Profile of Ivy Schmerken
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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.
Articles by Ivy Schmerken
posted in March 2014
3/27/2014
In a Q&A with Wall Street & Technology, Fraser talks about IEX's fair access model, buy-side ownership structure, broker neutrality and why it's different from other venues.
3/26/2014
Applying the crowdsourcing method to mergers and acquisitions, Mergerize looks to bring value to traders, quants, investment bankers, corporations and the virtual rumor mill.
3/25/2014
CitiFX TradeStream is partnering with Deltix to provide an integrated algo-trading solution hosted in the Equinix NY 4 data center, allowing traders to backtest their strategies against real-time streaming data.
3/24/2014
Terra, the operator of a U.S.-based swap execution facility, said it's critical for bitcoin market participants to have tools to hedge their price risk against any currency.
3/21/2014
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office turns up the heat on high-frequency traders and their "unfair" advantages. Traders are fighting back.
3/20/2014
Dissatisfaction with quality of service is the most common reason cited by hedge funds for changing their fund administrators, according to a Preqin study.
3/19/2014
Drawing on its relationships with global asset managers, Liquidnet has acquired bond trading platform Vega-Chi to build an institutional size liquidity pool for corporate bonds.
3/18/2014
Thomson Reuters built Block Connect to enable sell-side firms to post natural block liquidity to their buy-side clients and meet their need for anonymity.
3/17/2014
The new AlphaFlash Risk Signal can help traders adjust their strategies and risk management systems in advance of an economic release.
3/13/2014
A defense attorney suggested that Liz Weintraub, Madoff's deceased former head of IT, helped devise the deceptive code that enabled the Ponzi scheme, and not his clients, two ex-programmers.
3/11/2014
Christopher Nagy teamed with Dave Lauer to relaunch KOR Group, focusing on data-backed research, while lobbying for more transparency in U.S. equities market structure.
3/10/2014
Regulated by the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority, the new subsidiary will house Thomson Reuters' portfolio of 160 global benchmarks, as it prepares for stricter global regulations.
3/6/2014
Seeking a foothold in U.S. fixed-income trading markets, Europe's MTS, struck a deal to acquire Bonds.com, an electronic platform for corporate and emerging market bonds.
3/6/2014
Kellner is taking on the CEO position at a time when Instinet has become the equity execution arm of Nomura Group, and is playing a key strategic role in its global equities franchise.
3/5/2014
Large traditional asset management firms are seeking to hire quantitative professionals to tackle data intensive analysis of trading costs, venues and alpha modeling, according to Tabb Group's report.
3/4/2014
With traders demanding access to e-fixed income markets, TT connected with Nasdaq OMX's newly acquired eSpeed, mending a rift that blocked access to liquidity in Treasury securities.
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