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.
Articles by Ivy Schmerken
posted in April 2014
4/30/2014
News distributor PR Newswire has agreed to require customers to certify annually that the direct data feeds they receive will not be used for high frequency trading.
4/28/2014
Based on its expertise in options microstructure, VOLEX is unveiling a high-speed liquidity sweep capability for traders known as Take Out.
4/25/2014
A survey conducted by ConvergEx Group found that 70% of participants believe the US equity market isn't fair to all participants.
4/23/2014
As Liquidnet expands into fixed income, Garrett will focus on integrating the pending acquisition of Vega Chi into its ATS technology.
4/21/2014
Requiring brokers to provide more transparency into their stock order routing practices would give investors more information on where their trades are being executed.
4/18/2014
Citi's Total Touch Price tool offers on-demand pricing for investors with large block orders in U.S. stocks, integrated into their execution workflow on the Bloomberg Professional Service.
4/14/2014
ITG's Liquidity Metrics helps portfolio managers and traders to quickly understand trading costs on a daily basis by region and sector.
4/10/2014
Traders agree that market structure and some complex order types are not benefiting investors.
4/8/2014
Sussman will serve as a senior advisor on market structure issues in a global role, providing guidance to Liquidnet's community of buy-side members and clients.
4/7/2014
Two-thirds of buy-side participants see the need for more timely and accurate data as the main driver for considering an integrated IBOR, according to a Charles River survey
4/4/2014
TradeStation and Interactive Brokers said they will offer Brad Katsuyama's IEX as an execution venue to investors, while Charles Schwab spoke out against HFT this week.
4/2/2014
UBS partnered with Lab 49 to develop Neo, a multi-asset platform that provides services to clients and routes to other venues.
4/1/2014
Author Michael Lewis told "60 Minutes" that the computerized, high-frequency stock market is rigged, sending Wall Street into a tizzy.