FIX Trading Community Reorganizes

FIX Trading Community has effected several organizational changes to ensure it is optimally structured to address the technical, business and regulatory issues impacting multi-asset trading across the global financial markets.
By Janet Du Chenne(59204)
FIX Trading Community has effected several organizational changes to ensure it is optimally structured to address the technical, business and regulatory issues impacting multi-asset trading across the global financial markets.

The non-profit industry-driven standards body for global financial trading targets the increased use of standards, including the FIX Protocol, to deliver operational efficiency, increased transparency, and reduced costs and risk for all market participants. The restructuring comes as a follow on to a recent launch of FIX’s new website as well as an organizational rebrand.

As a result of the restructuring, the following new committees have been formed:
– Listed Products & Exchanges Committee – Maintaining the current FIX standards with respect to equities and listed derivatives, and overseeing the development and promotion of best practices for trading these products.
– OTC Products Committee – Overseeing standards development and strategic considerations given many of the common and overlapping initiatives of the OTC derivatives, fixed income and foreign exchange markets. With Dodd Frank and other regulatory changes involving multi-asset classes, leveraging the expertise of the three areas together is a practical step to address required developments.
– Global Buy-Side Committee – Delivering a focal point for the global buy-side community where informed debate around the business processes, messaging and technical standards affecting the community can take place and best practices, solutions and recommendations can be formulated and delivered. This builds on the success of recent regional buy-side initiatives.
– Global Member Services Committee – Managing the relationship with FIX Trading Community members and the wider industry. This includes promoting and growing membership, managing educational events, briefings and conferences, media relations and communication of FIX Trading Community activities and services.
– GSC Strategy Committee – Developing strategic plans focused on the future of the FIX standards, the organization and electronic trading in general.

The Global Steering Committee (GSC) is still responsible for overseeing the FIX Trading Community by effectively managing the organizations ongoing needs at both the strategic and operational level.

Courtney Doyle McGuinn, FIX Trading Community’s operations director, stated, “The organization went through a restructuring exercise about a decade ago and with FIX about to embark on its 20 year anniversary, it seemed the right time to realign. With so much change affecting the financial markets, it is absolutely imperative that the FIX Trading Community stay relevant across the asset classes, across the trading lifecycle and throughout the globe.”

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