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.

NYSE Says Good Bye to Specialists; Hello DMMs

6/19/2008
Some media outlets are reporting that the new rules could spell the end for the Hybrid Market, which the NYSE launched in 2006 as a way to comply with Regulation NMS.

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6/17/2008
Wall Street is exploring graphics processing units found in video games to speed options analytics and other math-intensive applications.

NYSE Redefines Specialist Role in Sweeping Regulatory Filing

6/17/2008
NYSE phases out specializes in favor of new DMMs to speed up electronic executions.

Liquidnet Founder Seth Merrin Calls for Greater Cooperation Between Exchanges and ATSs

6/11/2008
Merrin points to the reduction in average execution size on exchanges as evidence that the current market structure is "broken."

NYSE Euronext ATS Says UNX Is First to Join SFTI Community

6/10/2008
The brokerage services provider is the first part of NYSE Euronext ATS' vision of a hosted trading solutions business connecting financial firms and third-party providers.

Linedata Enhances Support for Alternative Assets on Its LongView Live Dashboard

6/10/2008
In addition to improving the front-office execution dashboard, the vendor has integrated its LongView Trading OMS with several EMSs and alternative trading systems, addressing asset managers' shift toward alternative investments.

Tervela Adds Persistence Engine to Messaging Infrastructure

6/6/2008
The persistence engine offers high-performance storage, and a new message-based services engine adds intelligence to the Tervela Messaging Network 3.0, says the vendor.

Skyler Unveils Enterprise Version of Its C3 Global Liquidity Discovery Solution

6/6/2008
Vendor claims its scalable solution can accommodate 600,000 messages per second throughput while maintaining microsecond latency, as well as source global liquidity by a common currency and lower the cost of ownership of processing market data.

Progress Apama’s New Complex Event Processing Platform Slashes Latency

6/6/2008
Vendor reports Progress Apama 4.0 offers a five-fold reduction in latency in CEP applications and an easy, out-of-the-box experience.

Tech Vendors Respond to the Low-Latency Challenge

6/6/2008
InfoReach, Trading Metrics, Endace, Tervela among vendors featuring new latency-reducing solutions at SIFMA.

CBOE and 3-D Markets Bring the GWAP to Options

6/2/2008
The new partnership is significant because it's targeted at institutions that are trading thousands of contracts - as many as 250,000 - to execute at a fair price with anonymity and without market impact.

Nasdaq OMX and BATS Trading Gear Up for Pan European Initiatives

6/2/2008
Nasdaq OMX and BATS Trading Gear Up for Pan European Initiatives