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 March 2010
3/31/2010
Social investing site Covestor.com has attracted top wealth managers, such as Navelier & Associates, and four other established investment firms, allowing everyday investors to mirror their moves.
3/31/2010
In response to Lehman Brothers' "Repo 105" accounting gimmick to shift debt off its balance sheet, Senator Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) vows to weed out fraud on Wall Street.
3/31/2010
New investments enable continued product innovation, and expansion of the company's sales and customer support infrastructure.
3/30/2010
nday, March 29, to bring security and transparency to OTC derivatives markets.
3/29/2010
While it is doubtful that the Volcker Rule will pass as is, it already is having an effect on banks, which are spinning off proprietary trading desks.
3/29/2010
Instinet's Meet the Street will automatically match CEOs and CFOs with institutional investors to arrange non-deal roadshows in U.S. cities.
3/29/2010
Commodities traders increasingly are adopting algorithms, but these aren't the equity markets' automated trading strategies, as commodities algos often make room for human discretion. By Ivy Schmerken
3/29/2010
Quod Financial will provide new online trading platform for retail and high-net worth investors in Kuwait.
3/25/2010
While Congress hammers out details of OTC derivatives reform, buy-side firms and dealers are working to connect to central counterparty clearinghouses to enable central clearing and reduce counterparty risk.
3/25/2010
Rather than build connections to multiple central counterparty clearinghouses, many buy-side firms will rely on third-party services to bridge the gap in OTC derivatives clearing.
3/25/2010
I recently spoke with Jonathan Greenberg, CEO of OCE Interactive, the developer of Market Topographer, an interactive Web-based platform for benchmarking and valuation analysis of U.S. stocks.
3/25/2010
Liquidnet ranked first in three major categories, from Q4 2008 through Q3 2009.
3/25/2010
Releases LimeInside with pre-trade risk controls for sponsoring brokers to aggregate risk across multiple destinations.
3/24/2010
Operator of cash and derivatives markets deploys nGenius Assurance Solution to track order messages, market data feeds as well as the performance of communications protocols.
3/23/2010
Super X enables the client to manage access to dark liquidity, while avoiding adverse selection and minimizing the trade footprint, according to Deutsche Bank.
3/22/2010
he debate over financial reform is heating up today, as the banking committee begins amending Sen. Christopher Dodd's bill today.
3/22/2010
ISE members can define hard limits for their own FIX connections and those
of their sponsored access clients.
3/22/2010
Releases ultra low latency feed handlers for the LSE, BATS Europe and Chi-X Europe..
3/19/2010
NYSE Euronext will distribute Bloomberg Open Symbology (BSYM) for NYSE-listed companies, to support need for open standards in reference data.
3/18/2010
Lehman used the so-called Repo 105 tactic to remove $50 billion in debt from its balance sheet.
3/18/2010
Lentchner is responsible for overseeing BTIG's operations in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia.
3/17/2010
3/16/2010
Credit Suisse has enabled all of its AES algorithms to sweep both lit and dark destinations simultaneously for block liquidity.
3/16/2010
PulsePro plans to apply intelligence gathering of news feeds to algorithmic trading.
3/11/2010
Using 70 different risk metrics, MS PORT optimizes execution at the portfolio level.
3/10/2010
BOX will migrate matching engine to Equinix facility where ISE and c2 are located, taking advantage of cross-connects of market participants there.
3/9/2010
Credit default swaps have returned to the headlines as European politicians blame the derivatives for exacerbating Greece's economic crisis.
3/9/2010
London-based start-up will use Orc for flow/proprietary trading of fixed income derivatives on Eurex and NYSE Euronext Liffe.
3/8/2010
Former head trader at Prudential Equity Group joins Baird's Stamford office to expand program trading capabilities.
3/8/2010
With LME record volumes, up 72 percent in 2010, Brady sees surge in electronic trading, hedging and risk management of steel futures contracts.
3/5/2010
Partners with Paladyne Systems for order management, data aggregation and risk analysis and reporting.
3/4/2010
In response to the economic downturn, DST Global Solutions is offering a broad range of consulting services via its investment management solutions business.
3/3/2010
The company uses passive fiber wavelengths to meet the data requirements of high frequency traders, market makers and buy-side customers.
3/2/2010
Buy-side users will be able to value all fixed income and derivatives instruments in their portfolios through the entire LatentZero solution.
3/1/2010
Will an SEC proposal to identify dark pools in real-time trade reports do more harm than good?
3/1/2010
Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolus, appeared on CNBC this morning to talk about his new book, "No One Would Listen: A Financial Thriller," even admitting that he had a plan to kill Madoff.
3/1/2010
The former unit of Abel Noser Corp. launched Trade Compass as the first part of a decision to migrate all of its TCA products and services to the Internet by early 2010.
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