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.

Dark Pools, Derivatives and HFT Top Buy Side's Regulatory Agenda

12/18/2009
Buy-side traders oppose regulations that hinder high-frequency trading and reduce liquidity in dark pools, but they welcome heightened oversight of derivatives.

LCH.Clearnet Launches Interest-Rate Swaps Clearing Service for Buy-Side

12/17/2009
Institutional investors with USD 146 trillion of additional notional value in interest rate swaps will fro the first time get access to SwapClear.

Loopholes in OTC Derivatives Bill?

12/16/2009
In a video, Tabb Group senior analyst Kevin McPartland discusses loopholes that still remain in the OTC derivatives market reform bill.

Chatham Financial Supports Murphy Amendment in House Derivatives Bill

12/15/2009
The Murphy amendment would limit the definition of "major swap participant" to firms doing a amount of speculative trading or posing a threat to the financial system.

Credit Suisse Goes Live with Traiana for Retail FX

12/14/2009
Credit Suisse will use Traiana's post-trade processing solution to match and aggregate forex trades from retail brokers.

Derivatives Reform Debate Heats Up With House Vote

12/11/2009
As Congress irons out OTC derivatives reform, buy-siders push for transparency, including central clearing and trading on exchanges.

Nord/LB Chooses CQG for High-Volume Futures Trading

12/10/2009
Nord/LB will give customers and internal trading desks access to CQG's electronic trading, decision-making tools and consolidated market data.

Tradeweb Calls Lynch Amendment "Anti-Competitive"

12/9/2009
Tradeweb's CEO Lee Olesky issued the following statement with regard to the Lynch Amendment and its impact on the development of clearinghouses and execution platforms.

RTS Realtime Systems Offers Low-Latency Access to London Stock Exchange Group Markets

12/9/2009
RTS is providing hosted-access to LSE Markets through the RTS London primary and secondary data centers.

The Lynch Amendment Stirs Up Battle in Derivatives Reform

12/8/2009
A battle is brewing over the so-called Lynch Amendment that would block large bank dealers from owning more than 20 percent of an OTC derivatives clearinghouse.

Knight Equity Markets To Become Competitive Market Maker On ISE's Options Exchange

12/8/2009
Knight is developing options market making capabilities as an extension of its equities and fixed income trade execution services.

ISE Picks RCN Metro's Optical Fiber Network

12/7/2009
RCN Metro will connect ISE's data center sites and support migration to ISE's new options trading system, rolling out in Q4 2010.

Merlin Securities Expands Desk With 24-Hour International and Domestic Coverage

12/3/2009
Merlin hires two traders, Troy Prince, formerly with RBC Capital Markets, and John Perna, previously with, J.P. Morgan, to oversee the expanded trading desk.

Broadridge Taps Susan Certoma As SVP and COO

12/2/2009
Former Wachovia CIO will oversee product strategies for Broadridge's Brokerage Processing Services business.

December Deadlines for OTC Derivatives

12/2/2009
December is a big month for deadlines in the OTC derivatives marketplace but don't expect derivatives reform legislation to be finalized any time soon.

Thomson Reuters Adds Company Events to Machine Readable News Offering

12/1/2009
The solution will automatically extract key data from US company press releases in XML format for use in event driven trading strategies.

Thomson Reuters Adds Company Events to Machine Readable News Offering

12/1/2009
The solution will automatically extract key data from US company press releases in XML format for use in event driven trading strategies.