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NYSE Technologies offers FIX Training in London on May 29, 2012
Ian Richardson / NYSE Technologies <>
9 May 2012 5:35AM ET

NYSE Technologies invites members of your organization to leverage the FIX expertise of our professional services team at a comprehensive one-day "Introduction to FIX" training course in London.

Location : NYSE Technologies, Cannon Bridge House, 1 Cousin Lane, London EC4R 3XX
Date/Time : Tuesday May 29, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

Training Objective
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The objective of this training course is to provide a medium to high level understanding of the FIX protocol and integrating FIX software into your trading environment. The course is geared towards trading, development and support staff who are relatively new to FIX.

Training Agenda
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1. FIX - An Overview
What is FIX? Who created it? Why do we use it? What are the benefits?

2. FIX in Detail
Examine FIX message types, components, layers, and business flows.

3. FIX Session Layer
Definition of "Session Layer" as well as message types and operation and recovery in a FIX session.

4. FIX Application Layer
Definition of "Application Layer" as well as messages, business flows, required and conditional fields, and customization of messages.

5. FIX Engine
What is a FIX engine? What does it do? How does it interact with the rest of the trading environment?

6. FIX Connectivity Options
Adding new connections, hosted vs. point-to-point connectivity, certification process and best practices

7. FIX Routing
Message routing tags in FIX and examples of how those are used for sending FIX messages to different systems and counterparties

8. Rules of Engagement
What does it take to connect, certify and on-board a new counterparty

9. FIX Versions and Asset Classes
What is difference in various FIX versions and why will you use a certain version. What is new in FIX 5.0.

For more information, pricing and registration please visit http://nysetechnologies.nyx.com/enterprise-software/fix-training
or contact

Ian Richardson (irichardson@nyx.com)
+44 207 379 2843