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 July 2011
7/29/2011
The latest version introduces Multiverb, a messaging transport to handle expanding volumes of data processed by mission critical apps.
7/27/2011
EMS provider's clients get access to fixed-income trading system offered by BGC Partners, while deadline for raising the U.S. debt ceiling llooms.
7/27/2011
Acquisition allows bank to offer Leverate's automated trading solutions to retail and institutional customers, while giving Leverate access to Saxo's liquidity sources in forex.
7/26/2011
With the iPhone and iPad winning the popularity contest among consumers, while BlackBerry stumbles, financial services executives are apt to support multiple devices.
7/26/2011
Sets up network for portfolio managers and buy-and sell-side analysts to share trade ideas.
7/25/2011
The wealth management firm will use the FIX engine to automate the flow of trades between an internal system and ITG's Triton EMS.
7/25/2011
The sell side anxiously is awaiting clarification on the Volcker Rule. Meanwhile, how regulators distinguish proprietary trading from market making and hedging could dampen liquidity for the buy side.
7/25/2011
As cost-effective third-party data centers increasingly become liquidity hubs where exchanges house their matching engines and firms colocate their trading strategies to minimize latency, the traditional data center may be vanishing from the Street.
7/25/2011
Among the criticisms of high frequency trading is the charge that colocating trading strategies in the same data centers as exchange matching engines gives HFT firms an unfair speed advantage.
7/22/2011
The dark pool reports a single-day trading record, following six months of growth when average daily volume was 68 million shares.
7/21/2011
CVC Capital Partners will buy the stake held by GTC. ConvergEx sets aside plans for an I.P.O.
7/20/2011
BofAML Express delivers sub 10-microseconds of wire-to-wire latency with pre-trade risk controls required by SEC rule.
7/20/2011
Mark Benfield will head BGC Market Data from Asia Pacific, taking over for Bernie Weinstein, who will focus on Kleos and intellectual property.
7/19/2011
Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan are tied with 11.5 percent share in insttiutional trading, followed by Goldman and Citi with 10 percent each.
7/19/2011
Plans to focus on consulting for the short-term, related to market structure changes in Europe.
7/18/2011
The new app 'wRD Investor' delivers analysis and reports from three independent research firms.
7/18/2011
Hedge funds and asset managers can reduce and optimize their stock borrow costs.
7/18/2011
Hedge funds need to install monitoring systems to plug gaps in internal controls, says technology executive.
7/14/2011
The alliance will help financial services firms meet record retention and e-discovery guidelines.
7/14/2011
The London-based proprietary trading firm focuses on exchange traded derivatives and spot foreign exchange markets.
7/12/2011
The dark pool is focusing on bringing block liquidity to international exchanges.
7/12/2011
Appoints Michel Finzi, previously with ConvergEx RealTick, to drive product development in U.S. equities and other asset classes.
7/11/2011
SunGard extended its SaaS-based market access services to reach fixed income venues, including EuroTLX, Borsa Italiana's MOT or Hi-MTF.
7/11/2011
As regulators delay writing the final rules for the sweeping Dodd-Frank financial reforms, the Volcker Rule's ban on proprietary trading continues to cause confusion among the investments banks that must comply with the rule.
7/8/2011
The CRM solution for private equity firms is built upon salesforce.com's cloud computing platform.
7/7/2011
Deal will give Lightspeed formidable presence in the equity options markets.
7/7/2011
With derivatives regulations still uncertain, Commissioner Scott O'Malia wants more transparency in the final rule-making process.
7/7/2011
Paolo Gilardi spent 20 years on the buy side, then worked at ING Capital Markets and Credit Agricole, before joining EMS provider TradingScreen to drive FX sales.
7/7/2011
Broker's algos will be available to 2,000 asset managers in the SGN community across 24 European countries.
7/6/2011
Math and computer science experts are drawn to entreprenurial Internet startups. Wall Street regulations don't help.
7/6/2011
Based on an index of companies involved in the cloud computing industry, the ETF reflects the evolution of IT infrastructure.
7/6/2011
Chile, Columbia and Peru chose the FIX standard to create network linking the three exchanges.
7/5/2011
The Benche is offering new iPhone and Android apps for finance professionals.
7/5/2011
With one connection to Direct Edge, the exchange offers clients connectivity to lit and dark markets, saving telco costs.