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 January 2010
1/29/2010
The options industry has outgrown five-character options symbols and is converting to a more-descriptive format that will help investors understand the instruments they are trading.
1/29/2010
New options symbology was phased in on Feb. 12, seemingly without any problems. But given the far-reaching nature of the conversion for brokers, exchanges, clearing firms and vendors, some kinks still could arise.
1/29/2010
Mega Bolsa, the equities trading platform, is switching over to a new communications interface, that performs ten times faster than the current system.
1/29/2010
Faith-based organization, ICCR, warns that compliance with SEC's guidance on climate risks will create "lag time."
1/28/2010
With the addition of Valdez, Penserra looks to expand its global program trading capabilities.
1/28/2010
Global research platform now has 700 brokers publishing content, quadrupling the number from one year ago.
1/27/2010
I went to a conference on "Carbon After Copenhagen" that was very interesting and points to an emerging asset class in the U.S.
1/25/2010
Customers can access real-time and historical market data for Nasdaq OMX Nordic derivatives, and trading access is slated for later this year.
1/25/2010
SunGard Global Execution Services targets sponsored access in European markets, DMA and clearing services to high frequency trading firms.
1/25/2010
Provides market-moving machine readable news to high frequency traders in London and Chicago.
1/21/2010
OptionEase CEO Kim Kovacs says on-demand system can help companies comply with complex stock option accounting rules and avoid penalties.
1/21/2010
Hong Kong office will strengthen its execution services in the Asian region.
1/20/2010
Block trading ATS uses FIX Flyer's Daytona to monitor FIX sessions with counterparties in real time.
1/19/2010
Wall Street is getting ready for a legal battle over the proposed bank tax unveiled by President Obama last week and has hired a top litigator who has argued cases before the Supreme Court.
1/19/2010
The Exegy Ticker Plant has added market data feed handlers to process data from Canada's Omega ATS to attract high frequency traders.
1/15/2010
Provides first neutral interface that connects buy-and sell-side to two central clearing counterparties for OTC credit derivatives.
1/14/2010
Researchers and Wall Street firms are analyzing the avalanche of Internet content -- including news feeds, blogs and Twitter posts -- to help improve trading performance.
1/14/2010
After completing the Nymex Clearport integration for OTC products, Wall was tapped for larger IT role at CME.
1/14/2010
Barclays Capital will become the leading NYSE market maker after the acquisition of LaBranche is completed in Q1.
1/13/2010
Swiss bank utilizes GFI FENICS Enterprise for pricing of FX options and analyzing portfolios.
1/12/2010
With Wall Street bonuses back in the headlines, Simon Johnson, a professor at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, says it's wrong for too-big to fail banks to pay out all their profits to employees.
1/12/2010
ICE elevates Grant Biggars to president and Sophia Corona to COO, while Sunil Hirani and John Grifonnetti depart.
1/11/2010
To drum up commissions, sell-side sales professionals increasingly are communicating trade ideas to buy-side clients via alpha capture systems such as youDevise's Trade Information Monitor, which provide performance metrics around the trade ideas.
1/11/2010
FXall's Settlement Center will automatically recognize CLS-eligible trades and support CLS matching, so that CLS mismatches can be identified.
1/11/2010
Higgins joins ITG as a director within the electronic sales group in Europe.
1/7/2010
In case you thought the controversy over 'flash trading' that erupted in equities is over, think again. In a video CBOE Executive Vice Chairman Edward Tilly contends the economics of flash trading in options and how this actually benefits the customer.
1/7/2010
New version integrates OMS/ EMS into a single platform, supports high-volume wealth management accounts and unveils performance measurement module.
1/6/2010
Sell-side heads of equity technology are looking to consolidate their data centers into fewer locations, but not give up space, reports Kevin McPartland, senior analyst at Tabb Group in a Youtube video.
1/6/2010
Newedge to offer all products listed on the Korea Exchange, including equities and derivatives, as of Jan. 4, 2010.
1/5/2010
Commodity, futures and options broker will provide clients with ability to price all LME-traded derivatives in real time.
1/4/2010
Rolling out in 2010, SunGard's new MDD servers address sharp increases in market data volumes and respond to multi-venue, fragmented liquidity environment.
1/4/2010
Citi says multi-bank platform is best owned by multi-bank provider.