Profile of Ivy Schmerken

Editor at Large

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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 2004

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Bracing for Disclosure of Soft Dollars

8/27/2004
The SEC's examination of soft dollars could require money managers to increase disclosure of costs and force the sell side to unbundle its commissions and separately price its research.

Algo Trading Lures the Buy Side in a Fragmented Market

8/27/2004
Buy-side traders find algorithmic trading helps them conceal their trades, boost productivity and measure their performance against benchmarks.

Man Versus Machine

8/27/2004
With algorithmic trading, it seems like the evolution of electronic trading has taken a quantum leap.

Merrill Lynch Ramps Up Algorithmic Trading Access

8/19/2004
Merrill Lynch is rolling out its algorithmic-trading strategies to institutional clients via Bloomberg and other third-party systems, signaling that it's becoming more aggressive in marketing its capabilities.

Terrorist Alert Will Prompt Higher Financial Services IT Spending

8/5/2004
Last weekend's elevation of the terrorist-threat level will cause financial firms to boost IT spending on operational resiliency by nearly 10 percent a year.