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 December 2014

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Financial Services Institutions Gear Up for Social Intelligence

12/12/2014
Social media has mainly been a marketing effort in financial services, and many firms are not tracking ROI. Yet, some are deriving value from analysis of social data, whether it's sentiment analysis for trading or credit risk in lending.

Trad-X SEF Reaches $1T Volume Milestone

12/9/2014
Tradition's SEF Trad-X has seen a sharp increase in trading activity since September for USD interest-rate swaps on its central limit order book, citing its hybrid voice and electronic platform as a differentiator.

Debating Apple's Dive: Flash Crash or Institutional Rebalancing?

12/8/2014
Some market professionals thought Apple's 3% price decline last Monday was a flash crash or an algo run wild. Quants at Rosenblatt Securities analyzed the tick data and came up with a different interpretation.

ICE Licenses Swap Futures Methodology From Eris Exchange

12/5/2014
Intercontinental Exchange plans to begin trading swap futures in 2015 in credit and interest rates based on intellectual property licensed from Eris Exchange. ICE will offer a rival product to cleared OTC swaps.

IPC Systems Looks to Expand Compliance-Related Apps Under New Owner

12/3/2014
Centerbridge Partners LP will look to expand IPC's Unigy software-based trading platform and its mission-critical data and network services.

Jefferies Selects Markit for TCA as a Neutral 3rd Party

12/2/2014
As Jefferies beefs up its algorithmic trading business, the broker chose Markit to provide trading metrics and reports to the buy side.

A Conversation About Bitcoin Exchanges

12/1/2014
Platform providers are drawing upon experience with high-frequency trading and fintech to create infrastructure for virtual currency exchanges.