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 August 2012
8/24/2012
Advanced Trading takes you on an exclusive tour of Abel Noser's New York trading floor, where the agency broker known for transaction cost analysis, is customizing algorithms for the buy side, while growing its fixed income trading and transitions business.
8/23/2012
This is the latest in a series of technical glitches that have eroded investor confidence in the market infrastructure.
8/20/2012
As interest in automated bond trading heats up on Wall Street, Bonds.com named Michael Sacks as the company's head technology for its electronic platform to grow its usage on the buy side.
8/19/2012
CIO Stephen Davy is leading efforts to analyze and enhance Newedge's processing systems in order to differentiate the firm's global clearing and execution business.
8/16/2012
As the head of U.S. equity trading for RBC Global Asset Management, Ryan Larson often focuses on liquidity analysis to avoid being gamed by high-frequency traders. But he emphasizes the human element as much as quantitative analysis.
8/7/2012
After Knight Capital's rescue, there are still concerns about risk controls. A professor from Columbia University told CNBC that regulators need to put in speed bumps so that markets continue to function when the next upheaval occurs.
8/7/2012
The market data provider added a Point-of-Presence at the Q9 data center in the Toronto area, to meet customer demand for connectivity to new exchanges and alternative trading systems in the region.
8/6/2012
If true, this marks a gross oversight, as algorithms fire off hundreds of shares per second.
8/6/2012
The company, which provides access to 22 FX ECNs, banks, and platforms, said that customers won't pay fees related to trading volume, but for its software.
8/3/2012
Wall Street firms are accelerating the roll out of mobile apps for their institutional clients. Here's how they're catching up with the retail side of the business.
8/3/2012
In the absence of regulation to protect the markets, participants seem to have punished Knight Capital for its crimes.
8/2/2012
Knight Capital's CEO Tom Joyce told Bloomberg TV that the electronic broker had a problem interacting with the NYSE's new Retail Liquidity Provider program which went live yesterday, which was the subject of speculation on the street.
8/2/2012
Traders said a 'buy-program' that was executed by Knight Capital on the floor of the NYSE within a few minutes of the opening yesterday could have caused high volumes and wild price swings in 148 listed-stocks.
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