The Way
The World Trades
The FIX Trading Community is the independent, non‑profit, industry‑driven standards body at the heart of global trading, and the custodian of the FIX Protocol—the world’s leading standard for real‑time electronic trading.
Standards
- FIX Protocol extended to support securities lending
- MMT 5.0 released for European and UK equities/bonds consolidated tapes
- FIX Protocol recommended practices issued for consolidated tapes - European bonds, UK bonds and European equities
- Standards interoperability with Orchestra – ISO 20022 and binary protocol representations now available
Initiatives
- FIX targets ETF friction with new standards for ETF creation and redemption
- Digitalising the Primary Market Workflow: FIX to automate IPO and ABB bookbuilding workflow
- FIX updates guidance for EU and UK bond transparency trade flags
- FIX to tackle operational resilience with new electronic standards for market outages
- New working groups launched to cover 24hr trading and the European derivatives consolidated tape
Events
- EMEA 2026 Trading Conference this Thursday – last chance to register
- India 2026 Trading Conference (9 April) agenda and speaker list now available
- Hong Kong 2026 (14 May) Asia Trading Summit registration now open
- France 2026 Trading Conference – save the date (Sep 17)
- Americas 2026 events announced – Boston (Jun 11), Chicago (Sep 23), New York (Oct 29)
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