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 June 2011
6/30/2011
The main culprits are weak markets, European debt worries and regulatory uncertainty.
6/30/2011
Cinnober will deliver trading, market data, and surveillance systems for Thai bourse's equities and derivatives markets
6/29/2011
Erste Securities Polska will use the OMS to connect with the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and help it manage complex client order flows.
6/29/2011
The futures exchange operator conducted research over a two-year period, finding that computer-driven trading firms increase liquidity and narrow spreads.
6/28/2011
Direct Access Trading Partners juggles multi-asset execution with alternative capital group, while complying with new trade reporting regs.
6/28/2011
Both firms will develop e-trading tools for the Mexican and Latin American markets for deployment through the UNX Catalyst EMS.
6/27/2011
As Wall Street firms offload more and more work into the cloud, new technology delivery models, including shared utilities, are likely to emerge.
6/27/2011
Looking to shed the cost maintaining servers, networks and storage technology, Wall Street firms are finding it harder and harder to ignore the cloud.
6/27/2011
Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse tied for third place in Greenwich Associates Survey.
6/27/2011
The firm will become a clearing broker on FXall's Order Book platforms aimed at institutional clients executing in spot FX.
6/24/2011
6/23/2011
BondDesk revamped the fixed income wealth management platform and will offer it to its largest customers.
6/23/2011
GSET's new functionality enables automatic hedging with the underlying equity for all US options algorithmic strategies.
6/22/2011
Institutions are paying for essential services and squeezing other provid
6/21/2011
Why are U.S. institutions pulling back on e-trading and shifting more commissions to high touch sales traders?
6/20/2011
The bank will initially support options across 44 currency pairs via the Fenics platform.
6/20/2011
Regulator reviews the proposed combination of BATS and Chi-X, which would reduce the number of venues trading U.K. equities.
6/17/2011
Investors placing their money into private equity funds want the data to come from audited systems.
6/16/2011
Portware offers automated trading infrastructure in a one-stop shop.
6/16/2011
Low latency market data and high speed trading applications are being pitched to the buy side.
6/14/2011
The EMS/OMS provider picks Thomson Reuter's global infrastructure to deliver cross-asset trading.
6/13/2011
Delivers two ulra low-latency market data feed handlers for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, as HFT firms migrate their strategies to Asian markets.
6/13/2011
Wedbush will use Lime's technology to expand its
DMA/colocation services, risk management and execute in more asset classes for buy and sell side firms.
6/13/2011
The firm's InRush NBBO calculates the NBBO for U.S. equities and delivers the composite 5 microseconds faster than the SIP feeds.
6/9/2011
The global interest rate derivatives clearinghouse is in the headlines for attracting a joint bid from NYSE Euronext and Markit.
6/9/2011
Easthope returns as research director of Celent's Securities and Investments group in the San Francisco office.
6/7/2011
CQG’s global market data and trade routing infrastructure will be available to Deltix clients.
6/7/2011
PAVE MTF will utllize Cinnober's TESS solution to gain market share in Spanish equities, which also helped launch Alpha Trading in Canada.
6/6/2011
Provides a set of services for the full lifecycle of FX trading hosted by the company for participants to build their own proprietary trading solution.
6/6/2011
At launch, the hub will offer connectivity to over 20 futures exchanges globally.
6/3/2011
The report surveyed how U.S. and U.K.-based financial services firms are adapting to the emerging regulatory landscape in trading, risk, regulation and operations.
6/2/2011
The broker's Speedway 3.0 platform can perform pre-trade risk checks at sub-two microseconds.
6/1/2011
Joining from Fidelity Investments, he will be responsible for heading American Century Investment's North America-based client business.
6/1/2011
The global market maker will create algorithms for U.S. equities that focus on micro executions.