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 July 2012
7/31/2012
Global wholesale broker forms Epsilon Network with Thesys Technologies to create fastest route for futures, equities and fixed income between CME, Nasdaq, BGC and ELX Futures data centers.
7/30/2012
A CFTC panel agreed on the urgency of developing a technological solution for verification of funds in customer segregated accounts, but one industry veteran, warned not to wait until everything is perfect.
7/30/2012
Deutsche Bank claimed the No. 1 ranking, while Goldman took second place, in a Greenwich Associates 2012 fixed income study as some dealers have pulled back on capital allocated to fixed income trading.
7/26/2012
The bank hired David Silber, who joines from Jefferies &Co., and Peter Lambrakis formerly with Deutsche bank, in a move to strengthen its Equities team in the Americas.
7/25/2012
Investment manager clients of Eagle will get access to portfolio data and analytics via web, mobile devices and Microsoft Office applications.
7/24/2012
Citi will disseminate the real-time data releases and global economic news to its FX traders and sales staff through the bank's inhouse information service, CitiFX Wire.
7/24/2012
Larrain Vial will rely on FIX Flyer's Ignition Trade Simulation and Certification Tool to test in-house algos and connectivity to a network of LatAm exchanges.
7/23/2012
The top regulator contracted with Tradeworx, a Redbank, NJ-based high frequency trading firm and tech vendor, to supply it with a market data and research platform for policing the equities and options markets in real time.
7/23/2012
In a move that seems too close to the Pipeline soap opera, EMS provider Portware will integrate the predictive analytics that it acquired from the former dark pool, while offering customers a broker-neutral solution to improve trading performance.
7/23/2012
Paris-based fund manager La Francaise AM taps proprietary credit market analytics and advisory services from S&P Capital IQ's Global Market Intelligence unit to create a credit fund in the Eurozone.
7/20/2012
The largest bank in FX revamped its Autobahn FX platform to cater to different client segments and respond to changes in regulation and market structure.
7/16/2012
Some big investors are sending surveys to Wall Street analysts, and feeding their responses into their algos, to get an edge on earnings revisions. Is this insider trading or quantitative investing?
7/10/2012
EBS published new Dealing Rules as part of a series of planned enhancements, which also includes relaunching the EBS brand.
7/10/2012
Seeking a world record, Anton Kreil, a former Goldman Sachs trader, plans to execute the first stock trade in space when he blasts off aboard the shuttle in 2014.
7/9/2012
Turret maker enables traders and non-traders in the middle and backoffice to instantly communicate, while integrating hoot and intercom features.
7/6/2012
With energy markets demanding more transparency and accuracy, the interdealer broker is providinga comprehensive picture of OTC forward markets in crude, fuel oil and distillates.
7/5/2012
With clouds of the MF Global collapse hovering over him, Jon Corzine, the former senator and governor of New Jersey, is lying low in the Hamptons, reports the New York Post.
7/5/2012
As global chief operating officer, Barrowcliff is responsible for Newedge's back-end, credit, technology and product development as well as supervising the UK metals desk.
7/3/2012
The acquisition gives S&P Capital IQ the technology to move into intraday quotes on derivative and other OTC securities.
7/2/2012
Following the departure of former CTO Michael Rauchman last month, the global market making firm promoted Ross, who was head of Getco Execution Services in Europe,.
7/2/2012
The watchdog is investigating Nasdaq's computer systems and processes related to the flawed Facebook IPO on May 18, and could demand upgrades from the exchange operator.