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.

ICAP Revenues Exceed 1.5 Billion British Pounds

3/31/2009
Interdealer broker sees opportunity to hire high quality people and acquire assets at attractive prices.

Orange Business Services Connects to Chi-X Europe

3/30/2009
Adds new liquidity pools to help customers meet best execution requirements under MiFID.

Savvis Connects with Chi-X Canada and Turquoise MTF

3/30/2009
Expands global footprint in response to demand for low-latency access to liquidity venues.

Jeromee Johnson Leaves 3D Markets; Heads to BATS Exchange

3/27/2009

BATS Exchange Cuts Fees

3/27/2009
BATS reduces the rebate on trading stocks under $5 and lowers route fee to NYSE.

CME Expands Views of Order Book Data

3/26/2009
Uses FIX/FAST protocol to transmit more data with less bandwidth.

ISE Proposes Regulatory Reforms

3/26/2009
Recommends risk-based regulatory framework to address regulatory gaps.

Burgundy Selects BT Radianz for Connectivity and Market Data

3/25/2009
Nordic MTF says BT Radianz Market Infrastructure provides easy access to financial community and meets its delivery timetable.

Treasury Lacks Staff and Software To Run Toxic Asset Plan

3/24/2009
The real work of implementing the plan is going to involve putting in some infrastructure and hiring professionals with expertise in pricing bank debt and complex mortgages.

NYSE Euronext Reduces Fees for Trading Pan-European Cash Markets

3/24/2009
Integrated fee structure ties in with trading on NYSE Arca Europe and SmartPool.

Catalina Partners Launches As Independent Risk Advisory Firm

3/23/2009
Addresses hedge fund due diligence, screening for fraud and broad array of risk management needs.

Hardware Acceleration Is On the Radar Screen, Say Low-Latency Experts.

3/20/2009
Wall Street is filling up its low-latency toolbox with CEP, co-location and messaging middleware.

Spitzer Weighs In on A.I.G.'s Payments to Trading Counterparties

3/19/2009
It shouldn't be a surprise that AIG had to make payments to financial institutions that were its counterparties on the other side of credit derivatives or mortgage pools it sold to them.

BIDS Trading Integrates with Advent's Moxy OMS

3/19/2009
Advent's clients could search for block liquidty in both BIDS ATS and NYBX.

UBS Wealth Management Americas Picks Thomson Reuters News

3/17/2009
News will be integrated into the firm's ConsultWorks platform.

Battlelines Are Drawn As CME/Citadel Win SEC Approval for CDS Clearinghouse

3/17/2009
Turf war breaks out as clearing in credit default swaps gets underway.

Nasdaq OMX Europe Intends to Launch Dark Pool

3/17/2009
Neuro Dark will address all order sizes, not just block or large in scale orders.

Sybase Embeds CEP Engine into RAP Analytic Platform

3/16/2009
Licenses Coral8 code to target real-time streaming data

CME Group Deploys Corvil's Latency Management System

3/16/2009

Nasdaq OMX Signs MOU with Taiwan Futures Exchange

3/13/2009
Nasdaq OMX seeks to boost its position in Asia-Pacific region.

Madoff's Guilty Plea: Did He Reveal Accomplices?

3/12/2009
The big question is will Madoff walk out a free man and go back to his Manhattan penthouse to await sentencing?

SIX Swiss Exchange fines Dresdner Bank AG London Branch

3/12/2009
Bank violated rules on reporting off-order book trades with a delay of five days.

Wall Street Accelerates Options Analysis With GPU Technology

3/11/2009
Wall Street firms turn to NVIDIA's graphics processing units to speed up options analytics and derivatives pricing.

ELX Gears up for Live Futures Trading in June

3/11/2009
Plans to start testing of high-speed electronic system in May.

Switch & Data Hires Panzica to Spearhead Financial Services Practice

3/10/2009
Targets collocation services for electronic trading with new data center in North Bergen, New Jersey

ICE Trust Begins Clearing Credit Default Swaps

3/10/2009

NYSE Arca Europe Began Trading Today Via Universal Trading Platform

3/9/2009
New pan-European MTF promises low, cost, high speed access to most liquid European stocks.

Algo-Friendly Dark Pools Piece Together Block Trades

3/6/2009
Broker-owned dark pools are rolling out block trading features that compete with traditional block crossing networks.

Brokers Are More Pessimistic; TIM Long Short Index Falls 28 Percent

3/6/2009
New short trade ideas increased to 42 percent from 34 percent in week before.

Buzz On CCA Consortium Platforms: Announcement Imminent

3/5/2009
A consortium of brokers is working on consolidating commission platform that will manage sensitive data.

UBS Introduces Real-time TCA in Europe

3/5/2009
Analytic tool allows buy-side to affect the order's outcome while trades are still active.

Smart Algo Routers Target Complex Market Structure

3/4/2009
Louis Capital Markets launches Alpharithms to help buy-side firms pick the best-performing algo strategies.

TABB Group Report Pinpoints Misconceptions vs. Reality in CDS Market

3/4/2009
Central clearing initiatives will allow trades in from other execution platforms.

Concept Capital Unveils Multi-Prime Service Platform

3/3/2009

Sales Traders Are Back in Vogue Amid Volatile Markets

3/3/2009
In search of 'advocates on every trade,' the buy side increasingly is tapping sales traders to find the other side of block trades or to work orders via algorithms, direct market access and dark pools.

NYFIX Migrates Millennium Dark Pool to HPX Architecture

3/3/2009
Performance gains expected to attract latency-sensitive order flow to pool.