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.

Four Investment Banks Go Live with AcadiaSoft

10/31/2011
Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and J.P. Morgan are using AcadiaSoft's online community for margin automation in the OTC derivatives market.

SunGard Connects with GETCO's European Crossing Network

10/31/2011
GETMatched crosses brokers’ orders with passive flow from GETCO’s European market-making operation.

Meet the Team Behind JP Morgan’s Electronic Trading Transformation

10/28/2011

TeraExchange to Launch New Market for OTC Derivatives

10/28/2011
New trading venture will offer a central limit order book for swaps and OTC cleared derivatives in Q4 2011.

The Debate Over Counterparty Risk and CVA

10/26/2011

Pipeline’s Misuse of Client Information

10/25/2011
As a journalist who wrote about Pipeline many times over the past 7 years, I can’t believe the firm would deceive its clients about how and where it was executing trades.

Who’s Afraid of Volatility?

10/25/2011
Todd Hurlbut of Everett Capital Management uses algorithms and dark pools to cope with volatility in equities and alternative asset classes. Find out what this buy side trader thinks of HFT.

The High-Speed Chase for Liquidity

10/24/2011
Options exchanges are going after market share by upgrading their trading platforms and moving to third-party data centers -- all in the name of lower latency.

High-Frequency Trading to Blame for Market Volatility? 

10/24/2011
As the markets continue their wild gyrations, regulators continue to struggle with high-frequency trading's role in the volatility and with how to stabilize the markets.

JP Morgan Gets a Global Electronic Refresh

10/24/2011
JP Morgan revamped its algorithms, aggregated internal liquidty and hired quants on a global scale to win the buy side's electronic trading business.

Everett Capital's Todd Hurlbut: Detecting Patterns in Alternative Assets

10/24/2011
Relying on algorithmic trading and dark pools, Todd Hurlbut of Everett Capital Management executes cash equities trades while trading futures across multiple asset classes. But what does this low-latency trader think about high frequency liquidity?

Equinix's IBX Cloud Marketplace Launches Today

10/24/2011
Equinix sets up online community for companies to search for partners ranging from network connectivity to private clouds to alternative trading systems.

Olympian Capital Hires Arun Kaul as CIO

10/24/2011
Hedge fund manager looks to expand its business into macro-global multi-strategies for private clients.

BATS' Acquisition of Chi-X Europe Clears UK Regulator

10/20/2011
The UK Competition Commission provisionally concluded that customers have the power to prevent the merged company from raising trading fees or worseing service.

The Rush to Alternative Investments

10/19/2011
Extreme volatility and macroeconomic uncertainty are driving the buy side into alternative investments. But firms are using options to boost returns, not just hedge positions.

AlgoSpan Speeds Up London to Frankfurt-Stockholm Trade Routes

10/19/2011
The network upgrade serves high frequency/low latency traders with strategies in London going direct to Nasdaq OMX in Stockholm and Xetra/Eurex in Equinix's Frankfurt data center.

Hedge Funds Wake Up to Transparency

10/19/2011
The veil of secrecy has caused a problem for hedge funds and led to Dodd Frank, says an AT Summit panelist.

ConvergEx Launches Portfolio Algo

10/19/2011
ConvergEx is offering Spectrum, a new algo, to help portfolio managers precisely manage risk and cash balances, while executing in domestic dark venues.

CME's Colo Service to Go Live on Jan. 29

10/13/2011
The derivatives exchange operator will offer colocation services to high speed trading customers out of its own 428,000 sq. foot data center in Aurora, Ill.

Nasdaq OMX Introduces UltraFeed

10/10/2011
Partners with Quodd Financial Information Services to deliver a feed that combines equities, options futures and index data into a single stream.

Galaxy MTF Receives Approval from Swiss Regulator

10/6/2011
The MTF for European bonds will operate as a foreign exchange in Switzerland.

Volatility Pulls the Buy Side into Alternatives

10/5/2011
While the popularity of alternative asset classes, ranging from equity options to currency and gold futures, has been growing for several years, participation in alternatives among asset managers and retail investors has skyrocketed this year as traders have sought to cushion their portfolios against the zigzagging stock market or, conversely, to make bets on the volatility.

Broadway Technology Begins Public Campaign

10/3/2011
Enterprise software provider of high performance trading solutions says it's no longer operating under the radar.

Tradeweb's Interest-Rate Swaps Volume Surges 90 Percent

10/3/2011
Electronic trading activity spiked, as clients began to prepare for regulatory compliance, say Tradeweb.