Profile of Ivy Schmerken

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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.

CFA Institute Sends Letter on OTC Derivatives Reform to Congress

10/30/2009
Standardized derivatives should trade on regulated exchanges and clear centrally, states CFA's letter, citing investor group's report.

Direct Access Partners Hires Team from Van der Moolen Group

10/29/2009
US institutional brokerage team exits Van der Moolen Group to join Direct Access Partners, citing access to multiple asset classes and prime brokerage.

Wall Street Bands Rock Out for Charity

10/29/2009
Tonight, mortgage traders and other fixed income professionals who play in Wall Street bands are hoping to have fun and raise a ton of money.

Liquidnet In Rwanda

10/29/2009
Check out the amazing work that global electronic marketplace Liquidnet is doing in Rwanda to help traumatized orphans caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

G2 Systems Joins Forces with HighRoad Fund Services

10/28/2009
G2 hires HighRoad's founder to add solid fund administrator and fund accounting consulting services to its practice.

Madoff Friend Jeffrey Picower Takes Secrets to His Grave

10/27/2009
Bernard Madoff's billionaire friend Jeffry Picower, who was found dead at the bottom of a pool on Sunday at his Palm Beach mansion, was the biggest beneficiary of the Madoff scam,

Lime Brokerage to Offer Marketcetera's Automated Trading Platform

10/27/2009
Lime will tap Marketcetera's open-source software platform to enable rapid implementation of new equities trading strategies.

Proprietary Trading Firms Recruit Technical Talent Online

10/26/2009

High-Frequency Trading Firms Seeking Tech Talent

10/26/2009
High-frequency trading firms are recruiting programmers and other tech talent. But some prefer Google and Microsoft alumni to Wall Street veterans.

Inter-Pacific Securities Goes Live With SunGard's GL Net for DMA

10/26/2009
Malaysian brokerage firm utilizes SunGard's GL Net to trade directly on Malaysia's derivatives exchange.

Fidelity Launches New Online Platform For Foreign Stocks and Currency Exchanges

10/22/2009
New platform expands capabilities for retail investors, broker-dealers and advisers to trade international stocks and exchange foreign currencies.

Fidelity Launches New Online Platform For Foreign Stocks and Currency Exchanges

10/22/2009
Platform expands capabilities for retail investors, broker-dealers and

What's New In Market Data?

10/21/2009
While in the case of Canadian equities we're seeing a push to provide a consolidated data feed from all the various Canadian equity ATS and marketplaces, in the options world, traders already have the consolidated feed and want specialized, direct feeds from each venue.

Revelations from Book "Too Big To Fail"

10/20/2009
New York Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin discussed his new book "Too Big To Fail" with CNBC today in which he discloses some behind-the-scenes conversations that took place at Goldman Sachs and at Lehman

SR Labs Launches Hosted Market Data Feed Handler

10/20/2009
Teams up with Options IT to power the new market data offering aimed at high frequency trading environments.

Thomson Reuters Launches Ultralow-Latency Access to SBI Japannext

10/19/2009
It's first to offer microsecond access to direct feed of SBI Japannext alternative trading venue, said Thomson Reuters.

TD Ameritrade Customers Track Positions in Real Time

10/15/2009
Worden Brothers' www.FreeStockCharts.com automatically tracks positions of TD Ameritrade customers in real time.

Nasdaq OMX to Launch Third Equity Trading Platform in U.S.

10/15/2009
Plans to launch new price/size priority model in 2010, using license acquired from PHLX.

Panelists Sound Off On High Frequency Trading at Thomson Reuters Event

10/13/2009
Poll found that over 70 percent of buy-and sell-side attendees felt regulators are behind the curve in understanding implications of HFT.

R.W. Pressprich Invests in CodeStreet

10/13/2009
Fixed-income broker-dealer uses CodeStreet's Teamwork hosted service for fixed income sales and trading, and wants to help firm expand into broad array of asset classes.

Direct Edge Upgrades to Exegy's Exchange Connect

10/13/2009
Direct Edge to use Exegy's Exchange Connect appliance to accelerate its view of away markets and speed up its routing solution.

BlackRock's Analytics Pay Off in More Ways Than One

10/13/2009
BlackRock's analytics and pricing models are so well respected that the firm made a business of them. Now the federal government is one of its top customers.

BTIG Hires Vikas Tandon to Head High Yield and Distressed Analytics

10/12/2009
New Hire boosts expertise of BTIG's global fixed income group across the credit spectrum.

Morgan Stanley Seeks Transparency Into Inter-Party Latency With Exchanges and MTFs

10/12/2009
Broker signs deal wtih Corvil to monitor market data plants and order execution traffic to gain visibility into inter-party latency.

Strata Fund Services Enters Alliance with HedgeOp Compliance

10/9/2009
Fund administrator to use ComplianceTrak software for alternative investment industry clients.

ConvergEx To Acquire Cogent Consulting

10/8/2009
ConvergEx says Cogent's research valuation and broker vote software are a natural fit with its commission management busine

ConvergEx To Acquire Cogent Consulting After Collapse of Consortium Deal

10/8/2009
Cogent''s research valuation and broker vote software are a natural fit with ConvergEx's commission management business.

Neuberger Berman Picks Switch and Data Site

10/8/2009
Global asset manager will house critical operations infrastructure in Switch and Data's northeastern U.S. site.

Fidelity Investments' Unwavering Commitment to the Mobile Channel

10/7/2009
Early on, Fidelity recognized the value of providing customers with a complete mobile offering, and chief wireless officer Joseph Ferra is committed to creating the best user experience possible.

Cosmos Technologies Launches Data Warehouse Toolkit for Hedge Funds

10/6/2009
Data warehouse toolkiit delivers middle-office functions for a complex multi-strategy, multi-counterparty and multi-asset environment.

Instinet Plans to Launch BLX Dark Pool for Crossing Block Trades

10/5/2009
BLX will pool and consolidate small orders from multiple parties into block-size trades faster than peer-to-peer systems, contends Instinet.

High-Frequency Shops Poach Talent From Exchanges and Bulge-Bracket Firms

10/5/2009
Lured by the promise of bigger paydays, many high-profile bulge-bracket traders and exchange executives are making the jump to high-frequency trading shops.

TSE Launches Tdex+System for Options and Market Maker Scheme

10/5/2009
TSE's advanced options trading system is based on Liffe Connect, which improves order processing response to 6 milliseconds.

dbFX Targets Social Media Sites to Attract FX Traders

10/2/2009
dbFX uses social media sites like YouTube, FaceBook and Linkedin to entice FX traders with how to video tutorials.

Speculating on Ken Lewis's Successor

10/1/2009
With all the talk about Bank of America's controversial CEO Ken Lewis announcing that he will step down at the end of the year, media outlets are speculating on the succession race.

NYSE Euronext Appoints IBM Veteran Dominic Cerutti as Deputy CEO

10/1/2009
NYSE Euronext taps Cerutti as both deputy CEO and global head of technology, also overseeing its competitive position in Europe.