Indeed, despite FIX’s efforts, ECNs preferred ITCH because FIX’s market data messages were too heavy, which ultimately led to the bandwidth-reducing FAST Protocol, says Jim Northey, co-chair of FIX’s ...

Through the FIX Trading Community, we have created a new industry subgroup to focus on post-trade innovation and have explored ways in which we can adopt the FIX Protocol as a standard in this area.

and post-trade messages such as allocation instructions and trade capture reports. FIX 5.0 Service Packs Data Sets: Offers updated libraries to include protocol dictionaries and example tests for ...

and FIX message validation. API documentation and sample code is also provided to assist developers in rapidly creating their own .NET components for the system.

FIX Trading Community on Monday introduced extensions to its FIX Protocol, industry-created rules governing the communication of securities trading information, that meet upcoming requirements of ...