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.
Articles by Ivy Schmerken
posted in August 2010
8/31/2010
In building out their research capabilities, agency brokers are encroaching on the bulge bracket's turf.
8/31/2010
As agency brokers expand into the alternative research area, they are becoming alpha generators, which turns out to be a more stable, if not growing, piece of the total commission pie.
8/31/2010
Cross Research's analysts provides focuses on the global tech sector.
8/31/2010
Knight Direct will offer its suite of execution algorithms to Orc's trading customers.
8/30/2010
French investment manager selects unified CEP and Database system rather than multiple systems.
8/30/2010
Supports regulatory harmony between the European Commissions proposals and the U.S Dodd-Frank Bill's private clearing initiatives.
8/26/2010
Shareholders who own at least three percent of a company's shares continuously for the prior three years, would be eligible to nominate directors to a company's board.
8/26/2010
Equity exchange surpassed 100 million shares in daily volume for the first time since it was launched in 2007.
8/26/2010
The broker will offer Retail Service Provider (RSP) trading to users of +TRADER.
8/25/2010
Tivo to improve the visual experience and interactive nature of NasdaqMarketSite.
8/25/2010
Hong Kong's monetary authority will use the system to trade across multiple asset classes, while monitoring the underlying risks in real time.
8/24/2010
The Japanese brokerage firm picked Fidessa for its high-performance capabilities and its hosted-Software-of-As-Service solution.
8/23/2010
The IQ/MAX Turret will provide specialized communication applications for GFI's brokers in Santiago, Chile.
8/23/2010
Colt is now offering a measured latency of 4.22 milliseconds between London and Frankfurt and 2.65 milliseconds between Paris and Brussels.
8/19/2010
Appointment of JP Morgan executive reflects commitment to buy-side OTC derivatives clearing offering.
8/18/2010
The technology provides real-time cross-market risk management and surveillance at a time when regulators are pondering new mandates for sponsored and naked access.
8/17/2010
Cites the unknown causes of the May 6th 'flash crash' and the complexity of fragmented trading venues as reasons.
8/17/2010
With commissions growing ever tighter on the execution side, agency brokers are entering the research business to capture a larger share of the buy side's alpha-generation wallet.
8/17/2010
With the addition of Platts' end-of-day data sets, customers can do all of their analysis within the CQG environment.
8/17/2010
BATS received SEC approval to operate a second US equities exchange last Friday, putting it on a level playing field with NYSE and Nasdaq.
8/16/2010
Joint offering will give non-members a real-time, low latency alternative to OPRA consolidated feed.
8/11/2010
In today's increasingly volatile markets, buy-side firms are arming their trading desks with near-real-time transaction cost analysis tools to adjust their strategies intraday and combat the edge enjoyed by high-frequency traders.
8/11/2010
ESP Technologies offers post-trade ticket aggregation for equities, helping buy-side firms lower settlement costs as they seek best execution in a fragmented market.
8/11/2010
In a complex trading environment, transaction cost analysis tools will help the buy side capture alpha, SJ Levinson's senior managing director and head of the quantitative research and trading team.
8/11/2010
New SYNC TCA system offers pre- and post-trade analytics in a single platform.
8/9/2010
DTCC's Rob Hegarty explains Depository Trust Clearing Corp.'s role during the Lehman Brother's crisis and reveals how the utility is evolving to meet the buy side's needs.
8/4/2010
Institutional broker partners with independent research provider of investor perception research.
8/4/2010
The patent covers the proprietary technology and methodology allowing users to pool and manage their commission dollars from multiple executing brokers and authorize payment of research invoices.
8/3/2010
Smith joins Citi after ten years with Credit Suisse where he was head of AES in Asia Pacific.
8/3/2010
Agency broker will use SuperFeed to more cost effectively offer pre-and post-trade TCA tools to customers.
8/3/2010
CQG's hosted trading gateways enable traders to route orders to TurkDEX and manage both inter-and intra-exchange spread strategies.
8/2/2010
CNBC moderated a debate between two panelists on the question of whether high frequency trading should be slowed down.
8/2/2010
Last week, Elizabeth King, a long-time regulator at the Securities and Exchange Commission, joined the electronic market making firm's regulatory staff, raising questions about the ethics of such a move.
8/2/2010
The problem is that mergers of banks and brokers will lead to redundancies in the backoffices and other areas, causing massive layoffs across the country.
8/2/2010
SmartPool's focus has been on Europeans blue chip securities, but now it's moving into European mid-caps, where liquidity is scarce and completing larger trades is more complex.
8/2/2010
Kicking off 2010 with consolidation, FXall, an online foreign exchange marketplace, said it would purchase LavaFX from Citigroup to become the multi-bank destination for the active trader market.
8/2/2010
The U.S. Senate passed the financial reform bill last Thursday, though I'm not sure that there are any champagne corks popping on Wall Street.
8/2/2010
He will expand Netik's role into delta one trading data, managed reference data services and data warehousing.