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 June 2012
6/29/2012
The watchdog is investigating Nasdaq's computer systems and processes related to the flawed Facebook IPO on May 18. Will the regulator demand system upgrades?
6/28/2012
Though he claimed to have no knowledge of his brother Bernard's multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme, Peter Madoff has agreed to forfeit $143 billion and serve 10 years in prison.
6/27/2012
Facing a dilemma of how to compete with dark pools and internalizers, exchanges are planning their own dark venues to offer better prices to retail investors.
6/27/2012
On Friday's second quarter earnings call, J.P. Morgan will shed more light on its recent $2 billion -- and counting -- hedging loss. We break down what went wrong.
6/26/2012
Upgrades derivatives trading system with Nasdaq OMX's Genium-INET platform.
6/26/2012
The investment bank beefs up its sales staff with new hires and unveils an algo that can handle significant market data volumes at the close.
6/25/2012
The hosted solution provides CEP-based futures market data and analytics, with both historical and real-time data.
6/22/2012
An Australian trading technology startup demoed Zeptolink, a network device at SIFMA, this week that achieved latencies of about five nanoseconds, beating conventional data center switches.
6/21/2012
After the Facebook IPO debacle, exchanges on a SIFMA panel said there is a need for better communication and crisis management, calling for a "hotline" when they are in the heat of battle.
6/21/2012
Partnering with LCH.Clearnet, Nasdaq OMX's London-based NLX will offer competitive execution and and clearing fees as well as margin efficiencies, says the exchange operator.
6/18/2012
Wedbush's Lime Brokerage teamed with NovaSparks to offer an FPGA-based ultra-low latency market data service as part of its new buy-side infrastructure.
6/14/2012
The buy-side firm is actively clearing interest rate swaps through LCH.Clearnet's SwapClear service so it can plan ahead for market structure changes and optimize its clearing solutions.
6/13/2012
No fireworks, no smoking gun - just a smooth Jamie Dimon before some Senators who clearly don't understand Wall Street.
6/12/2012
Despite his sterling reputation for risk management, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon tolerated risky trades, loose limits and changes in its VaR out of the London chief investment office.
6/11/2012
Orange's extranet been extended to include connectivity to swap execution facilities, and tailored to meet the U.S. regulatory requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act.
6/8/2012
Despite the strong criticism from rival exchanges, one analyst sees it as a clever move to make Nasdaq a more attractive venue.
6/7/2012
Michael Rauchman who served as CTO of Getco since 2010, has left electronic trading firm following a leadership change in February under CEO Daniel Coleman.
6/7/2012
Michael Rauchman who served as CTO of Getco since 2010, has left electronic trading firm following a leadership change in February.
6/6/2012
Geared to non-latency sensitive clients, the new service will provide access to real-time, historical and reference market data for all NYSE Euronext markets via the Internet.
6/5/2012
Only 19 percent of bank CIOs described their information management program as “thriving,” while two-thirds said it was just "surviving" and 14 percent described it as "stumbling", reports the survey, which also found that investment is underfunded.
6/5/2012
Online broker Motif Investing has launched an intuitive technology platform that allows ordinary investors to buy portfolios of stocks based on current trends like Repeal Obama Care, Caffeine Fix and Mobile Internet.
6/4/2012
A successful but now defunct Government Information Sharing Framework (GISF) program would help to protect the capital markets from cyber attacks, DTCC contends in June 1 testimony.
6/4/2012
Capital markets executives reveal their favorite schools for hiring computer programming and engineering graduates.