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News and Publications
- FPL Announces Two New Global Leaders
- FPL announces the appointment of two new global leaders. Justin Stephan, Director of Trading Applications at Wellington Management Company has been appointed the new Co-Chair of the FPL Global Steering Committee, the group responsible for driving FPL’s strategy worldwide, while Greg Wood, Vice President of Advanced Execution Services, Credit Suisse, has joined other senior market participants as a FPL Director.
[1 December 2011]
- New FPL Leaders Drive Initiatives to Support EMEA's Trading Community
- FPL announces the election of its newest leaders in EMEA. Stuart Baden Powell of RBC Capital Markets, is the new Co-Chair of the FPL EMEA Regional Committee, the group responsible for driving FPL’s strategy in the region. Jim Kaye of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, is now adding the responsibility of Co-Chair of FPL’s EMEA Business Practices Subcommittee to his existing role as Co-Chair of FPL’s Global Steering Committee. The Business Practices group works to identify how business challenges impacting the region’s trading community can be addressed through the use of standards.
[8 September 2011]
- To More Effectively Meet Industry Needs FPL Republishes Latest Version of FIX
- FPL is pleased to announce that FIX 5.0 Service Pack 2 has been republished. This version of the protocol was initially released for industry adoption in 2009. FIX is a living and constantly developing standard, and since this time FPL has benefited from the thoughts and perspectives of its users that have highlighted areas they feel would benefit from cosmetic enhancements. The FIX 5.0 Service Pack 2 Errata specification is now available for industry adoption and may be downloaded from the FPL website at www.fixprotocol.org/specifications.
[31 August 2011]
- FIX: The New Way Latin America Trades
- FPL welcomes the decision of the stock exchanges of Chile, Colombia and Peru to choose the FIX Protocol to support the MILA (Mercado Integrado Latinoamericano) regional integration project that has created a link between the three exchanges.
[6 July 2011]
- FIX Protocol Brings Efficiencies and Cost Reductions to Taiwan
- FPL welcomes the announcement by Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) that integration of the FIX Protocol into key Taiwanese exchanges and clearing facilities will complete this month.
[27 June 2011]
- FPL Announces Support of Industry Initiative to Accelerate FIX Adoption for Fixed Income
- FPL welcomes the decision by a consortium of 12 leading investment banks to jointly engage with existing and emerging fixed income market venues and ISVs to promote increased use of the FIX Protocol and other open standards such as FpML, across the trading life cycle of all fixed-income products.
[15 June 2011]
- FIX Protocol Ltd Offers Trading Community Additional Resources to Facilitate Easier and More Cost Efficient FIX Implementations
- FPL is pleased to announce the launch of FIXwiki, an interactive and educational web tool that will enable the trading community to benefit from the knowledge contributions of other users as they seek to advance their usage and understanding of the protocol. FIXwiki is a FIX-specific wiki website that provides a comprehensive and authoritative view of the FIX specification.
[28 February 2011]
- FPL Releases FIXwiki
- FPL is pleased to announce the launch of FIXwiki, an interactive and educational web tool that will enable the trading community to benefit from the knowledge contributions of other users as they seek to advance their usage and understanding of the protocol.
[28 February 2011]
- FPL Buy-Side Representatives Create Best Practices Around Execution Venue Reporting
- FPL launched Buy-Side Working Groups in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions and one issue they prioritized was an inconsistent response from the broker-dealer community with regards to broker reporting of the execution venue on each fill. As a result, they have created a rules of engagement / best practices document to help resolve these challenges.
[10 February 2011]
- FPL Releases Standardized Guidelines for Risk Management
- FPL announces the completion of an initial set of guidelines which recommends risk management best practices in electronic trading for institutional
market participants.
[10 January 2011]
- FPL Welcomes ASIC's Adoption of the FIX Protocol for Short Position Reporting
- FPL welcomes the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC’s) adoption of the FIX Protocol messaging standard for the reporting of short positions. Use of FIX enables market participants to benefit from significant cost savings and efficiency gains and ASIC’s move to select the protocol is yet another example of the growing level of interest by regulators and trading venues globally to chose standardised practices.
