8/2014
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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.

NYSE Euronext Ups the Stakes on US Cash Equity Markets Monitoring

9/30/2013
The exchange operator is now live with ITRS Geneos, setting up a real-time dashboard to see across its matching engines and core customer connections.

Buy-Side Considers Replacing OMS/EMS Amid Market Structure Changes

9/27/2013
As fixed income and swaps go electronic, buy-side looks to pull together multiple asset classes on a single platform, according to a Greenwich Associates study.

Spread Betting Service Takes Off with "No Dealing Desk"

9/26/2013
InterTrader Direct launched spread trading for UK residents on its MT4 platform with multiple liquidity providers in forex, indices and commodities.

GFI's CTO Races Against Derivatives Deadlines

9/26/2013
With tight deadlines for rolling out new derivatives trading platforms, GFI Group's CTO, Jerry Dobner, is relying on the firm's in-house development staff to launch a swap execution facility by October.

Striking The Right Balance at Fidelity

9/25/2013
Fidelity Enterprise CTO Stephen Neff coordinates with other CIOs on technology standards and strikes a balance between individual business unit needs and the overall organization's IT goals.

REDI and Citadel Technology Tackle the "Holy Grail"

9/25/2013
Citing demand for an integrated order and execution management system on the buy side, Citadel Technology joined forces with REDI Global Technologies to combine their OMS/EMS products.

CFTC Puts SEF Approvals on the Fast Track

9/23/2013
Last week, the CFTC granted "cursory" approvals to several firms setting up swap execution facilities in compliance with the Oct. 2 deadline.

Oanda Hires Ex-Blackberry Executive as CTO

9/23/2013
The FX trading provider appointed Graeme Whittington as chief technology officer, directly from Blackberry, the Canadian mobile device maker.

DST Global Solutions Hires Bob Leaper to Expand New Biz in North America

9/19/2013
The tech provider also released Version 3.0 of Anova, its post-trade investment data management product for asset managers and wealth management.

Estimize Unveils a Weighted Consensus, Looks for Alpha in the Data

9/18/2013
The firm hired Vinesh Jha, the former head of quantitative research at StarMine, who also was executive director at Morgan Stanley's internal quant fund PDT, to head the project.

OPRA's Outage Traced to Software Upgrade, Raising Questions About Back Up

9/17/2013
The consolidated data feed for options markets had an outage yesterday, leading to a brief shutdown of trading across 12 options exchanges in the latest technical malfunction.

Are "Kill Switches" the Answer for Exchanges?

9/16/2013
An expert says exchanges must focus on policies and procedures and make sure their systems failover to a previous version, rather than stop trading.

What's Behind Tradeweb's Acquisition of BondDesk?

9/13/2013
The acquisition is a sign that the barriers between retail and institutional e-bond trading are coming down.

Precise Time Stamping In Demand for High Frequency Traders

9/12/2013
Apcon announced a new time stamping and packet slicing blade aimed at financial firms providing service level agreements to HFT shops.

Exchange CEOs Heading to SEC Meeting over Nasdaq Outage, SIPs

9/11/2013
After the Nasdaq outage, SEC officials should find out if the securities information processors are up to handling a new and complex role with the market-wide Limit Up-Limit Down mechanism.

Private Placement Market Attracts NYSE Euronext to Invest in Start Up

9/9/2013
NYSE Euronext acquires minority stake in ACE to develop an independent technology backbone for private placements that matches investors with issuers.

BATS Tests Disaster Recovery Site for US Businesses for 2nd Time in 2013

9/6/2013
The market operator's Kansas City-area employees reported to a DR site and conducted daily business from a remote location, mirroring what would happen in an actual disaster.

ICAP Files SEF Application with CFTC As Oct. 2 Deadline Nears

9/3/2013
The market operator said ICAP SEF will operate across multiple asset classes and offer trading through fully electronic or hybrid voice/electronic platforms.