Profile of Ivy Schmerken
Editor at Large
Member Since: 5/8/2014
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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 May 2011
5/31/2011
The latency monitoring service will provide independent insight into all BATS US-based markets in equities and options.
5/31/2011
CM 10-CIC went live with Quantifi XL's front-office pricing and analysis tool to support trading operations in flow and derivatives products.
5/26/2011
A life-long fan, the hedge fund manager brings $200k and financial acumen to the cash-strapped team.
5/26/2011
Releases preliminary results claiming that all respondents plan to make changes in their counterparty risk systems.
5/25/2011
The current state of high-speed trading, derivatives and dark pools owes its history to a long line of innovators.
5/25/2011
Financial services firms build their businesses on innovation. Protecting those advances is a full-time job.
5/25/2011
Highlight takes a snapshot of enterprise software within seconds, arming executives with information on structural issues.
5/25/2011
Partners with subsidiary of Shanghai Stock Exchange to offer FIX orde
5/24/2011
Why is a Congressman investigating Steven Cohen of SAC Capital?
5/24/2011
Lime leverages BT's financial cloud to offer pre-trade risk solutions to other brokers facing compliance with SEC's Market Access Rule in July.
5/23/2011
Free iPhone/iPad application provides analysis of news and social media to predict the stock market.
5/23/2011
The global equity specialist was looking for extensive pre-trade decision support and real-time trade analytics along with post-trade reporting.
5/19/2011
Buy-Side Executives at Wall Street & Technology’s Capital Markets Cloud Symposium felt that while the private cloud leads to benefits such as standardization and time-to-market, it also causes cultural change for IT staffs.
5/19/2011
Exchange Operator taps Thomas McManus from Barclays Capital where he is head of compliance, Americas.
5/19/2011
PQT will deliver a managed service for multi-asset electronic trading clients.
5/18/2011
Eighty percent of asset managers are active in social media, but quality separates leaders from the pack.
5/18/2011
The money management firm hired David Eckert who was previously ING's global COO/CIO for its investment management and insurance business.
5/18/2011
With the addition of trading in Turkey and Israel, the crossing network's coverage encompasses 14,500 securities in 22 EMEA countries.
5/16/2011
Jofre most recently worked at Liquidnet Holdings, and previously at J.P. Morgan in algorithmic trading.
5/16/2011
Users of Selerity platform will gain access to analysts' changing credit rating outlooks on public companies and emerging sovereign nations in machine-readable format.
5/13/2011
Those attending the Skybridge alternative investments conference in LasVegas, told CNBC that Raj Rajaratnam will flee the U.S, to escape a 20-year jail term.
5/12/2011
Hans Heidle joins Pipeline as director of execution management consulting to run its TCA program.
5/11/2011
ABS and preferred stocks were launched in direct response to institutional customer demand.
5/10/2011
Tradar's portfolio management and accounting solution will be hosted in Eze Castle Integration's cloud-based hosted offering for investment managers and hedge funds.
5/10/2011
Trading firms are leveraging private clouds for research and back testing as well as global order routing.
5/10/2011
5/10/2011
The list of 10 to 25 securities highlights the best long-only ideas generated by the firm's fundamental equity research department.
5/9/2011
SAC Global's founder attends social events to blunt allegations of insider trading.
5/9/2011
Members will meet quarterly to discuss post-trade best practices that go beyond current regulatory requirements.
5/5/2011
Designed for traders, MNI Monitor is a web-based application that provides 260 market-moving economic indicators to smartphones.
5/4/2011
The low-cost alternative trading system for Canadian exchange-listed equities and fixed income instruments will no longer charge a monthly $350 (CDN) subscriber fee.
5/3/2011
Anthony Perugini joins AIS in a new position. The firm provides provides middle and back office support to hedge fund managers.
5/2/2011
Customers can reduce telco costs by using its high-speed, proprietary network ConnectEdge to reach significant dark pools.
5/2/2011
Hires industry veteran John McGough from BTIG, as it plans to offer a virtual aggregation /broker neutral platform to manage CCA/CSA business.