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 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 April 2008

Can Wall Street Learn to Sustain Cost Reduction?

4/14/2008
I had lunch with Bob Gach, global managing director capital markets at Accenture, last week. We chatted about a number of topics but one of the most interesting was Wall Street 's quest for sustainable cost reduction.

Time to End Wall Street IT's Boom and Bust Cycle?

4/14/2008
When the industry was generating huge profits from packaging and trading complex derivatives and needed to launch a system in 30 days, cost didn't matter. But now that the bubble has burst, the industry is more focused on not only how to reduce costs but sustaining the operating model in good times and bad.

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