(David Pearson is the head of post-trade strategy at Fidessa, a vendor providing electronic trading, investment and information solutions. In his post, he oversees the creation and spread of new business ideas across the global Fidessa buy- and sell-side community. He is also engaged in the restructuring of business flows across financial markets, from pre-trade… Read More >>
Time for a Giant Leap Forward for ETD Ops?
(Editor’s note: Industry veteran David Pearson, head of post-trade strategy for electronic execution vendor Fidessa, recently took time out of his schedule to answer questions from FTF News. Pearson’s position requires him to provide “innovating new business ideas across Fidessa’s global buy- and sell-side community,” according to his profile. He offers input into the business… Read More >>
Fidessa and Alpha Omega Take On Centralized Matching
Post-trade matching that exploits the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) electronic trading protocol is at the heart of a new partnership between electronic trading platform provider Fidessa group and FIX-based affirmation services vendor Alpha Omega, who are joining forces to offer “faster, low-cost bidirectional trade matching” via Fidessa’s post-trade Affirmation Management Service (AMS), says Steve Grob,… Read More >>
Will Fidessa Spur New Vendor Battles via Post-Trade FIX?
Normally a front-office vendor, Fidessa has today officially embraced the FIX protocol for its Post-trade Confirmation Hub offerings, which facilitate FIX-based trade affirmations and confirmations between buy-side and sell-side firms. This follows the work of the FIX Protocol Ltd. to push the electronic trading standard beyond the front office. Perhaps Fidessa’s FIX move is a… Read More >>
