Profile of Ivy Schmerken
Editor at Large
Member Since: 5/8/2014
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Blog Posts: 2629
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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 November 2009
11/30/2009
11/30/2009
11/25/2009
TBI is the first bank in Iraq to connect to the international FX community using Thomson Reuters Dealing trading service, giving it access to liquidity and counterparties.
11/24/2009
I spoke with Tom Galvin, CEO of Eze Castle Software and Douglas Nelson, CEO of NorthPoint, yesterday, to find out what motivated the transaction and how ConvergEx expects to leverage Northpoint's offering to expanding into the hedge fund space.
11/24/2009
With the API serivice, clients can incorporate TheMarket.com's content, search functionality and tagging technology, including analyst earnings modelsl in Excel.
11/23/2009
StreamBase connected its CEP technology to alternative trading system
Chi-X Canada, enabling customers to trade Canadian equities.
11/19/2009
Merger and credit arbitrage fund cited GlobeOp's middle- and back-office support, integrated reporting and SAS 70 certification as factors.
11/18/2009
IND-X combines its execution and commission management platform with with Enzard's independent research provider offering to expand in Asia.
11/12/2009
tpMatch is the latest in a series of electronic trading solutions that the global IDB has rolled out across a broad range of products.
11/12/2009
tpMatch is the latest in a series of electronic trading solutions that the global IDB has rolled out across a broad range of products.
11/12/2009
ACTIV Financial will provide direct and consolidated options data feeds for traders and market makers using OptionCity's electronic trading platform.
11/11/2009
Regulators really want to mandate clearing and trading on exchanges to bring transparency into the market and save taxpayers a fortune from bailing out the banks again.
11/10/2009
High-frequency trading firms are influencing the hiring trends on the Street as demand for quantitative skills increases.
11/10/2009
European dark pool signs up three additional investment banks and expects to bring them online in coming months
11/10/2009
Informatica announces version 9 of its data integration platform, providing a framework for business users to find data spread across multiple systems.
11/9/2009
With a plethora of proposed regulations in the pipeline, financial services firms are facing more strenuous audits and data reporting requirements that could result in penalties if firms get them wrong.
11/9/2009
SuperFeed currently provides coverage to Hong Kong Stock Exchange's derivatives and cash feed via its Hong Kong data center.
11/6/2009
The Challenge Congress is working on legislation for OTC derivatives reform, but there is still no agreement on mandatory clearing of standardized instruments or on how exotic instruments will be handled.
11/6/2009
Regulators are scrutinizing the surge in high-frequency trading strategies, which account for more than 60 percent of equities executions by some estimates. Charges of unfair access likely will continue to drive the HFT controversy in 2010.
11/6/2009
WS&T Editor-at-Large Ivy Schmerken spoke with Chris Edmonds, CEO of the International Derivatives Clearing Group, about the value of central clearing in the interest rate derivatives markets.
11/5/2009
Bloomberg's real-time data is now available to Calypso and Sky Road's joint clients of the derivatives and treasury processing hosted solution.
11/4/2009
Could the SEC's proposed ban on flash orders be a precursor to a ban on high-frequency trading or to limits on colocation?
11/4/2009
Ultra-low latency dark fiber network connects two Equinix data ceners in New Jersey to leading carrier hotels in NYC.
11/4/2009
David Friehling, the accountant who audited Bernard Madoff's books, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court, claiming he was unaware of Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
11/3/2009
Worried about systemic risk caused by naked access, industry participants push for concurrent monitoring of high-frequency trades.
11/3/2009
Buy-side high-frequency trading firm taps Lime Brokerage for colocation, access to markets and data, with Goldman Sachs as prime broker.
11/3/2009
Hires industy veteran Vuk Bulajic to build out the equity derivatives team team and product offering including research.
11/2/2009
Releases white paper outlining the importance of internal crossing mechanisms as a liquidity source within next generation trading technology.