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Request for Participation: FIX-FpML Collaboration Working Group
FPL Program Office / FIX Protocol Ltd. <>
2 Nov 2006 3:24PM ET

FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) are pleased to announce the reactivation of the FIX-FpML Collaboration Working Group. This working group is a joint effort between both organizations to improve interoperability between the two standards. Under its new charter the FIX-FpML Collaboration WG will continue to work on the technical interoperability between the FpML, FIX and FIXML protocols and the normalized representation of common components. Goals include guidelines for using the protocols together for pre-trade and trade execution and guidelines for referencing a FIX/FIXML trade within FpML and an FpML trade within FIX/FIXML. The working group will meet by conference call on Fridays at 8:00 AM Eastern Time. The first call is planned for Friday, November 17, 2006. The working group has web pages at http://www.fpml.org/wg/wglist/fixwg.html and http://www.fixprotocol.org/working_groups/fpmlwg.

FPL members may request to participate by sending an e-mail to fpl@fixprotocol.org or calling + 1 212 652 4469.

About FIX Protocol Ltd
FIX Protocol Ltd is a non-profit organisation that owns the intellectual property rights of the Financial Information eXchange Protocol (FIX), which is available free of charge from the FPL website, subject to FPL’s copyright and acceptable use policy. FIX is a globally recognised messaging standard enabling the electronic communication of pre-trade and trade messages between financial institutions, primarily investment managers, broker/dealers, ECNs and exchanges. For more information, see www.fixprotocol.org.

About FpML
FpML (Financial products Markup Language) is the freely licensed business information exchange standard for electronic dealing and processing of privately negotiated derivatives and structured products. It establishes the industry protocol for sharing information on, and dealing in, financial derivatives and structured products over the Internet. It is based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), the standard meta-language for describing data shared between applications. The standard is developed under the auspices of ISDA, using the ISDA derivatives documentation as the basis. For more information, see www.fpml.org.