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.

Higgins Moves to Pulse Trading

2/28/2005
Institutional broker Pulse Trading hired Pete Higgins as head of trading in its Boston headquarters.

Conroy to Head Desk at BNY

2/28/2005
BNY Brokerage has appointed Anthony Conroy, a seasoned buy-side trader, to serve as managing director and head trader.

REDIPlus Tackles FX Trading And Short Sales

2/28/2005
Goldman Sachs has expanded the functionality of its REDIPlus direct-market-access trading platform.

CBOE Banks on Hybrid 2.0

2/28/2005
After recently completing the rollout of its first Hybrid system, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is rolling out the second phase of its hybrid market.

Bloomberg Offers Buy Side a One-Stop Shop

2/28/2005
Bloomberg launched a multibroker execution management system (EMS) that bundles access to brokers' algorithms with pre- and post-trade analysis, trading blotters, and benchmarks to help traders improve their performance.

Spider Webs

2/28/2005
On Jan. 11, executives from the nation's six options exchanges trekked to Washington, D.C., for their annual meeting with the SEC.

Custom-Built

2/27/2005
The demand for separately managed accounts is fueling the financial industry's interest in portfolio manufacturing technology. Wealth managers that automate and implement customized portfolios with assembly-line efficiency are bound to profit from the trend.

Archipelago Adopts Streaming Data Platform

2/17/2005
The growth of automated trading and data message rates is prompting Archipelago Exchange to implement Streambase, an emerging platform for real-time streaming data.

Direct-Market-Access Trading

2/4/2005
The buy side is taking more control of its trading decisions while looking for faster, lower-cost and anonymous executions. Direct market access (DMA) tools permit buy-side traders to access liquidity pools and multiple execution venues directly, without intervention from a broker's trading desk.

Hardware & Software

2/4/2005
As part of the extreme makeover of the National Market System, the SEC's Reg NMS proposes that market centers route orders to the venue that offers the best price.

Pre-Trade Analysis

2/4/2005
Brokers are developing pre-trade analytics in connection with their algorithms to help buy-side customers determine the best algorithms to use.

Algorithmic Trading

2/4/2005
The Issue Defined: Buy-side firms are gravitating toward rules-based systems that are often supplied by brokers.

Reg NMS Tops The CIO Agenda

2/4/2005
The SEC's dramatic plan for revising the market structure may require CIOs to increase bandwidth for depth-of-book data. And, Wall Street will have to modify its trading systems, as well.

EdgeTrade Adds Algorithms to Direct-Market Access Technology

2/3/2005
EdgeTrade launched algorithmic-trading strategies for institutions that use its direct-market-access platform. As algorithms catch on, more agency-only brokers are forming specialties in quantitative trading.