Profile of Ivy Schmerken

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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 March 2004

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Newsmakers

3/26/2004
NYSE Taps Pastina for Trading Floor; Futures Pro Joins Hotspot FXi; Merrill's Bottega Moves to CSFB; People on the Move.

Regulators Play Hardball with Soft Dollars

3/26/2004
Buy-side firms are facing more disclosure requirements and possible curtailment of soft-dollar commissions applied to investment technology.

New Kids on the Block

3/26/2004
Two new players are offering block-execution systems to buy-side institutions. Can they succeed in a crowded field?

Virtual Mentors Cater to Active Traders

3/26/2004
CyberTrader is wooing active traders with online experts, interactive chat rooms and Web-based training courses.

NYFIX Teams with ArcaEx for Listed stocks

3/18/2004
NYFIX Millennium is giving buy- and sell-sell side traders the chance to execute listed stocks in Archipelago Exchange.

An Interview with Nasdaq’s Christopher Concannon

3/16/2004
If Christopher Concannon were a linguist, then market structure would be his language. As executive vice president of transaction services for the Nasdaq stock market, Concannon is responsible for the management and operation of Nasdaq's transaction platforms, including SuperMontage, its automatic-execution system.

Nasdaq Is Gearing up for Launch of Listed Trading on SuperMontage

3/4/2004
Next week Nasdaq plans to migrate trading in listed-stocks to SuperMontage in a move to capitalize on sector-based trading and cut costs.

Survival of the Fittest Trading Models

3/2/2004
A hedge fund run by Harvard Ph.D.s is building trading models drawing on evolutionary concepts, like survival of the fittest.

Changing of the Guard

3/1/2004
The NYSE's new Chief Executive John Thain is moving quickly to increase automatic execution on the floor. Will there still be a role for specialists? Will he dismantle the auction model? How far will John Thain go?