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How To Build A Global FIX Spec

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As a bank or broker-dealer, there are really only two ways to…

How To Build A FIX API

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Several new exchanges and trading venues are entering the market ranging from…

Top 5 challenges faced by firms looking to automate

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At FixSpec, we talk about automation A LOT. There is a simple…

How a Developer Hub can help your customers make better API connections

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APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have become an essential part of modern software…

How can FIX learn from the world of Open Banking

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Open banking is a concept that has been gaining momentum in recent…

Will REST/WEBSOCKET take over FIX?

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For decades, two protocols – FIX and SWIFT – have dominated the trading and post-trade landscapes respectively. But times are changing.

Can you have FIX automation without self-service?

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You may have recently seen myself and Chris (founder of FixSpec) starring…

FIX Onboarding – Does it Have to be THIS Hard?

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Automation and self-service now regularly feature in fix onboarding team’s annual objectives. What this actually means in reality is still quite nebulous and probably remains out of reach for most firms. Paul Whittington asks why onboarding is still so painful and discusses what can be done to tackle some of the common pain-points in the onboarding process.

Do FIX Documents HAVE to be bad?

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I spend far more time thinking and talking about FIX documentation than… well pretty much anybody I’ve ever met. Despite being an outwardly-boring subject that is just too easy to swat away with objections like…

What’s the difference between FIX and REST APIs?

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One of the trends that we are seeing with more recent trading venues (which tend to be crypto exchanges), is that they are starting to offer both REST/Websocket and FIX interfaces. You might be asking why have both, and what’s the difference between them?