Profile of Ivy Schmerken

Editor at Large Member Since: 5/8/2014
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Blog Posts: 2629
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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.

Is Buy-Side Order Flow Really Going Dark?

4/30/2012
In the search for liquidity, the buy side increasingly is turning to dark pools. Or is it?

Buy-Side Traders Find Liquidity in Dark Pools

4/30/2012
With U.S. equity volumes in the dumps, the buy side increasingly is searching for liquidity in dark pools, stoking fears about a lack of execution transparency in the opaque markets. But buy-side traders are finding value in the dark -- if they know where to look.

SunGard's Valdi Adds Support for International Options Exchanges

4/30/2012
With options trading volumes increasing, SunGard's Valdi Options Risk Manager now offers firms the ability to manage their overall position risk on options exchanges globally,

SuperDerivatives Hires Morgan Stanley Quant

4/30/2012
The company appointed former Morgan Stanley derivatives expert Raphael Juston to jumpstart the growth of its commodity and energy derivatives solutions.

Celoxica Launches Feed Handlers For Two European Cash Markets

4/24/2012
Expanding its hardware-accelerated feed handlers, Celoxica will support NYSE Euronext and Xetra cash equity markets, and plans to support the Chi-X user migration to the BATS Europe tech platform.

DTCC and EFETnet Launch 1st Global Commodity Swaps Repository

4/19/2012
Submission testing for Dodd-Frank Swap Data Repository (SDR) requirements will begin May 14.

CME Floor Traders Took a Page from Occupy Wall Street

4/18/2012
The battle between floor brokers and the CME heated up again when ex-chairman Leo Melamed defended the exchange's policies, suggesting that blocks will continue to be matched in the dark.

Bloomberg Tradebook Launches Commission Recapture

4/17/2012
The agency broker teamed with financial tech company UAT to launch Boomerang, an algo that boosts trader productivity and enables commission savings for asset owners.

Bloomberg Tradebook Launches Commission Recapture

4/17/2012
The agency broker teamed with financial tech company UAT to launch Boomerang, an algo that boosts trader productivity and enables commission savings for asset owners.

OpenLink Launches CFTC Large Trader Reporting Solution

4/16/2012
Releases comprehensive, XML-based reporting package for clearing members and swap dealers to report physcial commodity and swaption positions to the CFTC under Dodd Frank.

Inside BlackRock's Buy-Side Bond Platform

4/12/2012

Brazilian Market Maker Chooses Orc

4/11/2012
Orc Group's platform was selected by an aggressive Brazilian market -maker Marcelo Sacomori to quote options and futures on the BM&FBovespa exchange.

Dangers of the Dark?

4/10/2012
New statistics from Tabb Group raise concerns about more than a third of U.S. equity volume being executed away from the primary exchanges.

AcadiaSoft Hires COO

4/10/2012
AcadiaSoft named Chris Walsh, an expert in the financial messaging field, as COO of the company, to run the day-to-day affairs.

Dataminr Analyzes Tweets for Actionable Signals

4/9/2012
With its real time analytics engine hooked into the Twitter firehose, Dataminr provides an early warning system for micro-trends geared to enterprise clients in finance and government.

Customer Service Goes Mobile

4/5/2012
Vivisimo rolled out a mobile product that gives customer-facing professionals access to enterpise-wide information via smart phones and tablets.

Daiwa Launched a Dark Pool with SmartTrade's Technology

4/5/2012
Japan's No. 2 brokerage house built a dark pool utilizing SmartTrade's smart order routing engine and execution technology, rather than build from scratch.

Did a Rogue Algo Cause BATS IPO Crash?

4/4/2012
A market data firm traced the crash of BATS' IPO to a single algorithm that executed over 500 times on Nasdaq, driving its price from $15.25 to about two cents in less than a second. 

Did a Rogue Algo Cause BATS IPO Crash?

4/4/2012
Research by a market data firm has traced the crash of BATS' IPO to a single algorithm that executed over 500 times on Nasdaq, driving its price from $15.25 to about two cents in less than a second.

How to Protect Employees' Mobile Devices From Cyber Attacks

4/3/2012
With many financial services employees conducting business on the go, their smartphones and mobile devices increasingly are targets of cyber attackers.

Data Security: Who’s Winning the Cyber War?

4/3/2012
The growing sophistication of cyber attacks and the proliferation of vulnerabilities resulting from the rise of mobile computing are forcing financial institutions to rethink data security and embrace new fraud-fighting techniques and technologies, including real-time monitoring.

Markit Acquires Data Explorers

4/2/2012