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.

Options IT Goes Live with First HFT Client in LSE's Colo Facility

10/28/2010
Options IT's CEO said London Stock Exchange is building a trading community to ensure diversity at the data center level.

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading Unveils 1CLICK for Options

10/28/2010
Streamlines access to GSET's algorithmic strategies for US options through a simple, inuitive interface.

Access 342 Sells Analysts' Research to Buy Side

10/26/2010
New Dutch-auction model brings transparency to fair market price of analysts' research, unbundled from other equity brokerage products.

Options IT Deploys ACTIV Financial's Low Latency Data Feed

10/25/2010
Options IT expands its offering by adding ACTIVFeed, which is a fully managed low-latency market data solution.

ITG Acquires Majestic Research

10/25/2010
ITG looks to Majestic's independent analysis of companies to provide asset managers with investment ideas that generate excess returns.

Future Trading Desk: Are Machines Taking Over?

10/21/2010
Buy-side traders at the AT Summit shared predicted that computers will do most of the trading, while humans monitor the machines.

ELX Futures Hit Open Interest Milestones in Eurodollar Futures

10/21/2010
Open interest for Eurodollars futures exceeded 80,000 contracts, and OI doubled every month since product launch in June 2010.

Bloomberg VCON Connects Multiple CCPs for IRS

10/21/2010
Bloomberg said VCON is the first provider to connect buy and sell side firms to multiple central clearing counterparties (CCPs) for interest rate swaps (IRS) central clearing.

Cinnober Unveils New Market Model

10/20/2010
Adaptive Micro Auctions can level the playing field among market participants in terms of latency, contends Cinnober.

Deutsche Bank Launches Liquidity Service for Rates Products

10/20/2010
The liquidity service is driven by the bank's Autobahn electronic execution platform and covers the full spectrum of rates products, including interest rate swaps, US Treasuries and US Treasury futures.

Industry Faces Heavy Regulation, Says AT Summit Keynote

10/18/2010
Brokers and hedge funds are bracing for a plethora of new regulations, including the new short selling rule, hedge fund registration and tougher FINRA examinations.

Buy Side Turns to TCA As Defense Against HFT - AT Summit

10/18/2010
Asset managers are using TCA to measure performance of broker algo strategies and to detect gaming by HFT firms, according to panel at AT Summit.

Jeffrey Wecker Departs Lime Brokerage

10/13/2010
Lime's co-founder and chairman Alistair Brown reassumes CEO role.

T. Rowe Price Rolls Out Portware for Global Equities Trading

10/13/2010
Asset manager deploys Portware Enterprise at the firm's London and Hong Kong offices, following rollout in the U.S.

Nasdaq OMX's Third Exchange: Are There Too Many?

10/12/2010
Nasdaq OMX's EVP Transaction Services Eric Noll told CNBC that the innovation it brings is worth the risk of fragmentation.

Quote MTF Releases Internal Latency Measures for Matching Engine

10/12/2010
At the median, Quote MTF's ThymeX matching engine could acknowledge new orders in 142.2 microseconds, and fill new orders within 199.6 microseconds, based on data from Oct. 4th.

U.S. Institutions Are Hopeful, But Not Bullish, On 2011 Recovery of Equity Derivatives Volume

10/12/2010
Average trading volumes in options declined 20 percent while futures volumes declined 35 percent from mid-year 2009 to mid-year 2010.

Nasdaq Launches Third Equities Exchange to Lure Large Orders

10/11/2010
This is first U.S. exchange to offer a price-size-priority model to attract large orders back to the displayed markets.

FIA is Working On Ownership and Control Reporting System

10/11/2010
FIA is proposing its own system as a "practical and cost-effective alternative" to OCR system proposed by the CFTC.

Emergent Goes Live With Tradar

10/11/2010
The global asset manager is using Insight 3.3 and is testing Insight 4.0, the latest iteration, for its FX managed funds.

ConvergEx Expands Transition Management in Asia and Australia

10/8/2010
Hires Ronan Walsh as VP and member of the team providing transition management services throughout Asia and Australia.

CA Cheuvreux Deploys Algorithmic Strategies On Turkish Market

10/8/2010
Rule changes on the Istanbul Stock Exchange allow clients to cancel orders or decrease order sizes without involving a local broker.

OCC Moves into OTC Derivatives Clearing Space

10/7/2010
OCC will take on OTC equity derivatives in the new cleared market, but also confront exclusive index providers,explains OCC EVP Michael McClean in FT video interview.

MarkitSERV To Become Primary Gateway for Central Clearing

10/7/2010
Enhances technology to provide electronic allocation delivery of derivatives trades to clients of BlackRock Solutions' Aladdin system.

Institutions Cautiously Optimistic on European Derivatives

10/7/2010
Despite modest declines in trading volume from the first half of 2009 through mid-year 2010, about 55 percent of European institutions predict their usage of flow equity derivatives will increase in 2011.

SEC-CFTC Flash Crash Report Leaves Experts Unsatisfied

10/5/2010
Many of us have read the long awaited joint SEC-CFTC report on the May 6th Flash Crash. By now everyone knows, that the regulators largely blame the sudden “Flash Crash” on a huge sale of E-mini futures contracts by a single fundamental investor, not named in the report, but which sources have identified as Waddell & Reed Financial, a conservative mutual fund company.

ACTIV Financial Delivers Top of PHLX Options Plus Orders

10/5/2010
ACTIV is the first external data provider to deliver the Nasdaq OMX PHLX premium feed from one of the largest options exchanges, said the company's CEO.

SuperDerivatives Announces SDX Multi-Asset Platform

10/5/2010
SDX will deliver advanced front-office functionality for managing interest rates, currencies, equities, commodities, energy and credit instruments.

The SECs Mission: Proving Its A Fair Game

10/4/2010
wo former SEC Chairmen, Harvey Pitt, Kalorama Partners, and Richard Breeden, Breeden & Co., discussed the future of the SEC, with Maria Bartiromo, of CNBC, covering what the agency has done to restore investor confidence and why circuit breakers, the main course of action, have been problematic.

Hiring Freeze At Morgan Stanley Feeds Fear of Layoffs

10/4/2010
With all sorts of gloom and doom reports about Wall Street hiring freezes and lower trading profits floating around the media today, you would think the sky is falling once again.

Is Dow 12K Going to Pull in the Retail Investor?

10/4/2010
The question on CNBC today was whether Dow 12,000 will cause retail investors to stampede back into the market.

Broadridge Financial Rolls Out Canadian Shareholder Forum

10/4/2010
Corporate shareholders can rely on online tools to submit questions, vote their shares, respond to surveys and interact directly with their corporate issuers year-round.

GFI Group Introduces FENICS Sales for FX Options

10/4/2010
The new release of FENICS Professional version 12.1 offers a complete workflow solutions for sales professionals and traders.

Alembic Global Advisors Partners with HC Securities & Investment

10/1/2010
Independent research firm looks to provide research and trading capabilities on Middle Eastern equities.