The FIX Repository is now publicly available from the FPL website at www.fixprotocol.org/specifications/repository.
The repository includes the entire FIX vocabulary from version 4.0 onwards in XML format, with complete enumeration values. The public release of the repository provides firms access to all required fields in an XML format, diminishing the need to manually create these values. In granting the financial services community access to this product free of charge, the industry will profit from a reduction in the resource costs and manual errors previously associated with such implementations.
The FIX Repository is already in use by FPL to maintain and produce the FIX specification, the FIXML Schema, and the FIXimate online reference tool. Several FPL members are also using the FIX Repository to support their FIX offerings.
“The public release of the repository will prove highly advantageous to the industry, no longer will FIX adopters that are not members of FPL need to develop their own versions of the repository. Additionally, the buy-side, sell-side and exchange community will find upgrades to their FIX offerings easier for each release,” says Kevin Houston, co-chair, FPL Global Technical Committee, HSBC.