fix trading community
London
FIX Trading Community™ is the non-profit, industry-driven standards body at the
heart of global trading. The organisation is independent and neutral, dedicated
to addressing real business and regulatory issues impacting multi-asset trading
in global markets through standardisation, delivering operational efficiency,
increased transparency, and reduced costs and risks for all market participants.
Central to FIX Trading Community’s work is the continuous development and
promotion of the FIX family of standards, including the core FIX Protocol
messaging language, which has revolutionised the trading environment and has
successfully become the way the world trades. As an industry-driven
organisation, all FIX Trading Community initiatives are pursued in response to
market participant requests. This work is organised through a global network of
committees, subcommittees and working groups that attract colleagues, peers and
competitors who work together in a collaborative manner, free from commercial
conflict, and in a way rarely witnessed in the capital markets to address core
industry challenges. These efforts are supported by a small team of resources
based in New York, Hong Kong and London. FIX Trading Community was previously
known as FIX Protocol Ltd (and this remains its full legal entity name). Since
its launch in 1998, the organisation has achieved tremendous success, developing
and encouraging adoption of the FIX messaging standard. However, in recent
years, whilst the continuous enhancement and promotion of FIX has remained a
core goal, the organisation was also successfully leading work exploring how
other non-proprietary, free and open standards could effectively support
evolving needs. This led to the belief that the existing brand, no longer truly
reflected the many ways in which the organisation supports the industry, nor the
countless opportunities that actively participating in this vibrant community
presents. The result of which was the decision to rebrand the organisation as
FIX Trading Community in August 2013.
