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Ivy Schmerken
Editor at LargeIvy 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

• The Hedge Fund Transparency Challenge
  January 31, 2013
  As hedge funds face an onslaught of financial regulations and data reporting requirements from regulators and investors, they're scrambling to aggregate data and calculate risk metrics.
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• The Market Data Challenge on Wall Street
  January 11, 2013
  Direct data feeds and in-house ticker plants have grown too complex to support.
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• Wall Street's Mission: Cutting Costs While Staying Competitive
  January 10, 2013
  With lower trading volumes and more regulations, capital markets firms look to open source and other technologies to reduce IT infrastructure costs.
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• SunGard Acquires XSP, Beefing Up Corporate Actions
  January 07, 2013
  The acquisition of XciteckSolutionsPlus will add specific expertise in corporate actions processing to SunGard's capital markets business.
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• Celoxica Launches Futures Trading Platform
  January 04, 2013
  Based on FPGAs, Celoxica released a low-latency platform for futures traders seeking to capitalize on short-term price disparities on CME/ICE and Liffe/Eurex.
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• Merrill Lynch Pushes Content via Flipboard App As Clients Shift to Tablets and Smartphones
  November 29, 2012
  As consumers of information shift their habits to tablets and smartphones, Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management launched a channel on Flipboard, a popular, free app, where users can aggregate news and social media content.
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• Fidessa Helps Buy Side Source Block Liquidity via Autex
  November 26, 2012
  Through a collaboration with Thomson Reuters, Fidessa group plc has developed tools to help the buy side cut through large volumes to quickly access relevant and actionable IOIs.
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• Stockholm Hedge Fund Choose PortwareFX
  November 07, 2012
  Informed Portfolio Management, a Stockholm-based systematic macro and equity manager, chose Portware's customizable FX solution to allow traders to execute FX against any bank, ECN or interdealer platform.
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• Did PwC's Role as Auditor Rubber Stamp MF Global's Internal Controls and Allow it to Raid Customer Funds?
  November 05, 2012
  PricewaterHouse Coopers was added to a lawsuit by MF Global Customers, which accused it of turning a blind eye to the firm's internal controls.
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• Capital Markets Outlook 2013: A Cloud Reality Check for HFT Shops?
  November 05, 2012
  Algorithmic providers and high-frequency trading shops are running complex calculations in the public cloud, but the economics of storing big data may not be so cheap.
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• Capital Markets Outlook 2013: Upheaval in Fixed Income
  November 02, 2012
  Electronic trading is gaining traction in fixed income as capital-constrained dealers and new rivals seek ways to offer liquidity to the buy side.
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• Capital Markets Outlook 2013: QA Testers and Kill Switches Wanted
  November 01, 2012
  The SEC is ramping up its rules for managing the technology risk of computerized trading on stock exchanges, including a kill switch to stop runaway algorithms.
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• Orc Integrates Ultra FGPA-Based Market Data Feeds from NovaSparks
  October 29, 2012
  Market makers can increase the profitability of their strategies by shifting to more consistent, high-speed feeds, contends Orc's CTO.
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• Did the Ouster of Pandit Violate Securities Laws?
  October 26, 2012
  The news that Vikram Pandit's voluntary resignation as chief executive was really a boardroom ouster could trigger regulatory scrutiny.
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• SS&C Technologies Launches Service for Post-Trade Activities
  October 16, 2012
  GoTrade+ is a middle office service that supports post-trade activities of complex traded transactions including bilateral and cleared OTC derivatives.
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• Would Traders Want OMS/EMS Access on an iPhone?
  October 12, 2012
  Mobile apps for iphones and tablets are starting to emerge in the OMS/EMS space, so that buy side traders can place a trade, rebalance a portfolio or check compliance.
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• Are Wall Street Firms Looking to Third-Party Data Centers To Take Advantage of Efficient Cloud Computing?
  October 09, 2012
  In addition to cost savings, third-party data centers offer financial firms an increasing menu of infrastructure services, which can even help create competitive advantage. But security and compliance concerns will likely keep many financial organizations from soaring in the public cloud.
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• Outdated Portfolio Accounting Systems Stifle Growth — Poll
  October 03, 2012
  Buy side executives responding to a SimCorp poll feel that their portfolio accounting systems may not support the launch of new products or major asset classes.
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• MST Capital Signs Up for TradingScreen's Multi-Asset EMS and TCA
  September 24, 2012
  The Australian hedge fund manager will utilize TradingScreen's EMS, TradeSmart, to trade equities, derivatives and FX via the software-as-a-service model..
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• Fixing the U.S. Equity Markets: Limit Exchange/ATS Licenses and Other Steps
  September 21, 2012
  In his Senate Hearing testimony on Thursday, Larry Tabb, founder and CEO of Tabb Group, advised the SEC and Congress to stop granting exchange and ATS licenses, among other remedies.
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• Bloomberg Harnesses Liquidity In US Stocks Across All of its Equity Trading Platforms
  September 19, 2012
  The financial technology provider launches BPool, a new service to capture liquidity across four trading platforms, through a tie-up with BIDS Trading and its matching engine.
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• NYSE Technologies Hires Jon Robson as CEO
  September 11, 2012
  The global exchange operator tapped Robson, a former Thomson Reuters executive, to grow the business of its tech unit, with has connectivity, data and hosted solutions.
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• Institutional Apps: Money Managers Soon Will "Poke and Swipe" to Drill into Data
  September 06, 2012
  Designers of mobile apps for investment managers see the potential for sophisticated performance monitoring tools but also tools that interrogate data.
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• Newedge Gains Approval from CME to Clear OTC Interest Rate Swaps
  September 04, 2012
  The move positions Newedge to offer central counterparty clearing services in the $441 trillion OTC interest rate swaps market.
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• Nasdaq Systems Issue Impacts Short Sales, Points to Ongoing E-Trading Glitches
  August 23, 2012
  This is the latest in a series of technical glitches that have eroded investor confidence in the market infrastructure.
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