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.

Securing Your Trading Network

11/30/2010
Cybersecurity is top of mind at financial firms, which are vulnerable to rogue traders, hackers and other forms of unauthorized access.

CQG Adds Connectivity to GovEx

11/30/2010
Offers U.S. Treasury traders access to Currenex's (GovEx) fixed income platform combined with CQG's server-side order management.

First Derivatives Partners with Trading Cross Connects on HFT Solutions

11/30/2010
Partnership will provide software and infrastructure to high frequency firms trading FX, fixed income and futures.

Everyone Wants to Start An SEF

11/24/2010
Debate rages over what is a swap execution facility, but even as regulators craft the rules, there are many contenders.

SGX Launches Central Clearing Service via Calypso for Interest Rate Swaps

11/24/2010
his is the first OTC financial derivatives central counterparty clearing service in Asia.

Citi's Sale of OMS to FlexTrade Points to Broker-Neutral Software Trend

11/23/2010
Citi's sale of ColorPalette OMS to FlexTrade, reflects the broker's decision to differentiate itself in trading-related IP, and not run a front-end software business.

VelocityShares to Launch Volatility-Related ETNs

11/23/2010
Offering 2x leverage linked to the S&P 500 VIX Futures Index, the exchange traded notes are to enable institutional traders to manage their daily equity market trading risks.

Tradency Adds 'Pause Option' to Mirror Trading Platform

11/22/2010
New feature allows traders to control losses and minimize risks with automatic trading.

Blaylock Robert Van Targets Baskets With Move to Fidessa Equity Trading Platform

11/19/2010
Brokerage looks to handle growth of basket trades and reduce latency with integrated order and execution management.

Redline Trading Execution Gateway Caters to High-Frequency Trading Shops

11/19/2010
Traditional EMSs don't provide the speed that high-frequency traders require, contends Redline Trading CEO Mark Skalabrin.

MIXIT Adds Pairs Trading and Delta Options Functionality from Credit Suisse

11/19/2010
The new functionality will allow MIXIT to offer more sophisticated trading strategies through its OMS/EMS.

Financial Cocktails Reflect The Year-in-Review

11/19/2010
Cognito whips up drink recipes for its annual party reflecting reflecting financial regulations and Fed activity.

Slovenia's KD Funds Goes Live with Charles River IMS

11/18/2010
Automates the firm's equities, fixed income and foreign exchange investment operations.

Reaktor's FIX Engine Receives Certification From BATS Europe

11/18/2010
Integration with European MTFs has been costly and complicated, claims Finnish software vendor.

UNX Adds International Trading With UBS DMA and Algorithms

11/17/2010
Users of the UNX Catalyst EMS can now access markets across Canada, Europe and South America when they use the UBS DMA and algo strategies.

Bloomberg Launches First Daily China Credit Derivatives Pricing

11/17/2010
New service to help Chinese banks to reduce risk and increase transparency.

Can Bank of America Algo Act as a Flash Crash Firewall?

11/17/2010
With the Flash Crash raising concerns about algorithmic strategies, BofaML has devised a quant algo for futures that slices up an order to deal with volatile events such as releases of economic data.

StreamBase Integrates Streaming Feed from Morningstar into CEP Platform

11/16/2010
Mutual customers will be able to integrate wide range of data on multiple asset classes into a consolidated view.

MTS Plans Pan-European Corporate Bond Trading Platform

11/16/2010
This is a response to the Cassiopeia Committee to implement recommendations for the introduction of corporate bond platforms in Europe

Direct Edge Launches Connectivity To Other Equity Markets

11/15/2010
The fourth largest US exchange operator is jumping into the connectivity business with Connect Edge as a way to lower telco costs for sell side customers.

FlexTrade To Acquire Citi's ColorPalette OMS

11/15/2010
FlexTrade will make a substantial investment in the ColorPalette platform.

Debate Ignites Over Basel III Capital Rules

11/11/2010
Regulators push for safety of financial system, while banks say tough rules will undermine profits.

Instinet and ITG Ink Reciprocal Liquidity Agreement in Asia

11/11/2010
Allows institutional customers to seamlessly access each other's dark pools in Asia.

