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 May 2012
5/31/2012
As the trading slump caused equity brokerage commissions to contract through Q1 2012, institutions upped their research payments to the sell side. But where does that leave electronic trading?
5/30/2012
With rumblings of a Greek exit from the euro zone in the background, two players announced trading platforms for sourcing liquidity.
5/29/2012
To secure the next generation of IT talent, capital markets firms are aggressively recruiting graduates from the top technology schools. But landing a tech job with a Wall Street firm takes more than good grades.
5/29/2012
The industry standards body published revised guidelines today to provide buy-side firms with more consistency and transparency into execution reporting, including enhancements for European equity markets.
5/29/2012
Buy-side traders surveyed by Greenwich Associates gave Credit Suisse 9.5 percent of their U.S. equity trading share, while Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J.P.Morgan tied for second place with 8.9 percent.
5/25/2012
Facebook's botched IPO is the latest example of how small investors often get a raw deal in today's marketplace.
5/24/2012
Technology glitches, insane valuations, secret disclosures and high-frequency trading have all played a part in the Facebook IPO soap opera.
5/22/2012
Omgeo is working with investment managers across Taiwan, including Blackrock, the world's largest money manager, to eliminate inefficiencies and trade fails through same day affirmation of trade details on T+0.
5/21/2012
Offers direct access to Russian equity markets for buy side institutions,following an exchange merger and changes in market structure and settlement procedures.
5/21/2012
Offers direct access to Russian equity markets for buy side institutions,following an exchange merger and changes in market structure and settlement procedures.
5/18/2012
To boost the productivity of its most skilled financial advisers, Merrill Lynch partnered with Charles River to customize a browser-based portfolio trading platform. By Ivy Schmerken
5/17/2012
Users have no patience for clunky document management systems, so it was refreshing to discover that Rosenblatt Securities and Blackstone Group are using Watchdox, a user-friendly way to secure documents.
5/17/2012
Hedge fund chooses SS&C's web-enabled Form PF application for compliance with a new rule that requires investment advisers and private funds to provide data to the Financial Stability Oversight Council for monitoring systemic risk.
5/15/2012
Brokerage firms are developing apps for the iPad and other Android-alternative tablets, but they should take advantage of the larger screen display and compute power to offer more than what's on a smartphone.
5/14/2012
In a move to eliminate spreadsheets and reduce operational risk, Guggenheim chose Milestone Group's pControl platform to automate the production and control of net asset values.
5/10/2012
Top schools are producing quants and Wall Street recruiters are out in force, but is the street hiring these newly minuted graduates?
5/10/2012
Emphasizing security and entitlement, vMobile positions Netik to extend the reach of its data management solutions to iPads, Androids and Blackberry Playbook devices.
5/9/2012
Reuters FX Buzz will provide "pithy" summaries and commentary on how events impact the FX market, and will be delivered through Thomson Reuters Eikon and Reuters 3000 Xtra platforms.
5/8/2012
The firm says its new SMA platform will offer long/short equity hedge fund strategies to investment advisors without the high minimums and limited liquidity of traditional hedge funds.
5/8/2012
A new platform promises to offer long/short equity hedge fund strategies to investment advisors without the high minimums and limited liquidity of traditional hedge funds.
5/7/2012
Based on its SaaS-based model, TradingScreen is providing real-time TCA for multiple asset classes, including FX, to help traders control costs in a fragmented liquidity environment.
5/4/2012
Nasdaq OMX will launch BX Options in June with a new trading platform aimed at retail customer orders, boosting the number of options patforms it offers to three.
5/3/2012
As a sign of hedge fund adoption of cloud-based IT services, Eze Castle Integrationhas more than 2,000 users at 600 hedge funds on its private cloud, surpassing over a pedabyte of data.
5/2/2012
5/2/2012
Doubles its presence in Chicago area to provide machine readible news feed to automated traders colocated in the CME facility.
5/1/2012
New event-driven hedge fund implements Imagine's cloud-based service for portfolio and risk mangement on equity and distressed debt-related instruments.
5/1/2012
The pan-European equity markets operator completed the migration of Chi-X Europe's order books over to the BATS Europe technology, recording 24 percent market share yesterday.
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