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 April 2008

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Ballista Unveils Electronic Platform to Aggregate Options Liquidity In Fragmented Market

4/21/2008
Ballista Unveils Electronic Platform to Aggregate Options Liquidity in Fragmented Market

BATS Picks Savvis to Host European Equity Trading Platform

4/15/2008
BATS is counting on Savvis' Dockland's data center to deliver high-speed trading in European equities.

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.

Putnam Investments Sees Competitive Advantage in Building OTC Derivatives Pricing Engine In-House

4/11/2008
To verify prices from brokers and other outside sources, Putnam Investments developed an internal OTC derivatives valuation engine using grid computing.

Buy Side Seeks Independent Valuation Providers for OTC Derivatives After Credit Crisis

4/11/2008
With the credit markets in turmoil over OTC derivatives valuations, buy-side firms are tapping vendors to avoid the conflict of interest inherent in broker-determined prices.

Treasury's Plan for Regulatory Overhaul Annoints the Fed As Wall Street's Supercop

4/8/2008
Everyone says with the Fed giving investment banks the right to borrow funds at the discount window, this has opened up Wall Street firms to more regulatory scrutiny.

BATS Trading Criticizes NYSE Arca's New Fee Schedule

4/8/2008
BATS CEO Calls for Transparency in NYSE Arca's New Fee Schedule for Equity Trading

Julio Gomez Departs Financial Insights to Launch Gomez Markets

4/3/2008
Gomez is developing a new model for market intelligence in capital markets.