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FPL Announces Availability of the FIX 5.0 Specification Candidate Release
FPL Program Office / FIX Protocol Ltd. <>
10 Oct 2006 2:47PM ET

FPL is proud to announce the availability of the FIX 5.0 Release Candidate by the Global Technical Committee. The release been posted and is available for download at: http://www.fixprotocol.org/documents/2924/FIX_5_0_Candidate.zip. The .zip file includes 7 volumes and Release Notes.

Major changes in FIX 5.0 include:

•The enhanced support provided for foreign exchange trading.
•Enriched order routing features for reserve, peg and trigger orders.
•Major new support provided for post-trade and clearing processes for allocation, trade and position reporting.
•Market data optimization extensions to support book management.
•Support for Regulation NMS, OATS Phase 3, MiFID.
•Transport Independence Framework of FIX 5.0 which provides a separation of the session layer from the application layer. This additional piece of functionality provides a framework that enables different message versions to be used within the same FIX session.

The Global Technical Committee is seeking feedback via the FIX 5.0 version Specification Release Candidate Feedback thread at:
http://www.fixprotocol.org/discuss/read/99d07e8b
 
Please post all review comments, questions and feedback by replying to this discussion thread. The committee will use this discussion thread to archive and respond to all feedback received from the public.
Please note that the deadline for receiving feedback is October 20th, 2006.

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