[12 August 2010]
- FPL Achieves Greater Industry Participation
- FPL is proud to announce that more financial services firms than ever are choosing to become FPL members, with currently 218 member firms, including more than 30 new firms that have joined since the beginning of the year. This growth clearly demonstrates the value that FPL membership can bring to companies even during the current uncertain economic climate. If you would like to find out more about the benefits that FPL Membership could offer to your firm please contact FPL’s new Membership Relations Manager Bernie Simon by email at Bernie.Simon@fixprotocol.org.
[26 May 2010]
- FPL Announces the Official Release of FIXatdl 1.1
- FPL is proud to announce the launch of the new industry standards-based messaging language for algorithmic trading strategies, the FIX algorithmic trading definition language (FIXatdl) version 1.1. For further details regarding this important announcement please visit the FIXatdl page.
[24 March 2010]
- Oxera Study Highlights the Cost Savings and Efficiency Gains Delivered by the FIX Protocol
- FPL is proud to announce the release of a report entitled ‘The Benefits of the FIX Protocol’. The report has been produced by Oxera, one of Europe’s leading independent economic consultancies. The results of the report detail the significant and beneficial impact the FIX Protocol has on global trading practices and its future potential. To view the press release for further details please click here and to download the full report please click here
[20 January 2010]
- FPL Announces the Appointment of New Leaders
[9 September 2009]- Zoltan Feledy of State Street Global Advisors Elected as Co-Chair of the FPL Asia Pacific Regional Committee
- FPL is proud to announce that Zoltan Feledy of State Street Global Advisors has been elected as Co-Chair of the FPL Asia Pacific Regional Committee.
[20 July 2009]
- FPL Announces New Leadership of Committees
- FPL is proud to announce that Andrew Parry of J.P. Morgan Investment Bank has been elected as Co-Chair of the FPL Global Derivatives Committee and Jay Hurley of Morgan Stanley has been re-elected as Co-Chair of the FPL Global Foreign Exchange Committee.
[1 July 2009]
- FPL Announces IIROC to Adopt FIX 5.0 for Market Surveillance and Transaction Reporting
- FPL is pleased to announce that it has developed an Extension Pack which will enable FIX 5.0 to support IIROC's new FIX-based market regulation feed specification for market surveillance and transaction reporting
[6 May 2009]
- FPL Announces the Release of FIX 5.0 Service Pack 2
- FPL is proud to announce that FIX Protocol version 5.0 Service Pack 2 is now publicly available for download from the FPL website from the Technical / Specifications page. The direct link is here.
[21 April 2009]
- FPL and the SIIA/FISD Sign a Statement of Understanding
- FPL and the SIIA / FISD have signed a Statement of Understanding. This agreement outlines a collaborative approach that will seek to further promote the use of standards to enhance straight-through-processing (STP), operational transparency, interoperability between market participants and regulators, and improved integration.
[16 April 2009]
- FPL Appoints Regional Directors in Asia Pacific and EMEA
- FPL has announced the appointment of Mr. Edward Mangles as the new FPL Asia Pacific Regional Director and Mr. Stuart Adams as the new EMEA Regional Director.
[11 March 2009]
- Chris Jenkins, Managing Director - Asia/Pacific, Tora, Elected as Co-Chair of the FPL Asia Pacific Regional Committee
- FPL is proud to announce that Chris Jenkins, Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Tora, has been elected as Co-Chair of the FPL Asia Pacific Regional Committee.
[24 February 2009]
- FPL Announces the Release of the FAST Protocol(sm) Version 1.2
- FPL is proud to announce the release of the FIX Adapted for STreaming (FAST) Protocol(sm) Version 1.2. FAST 1.2 offers incremental improvements to previous releases, enabling the industry to benefit from even greater efficiency gains.
[18 February 2009]
- Jim Leman, FIX Protocol Evangelist and Founder, Receives Waters Lifetime Achievement Award
- FPL congratulates Jim Leman, FPL Director and Principal and Managing Director at Westwater, on recently receiving the Waters Lifetime Achievement Award at the 4th annual American Financial Technology Awards.
[12 January 2009]
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