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.

NFA to Provide Regulatory Services to GFI's SEF

9/28/2011
GFI is contracting with NFA to provide regulatory and surveillance services to its swaps execution facility, as allowed by the CFTC.

Big Data: The Next New Thing?

9/28/2011
Venture capitalists are investing in "Big Data" companies with analytic platforms, but hasn't Wall Street been doing this for 20 years?

EMC Consulting's Nandavanam on Colocation Trading Strategies

9/27/2011
Prashanth Nandavanam, an expert on quantitative and algorithmic trading with EMC Consulting's financial services practice, recently spoke with Advanced Trading about the buy side's evolving need for low-latency connectivity.

A New Beauty Contest for Hedge Funds

9/27/2011
A study by PerTrac finds that size and age matter in the performance of hedge funds where two years old and less than $100 million in AUM is key.

Resignation of UBS CEO Points to Damage Control

9/26/2011
In ongoing fallout from the UBS rogue trading scandal, CEO Oswald Grubel resigned, paving the way for new leadership.

Fidelity ActionsXchange Launches Subscription-Based Service

9/26/2011
Allows clients to customize their choice of corporate actions data and better control costs.

Thomson Reuters To Sell Kondor Unit

9/23/2011
Vista Equity Partners wins bid to buy the firm's trade processing and risk management unit known as Kondor.

Bloomberg Rolls Out Derivatives Platform

9/22/2011
Bloomberg has launched ALLQ, the first commingled platform for OTC derivatives trading, which it says is the foundation for building a swap execution facility under Dodd-Frank.

CTO Lawrence Campbell Leads Tech Charge at ISE

9/21/2011
As the first all-electronic options exchange, the ISE was built on technology. Since the beginning, CTO Lawrence Campbell has been leading the charge, and along the way, he's been making friends at home and abroad.

State Street to Acquire Pulse Trading

9/21/2011
Financial services giant snatches up Pulse's block trading and blotter sweeping technology, thereby expanding the number of execution venues open to its institutional clients.

ITG Launches Algos for Mexican Equities

9/20/2011
The agency broker is expanding its emerging markets platform in Latin America, citing institutional demand during a volatile period.

Goldman Sachs Taps Redline Trading's Inrush Ticker Plant

9/19/2011
GSET will use Redline's ticker plant for delivering the NBBO data source for matching trades in its dark pool Sigma X.

Rosethal Collins Group Taps Orc Trading's Suite

9/19/2011
RSG will ofer Orc's trading software to global clients for futures spread trading, options on futures trading, and other low latency trading strategies.

DTCC Partners with Clearstream

9/15/2011
Both companies plan to combine DTCC Loan/SERV and Clearstream collateral management to leverage loans as collateral.

BM&FBovespa Will Use Nasdaq OMX's Surveillance Program

9/15/2011
Brazil's largest exchanges and its SRO plan to use Nasdaq OMX's SMARTS Integrity market surveillance program to monitor trading across their equities and commodities platforms.

BOX and ISE Resolve Patent Dispute

9/13/2011
Each options exchange will license the other's technology, according to a settlement agreement.

Orc Shuts Neonet's New York Trading Desk

9/13/2011
Swedish parent consolidates all trading on Stockholm desk for North American and European markets, and takes restructuring charge.

Fidessa Passes Certification Test for Chi-X Australia

9/13/2011
Fidessa is also providing the software and technology infrastructure for ASX Best, a multi-market trading application that allows smart order routing between venues.

Deutsche Bank Launches the Autobahn App Market

9/12/2011
Deutsche bank has redesigned more than 100 of its electronic services, spanning the full trade lifecycle from pre-trade analytics to post-trade services..

Institutional Traders Concerned About HFT —Liquidnet Survey

9/12/2011
Two-thirds of Liquidnet's institutional clients in North America indicated they were concerned about high frequency trading's impact.

Broadridge Acquires Paladyne Systems for $76.5 Million

9/8/2011
Paladyne's integrated front-middle and back-office platform will position Broadridge as a service provider to asset managers and hedge funds.

AlphaFlash Adds 12 Countries to Global Treasury Feed

9/8/2011
Deutsche Borse's new service is aimed at algorithmic traders, asset managers and hedge funds who need a machine-readible format.

RTS Chooses Equinix For New Data Center in Germany

9/7/2011
Enables clients to obtain low latency to Deutsche Borse's Eurex derivatives and Xetra equities markets, which are colocated and hosted at Equinix's Frankfurt data center.

Options Trading Volumes Doubled in August

9/6/2011
Institutions and retail traders turned to equity options as volatiity and uncertainty about the global economy surged.

SEC Approves CBOE to Trade SPXpm on C2 Electronic Platform

9/6/2011
The new SPXpm is identical to CBOE's flagship SPX index options contract, except it has a "P.M." settlement.

First Derivatives Launches Third-Party Vendor Services

9/6/2011
The software and consulting services firm will focus its initial launch on the Calypso capital markets platform.

NYC Hedge Fund Trains Computer to Pick Stocks

9/1/2011
Rebellion Research contends machine-based learning omits the "fear factor" that plagues humans when the market plunges 500 points.

NYSE Euronext Completes Acquisition of Metabit

9/1/2011
Metabit's low-latency market access products will become part of NYSE Technologies' portfolio, and is expected to accelerate its strategy in Asia Pacific.