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Ivy 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
posted in April 2012

Buy-Side Traders Find Liquidity in Dark Pools

4/30/2012
With U.S. equity volumes in the dumps, the buy side increasingly is searching for liquidity in dark pools, stoking fears about a lack of execution transparency in the opaque markets. But buy-side traders are finding value in the dark -- if they know where to look.

Brazilian Market Maker Chooses Orc

4/11/2012
Orc Group's platform was selected by an aggressive Brazilian market -maker Marcelo Sacomori to quote options and futures on the BM&FBovespa exchange.

Dangers of the Dark?

4/10/2012
New statistics from Tabb Group raise concerns about more than a third of U.S. equity volume being executed away from the primary exchanges.

AcadiaSoft Hires COO

4/10/2012
AcadiaSoft named Chris Walsh, an expert in the financial messaging field, as COO of the company, to run the day-to-day affairs.

Dataminr Analyzes Tweets for Actionable Signals

4/9/2012
With its real time analytics engine hooked into the Twitter firehose, Dataminr provides an early warning system for micro-trends geared to enterprise clients in finance and government.

Customer Service Goes Mobile

4/5/2012
Vivisimo rolled out a mobile product that gives customer-facing professionals access to enterpise-wide information via smart phones and tablets.

Did a Rogue Algo Cause BATS IPO Crash?

4/4/2012
A market data firm traced the crash of BATS' IPO to a single algorithm that executed over 500 times on Nasdaq, driving its price from $15.25 to about two cents in less than a second. 

Did a Rogue Algo Cause BATS IPO Crash?

4/4/2012
Research by a market data firm has traced the crash of BATS' IPO to a single algorithm that executed over 500 times on Nasdaq, driving its price from $15.25 to about two cents in less than a second.

Data Security: Who’s Winning the Cyber War?

4/3/2012
The growing sophistication of cyber attacks and the proliferation of vulnerabilities resulting from the rise of mobile computing are forcing financial institutions to rethink data security and embrace new fraud-fighting techniques and technologies, including real-time monitoring.

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