Chi-East Dark Pool Goes Live in Asia

11/11/2010
Asia's first dark liquidity aggregator offers participants the ability to trade anonymously on a low-latency basis.

Getting to the Bottom of HFT Message Rates

11/10/2010
The SEC needs to clear up misconceptions about the Flash Crash, especially whether quote stuffing or denial of service attacks really went on.

Are There Too Many Exchanges?

11/10/2010
The stock exchanges continue to roll out new equity trading platforms, arguing that competition drives innovation. But some traders, fearing increased fragmentation, are calling for a moratorium on new exchanges.

Russell Investments and Axioma Create 5 Factor Based Indexes

11/10/2010
The Russell-Axioma Factor Indexes are optimized to provide a highly tradable, basket of securities that closely track each specific factor's returns.

Spot Trading Hires New CFO with Private Equity and Exchange Credentials

11/10/2010
The proprietary equity options trading firm appointed Stephen Brodsky, a former executive with the Chicago Stock Exchange's holding company, who most recently worked in private equity.

The SEC Agenda: Hurry Up And Wait

11/9/2010
Throughout the financial crisis, the SEC has identified a host of equity market structure issues that are critical to ensuring safe and fair trading. But, already burdened by enacting the Dodd-Frank financial reform act, the regulator isn't likely to enact any new rules too quickly.

GATE Technologies Launches Trading Platform for Illiquid Assets

11/9/2010
GATE Pro is a recently approved ATS targeting the $1.2 trillion of private company, restricted securities.

SIX x-Clear to Provide Clearing Services for Liquidnet

11/9/2010
The CCP will provide exclusive clearing services for Liquidnet's Streaming Liquidity Providers in seven new markets.

StatPro Seven Measures Liquidity Risk

11/8/2010
Introduces a new approach to measuring liquidity risk as a separate module within StatPro Risk Management.

SunGard Launches Ultra Low Latency DMA for Europe

11/8/2010
SunGard's Valdi Execution Services caters to high-velocity traders executing across Pan European equity markets, providing a broker-managed solution that includes clearance and settlement.

Nasdaq OMX Announces On-Demand Data Service

11/5/2010
Web-based application using cloud computing allows users to purchase historical Level 1 tick data online, for US equities.

Hedge Fund Association Voices Opposition to Potential SRO

11/5/2010
HFA warns that potential hedge fund self-regulation organization (SRO) under investigation by the GAO would raise regulatory costs for funds to operate and also limit the industry's growth.

UK's Jupiter Asset Management Picks Streamstream's Reconciliations Service

11/4/2010
Asset manager will benefit from lower operational costs without an on premises installation.

Richard Sandor Named to Board of The Volatility Exchange

11/3/2010
CME will begin offering FX VolContracts under a licensing agreement with VolX.

Algo Span Chooses Telx's Colocation Facility in Chicago

11/3/2010
Agreement enables Algo Span to add access to CME and ICE as well as major liquidity venues in Europe and the United States.

Orc Software Offers Managed Service for Trading

11/3/2010
Orc Hosted is a fully supposed trading infrastructure, that includes Orc Trader, Orc Spreader and Orc Liquidator, with connectivity options.

Solace Closes Round of Equity Financing from Tandem Expansion

11/2/2010
Middleware appliance provider to use financing to expand its rapid global expansion.

Instinet Unveils Algorithms for Asia Pacific

11/2/2010
Instinet's Execution Expert consists of ten individual strategies customized to meet the trading challenges in Asia-Pacific.

NSX Partners with Sidera Networks

11/2/2010
NSX and Sidera announce Exchange in a Box, a new fiber-option-based network solution, allowing customers to connect with NSX in the New York Metro region at a reduced cost, in microseconds.

Orc Provides Connectivity to Brazilian Market Via Alpes

11/1/2010
Orc's will offer out-of-the-box low latency trading infrastructure to deploy high frequency trading strategies to customers of Alpes.

Patsystems Taps Interactive 7Ticks to Launch XConnect Hub

11/1/2010
Interactive 7Ticks will provides low-latency connectivity to derivatives exchanges out of Chicago-based data center.