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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.

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posted in November 2007

Retail Traders Apply Algorithms to FX

11/27/2007
"We're seeing retail traders now come in building their own models and who are involved in high-frequency trading," says Thomas Plaut, CEO of online foreign exchange broker FX Solutions.

ATSs Favor Independent Tech Supplier

11/26/2007
New alternative marketplaces that are gearing up to compete with traditional exchanges are staying clear of the exchange-aligned technology solution providers.

Expert Analysis of Thain's Move to Merrill

11/14/2007
John Thain is reportedly leaving the top position at NYSE Euronext to assume the CEO mantle at brokerage house Merrill Lynch & Co., which is reeling from its write-downs in the sub-prime mortgage mess. Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of TABBGroup, says," It's surprising from the standpoint that he's already run a brokerage business and the question is why would he want to do that again," poses Tabb.

BATS Trading Seeks Exchange Status in SEC Filing

11/6/2007
BATS Trading, the alternative equity marketplace, moved to become a fully licensed securities exchange, filing an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday.

CEO Crisis at Citi and Merrill: How About a Crash Course in Risk?

11/6/2007
The swift ouster and resignation of two powerful Wall Street CEOs within a week of one another shows there is a serious management void in the executive suite of financial institutions that went whole hog into derivatives tied to sub-prime mortgages.

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