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.

Deltix Launches Hosted HFT Quant Trading Solution

3/31/2011
The solution, hosted by Investment Technology Group, allows clients to create, backtest and deploy quant trading strategies with connectivity to global destinations.

J.P. Morgan Executes and Clears CDS and IRS Trades Via Bloomberg Professional

3/30/2011
The news reflects that Bloomberg's fixed income business is preparing to register as a swap execution facility with the CFTC and SEC.

BlockCross Hires Ex-Liquidnet Sales & Trading Executive

3/30/2011
Patrick DeGroat joined BlockCross, a rival alternative trading system that Liquidnet had accused of patent infringement.

Predictive Analytics Arms the Buy Side Against HFT

3/29/2011
Buy-side traders can use streaming data on stocks to capture short-term alpha and avoid adverse selection, says Pipeline's Henri Waelbroeck.

Tibco Unveils Extreme Low-Latency Messaging Technology

3/29/2011
Targeted at banks, hedge funds and exchanges, Tibco FTL claims to be 40 percent faster than competitors like Informatica, IBM and Solace.

BATS to Become Listings Venue, Challenging NYSE and Nasdaq

3/29/2011
Files rules with SEC to launch a listings program in U.S. stocks, offering a competitive alternative to incumbent exchanges.

OTC Derivatives Coming Under Regulatory Scrutiny

3/28/2011
After operating for years in the shadows, over-the-counter derivatives are coming under scrutiny from regulators. While some critics fear fragmented markets will dry up liquidity, others worry about the details of clearing. What's in it for the buy side?

Spread Networks Clocks Latency Under 14.75 Milliseconds

3/28/2011
The telecom provider further reduced the latency on its Ethernet wave service between Chicago and all the market center execution points in New Jersey.

Citi Clears First U.S. Client Interest Rate Derivatives Trade on LCH.Clearnet

3/25/2011
The move reflects Citi's commitment to a consolidated, global and platform-agnostic approach to central clearing.

Hedge Funds Bet on Asia Pacific

3/24/2011
While the aftershocks of Japan's earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis continue to unfold, hedge funds are sprouting up in Asia Pacific and U.S. investors are buying Japanese ETFs.

Fidelity Moves Buy-Side Trader Brian Conroy to Head Up Capital Markets

3/24/2011
Conroy succeeds Mark Haggerty, Fidelity Capital Markets' former president who was named head of new product development across Fidelity's institutional businesses.

Merger Mania: Bigger Is Not Always Better

3/23/2011
Stirring up national passions and regulatory obstacles, a slew of cross-border deals that threaten the survival of national stock exchanges are in the works.

Knight Names Sohos to Head Electronic Trading Group

3/23/2011
Knight plans to expand client market making and principal trading activities across geographies and asset classes.

J.P. Morgan Worldwide Services Issues Guide for Hedge Fund Start Ups in Asia

3/21/2011
Provides advice on launching a hedge fund in Asia, including regulatory issues, fee structure, service provider selection and technology systems and processes.

Traiana Launches Central Clearing Connectivity for FX Derivatives

3/21/2011
Citi is the first client to use the central clearing service, Harmony CCP Connect, for the bank's FX prime brokerage trades.

The Associated Press Joins Forces with RavenPack

3/17/2011
RavenPack will develop sentiment analysis products that process A.P.'s market-moving content or use in quantitative trading and investment models.

Bloomberg Breaks $1Trillion Record for Electronic Swaps Trading in 2011

3/17/2011
With plans to register as a swaps execution facility in 2011, Bloomberg's fixed income platform is seeing extensive participation from 23 dealers and 450 buy-side firms in interest-rate and credit default swaps trading.

Brandywine Global Taps Eagle Investment Systems

3/16/2011
Chooses Eagle Access, a hosted solution for data management, investment accounting and performance measurement, to replace existing installed vendor.

Direct Edge CTO Steps Down

3/15/2011
The exchange operator said Steven Bonnano will leave the company in May and that a search for candidates has commenced.

Deutsche Bank Shaves Trade Latency Down to 1.25 Microseconds

3/15/2011
Offering a new hardware-based DMA technology to high frequency shops, the bank said it's breaking the speed barrier of software-based solutions.

Goldenberg Hehmeyer Extends Contract with Orc Software

3/15/2011
Proprietary trading firm to use Orc Liquidator engine to support its ETF market making operations and access to exchanges.

Nomura Makes A Play for U.S. Electronic Trading Business

3/14/2011
Nomura Makes A Play for U.S. Equity Business

Liquidnet Hires Geissler for Corporate Market

3/14/2011
Institutional equity marketplace targets corporate market in which companies buy back or issue stock.

Custom Algos Growing in Popularity

3/10/2011
Today's buy-side trader needs made-to-order formulas for pursuing alpha, and the algo designers are scurrying to meet the demand.

Algo Technologies Goes Live With Colo to LSE Markets

3/10/2011
This enables the high frequency and algo trading community via the LSE Group data center, to access Turquoise and eventually the other LSE markets on the MillenniumIT platform.

SEC's Ethics Under Scrutiny

3/9/2011
Congress wants to know why the SEC hired an attorney with a financial interest in the Madoff fraud, and did he reverse the agency's view on how to compensate victims.

ICAP Launches Financial Tech Incubator

3/9/2011
Euclid Opportunities will offer a seed funding and acceleration program to early-stage companies in post-trade risk management, data and other financial market applications.

Global Derivatives Volumes Soared 25 Percent in 2010

3/8/2011
Reforms in OTC derivatives markets are causing participants to shift their risks to exchange-traded derivatives, says WFE Chairman.

DZPrivateBank Deploys TraderTools for FX

3/8/2011
Luxembourg-based German bank chooses Liquidity Management Platform to boost competitive edge, reduce risk and increase automation.

Liquidnet Partners With Fidessa On Block Trading

3/8/2011

Nasdaq OMX Launches Genium INET Web Trade

3/7/2011
The new trading app will first be implemented on Nasdaq OMX's Commodities Europe, the power and carbon derivatives exchange.

Bonds.com Raises $6.5 Million

3/3/2011
New ATS for professional fixed income traders receives additional financing from Oak Investment Partners and GFINet to focus on small-size executions.

Newedge Connects to Johannesburg Stock Exchange's Derivatives Markets

3/2/2011
Expands FIX connectivity network to give clients access to JSE's FTSE/JSE Top 40 index futures contract as well as agricultural contracts.

Thomson Reuters Teams With Redkite On Market Surveillance

3/1/2011
Redkite's market surveillance solution will pull in Thomson Reuter's news and data, while running in the Elektron hosted environment.

PhilipCapital Partners With RTS Realtime Systems Group

3/1/2011
Plans to offer low-latency algo trading solutions to institutional trading houses via the Singapore Exchange's platform.