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 July 2009
7/30/2009
Complaint charges that funds were transferred directly to Ruth Madoff from Bernard Madoff's securities business during the past six years or to companies that she was an investor in.
7/29/2009
European bank chooses FxAll to provide sophisticated strategies to client base of major pension funds and asset managers.
7/28/2009
New York Senator Charles Schumer is weighing in on the use of flash orders by high frequency traders, and even asking the SEC to ban the practice.
7/28/2009
CME CEO Cautions CFTC On Position Limits for Energy Futures Trading
7/27/2009
Draws on live Treasury prices from BondDesk ATS and TechHacker's library of add-in calcuations for Excel.
7/27/2009
The social networking site's survey showed that 92 percent of traders and investors view current market opportunities as opportunity and not a threat.
7/23/2009
With the government pressing for more transparency into OTC derivatives, how could it be that energy participants are still hunting for information in the dark?
7/23/2009
Solution will permit buy-side participation in ICE credit default swap clearing facility and provide segregation of customer funds and positions.
7/22/2009
SIFMA throws its support bending Obama Administration's plan to create a single, systemic risk supervisor and Financial Services Oversight Council.
7/22/2009
Retail investors replicate different models inside an MMA, with transparent access to their account.
7/22/2009
Hires Bob Davis from BNP Paribas in London to manage forwards, interest rate swaps and EFP broking.
7/22/2009
ICAP combines its market data with FINCAD's finanical analytics to create independent derivatives valuation service.
7/21/2009
Institutions returned to algorithmic trading after a chaotic period when strategies performed performly.
7/20/2009
The key changes are removing market capitalization buckets for the US equity model and the addition of ETF specific-calculations to the new model.
7/20/2009
Hires Valerie Bannert-Thurner, formerly of Skyler, to spearhead European expansion.
7/20/2009
Direct technical connection provides latency-sensitive clients with fastest possible access to highly liquid execution venue.
7/17/2009
Warns that split jurisdiction of SEC and CFTC introduces unnecessary complications into regulation of products, including OTC derivatives.
7/16/2009
BlackRock's deal for BGI will create the world's largest money manager. But integrating BGI's automated electronic trading and transaction cost analysis technology with BlackRock's Aladdin system will require a world-class effort.
7/16/2009
Allows financial institutions to create internal and external reports for regulators from a single data source.
7/16/2009
CMA sources data on credit default swaps from over 30 buy-side firms.
7/15/2009
Complaints from competitors and clients were a factor in the investigation of the credit derivatives pricing supplier, reports say.
7/15/2009
Agreement calls for tighter integration between cash equity market for trading and related market for stock loan.
7/14/2009
Even after the firm paid back the $10 billion it owed to the government for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), it still did better than analysts were expecting.
7/14/2009
Instinet's U.S. subsidiary sees volume spike in algorihmic strategies, but 2.8 percent decline overall.
7/14/2009
Fidelity's clearing firm seeks to capitalize on wave of brokers/advisers leaving wirehouse firms and are joining independent broker-dealers who need wealth management tools.
7/13/2009
President Obama's proposed regulatory reforms would require hedge funds to register with the SEC and provide data on their market exposure.
7/13/2009
As the bulge bracket firms retreat, agency brokers make bold moves into fixed income and derivatives could be next.
7/13/2009
New connection from GlobalVision to LCH.Clearnet automates OTC cleared workflow, without manual entry of trades.
7/13/2009
New members of NYSE Euronext-led dark pool include: Credit Suisse, Exane, Instinet Europe, Investment Technology, among others.
7/10/2009
Citadel alleges the formation of new firm Teva Technologies violates non-compete agreements.
7/10/2009
RTS's co-locates algo platform to provide low-latency access to U.S. Treasury futures via BGC's eSpeed platform, along side ELX Futures.
7/9/2009
The case sheds light on the secret world of high frequency trading, but also attests to the security precautions taken by investment banks.
7/9/2009
Institutions shift 36 percent of volume to electronic platforms in 2008-2009, up from 32 percent in 2007-2008.
7/8/2009
Susquehanna Securities is the specialist for the index, which is comprised of 30 Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges.
7/7/2009
Noll joins from Susquehanna International Group; he succeeds Chris Concannon who left Nasdaq OMX in April.
7/2/2009
The fact that there's a mystery buyer strikes Tzvee's Talmudic Blog as another example of Merkin's murky dealings.
7/2/2009
Replaces SuperDOT with NYSE Super Display Book to drive latency into the single digits.
7/1/2009
The FIX protocol will evolve as the world moves to reduced product complexity, greater regulation, increasing volumes and lower margins, stated Parry.
7/1/2009
Bloomberg expands the multi-broker, options EMSX to reach 20 options execution destinations, including smart order routers.
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