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Register Today to Attend the FPL Mexican Briefing 2010, 30 September, Mexico City
Registration for the inaugural FPL briefing in Mexico City is now open. Addressing the real issues impacting the local trading community including emerging trading trends such as the evolution of high frequency trading and the potential offered by algorithmic trading, regulatory developments and the benefits that the FIX Protocol offers to market participants, secure your place today for this important event by visiting: www.fixprotocol.org/mexico2010/registration.
[17 August 2010]

FPL Welcomes ASIC’s Adoption of the FIX Protocol for Short Position Reporting
FPL welcomes the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC’s) adoption of the FIX Protocol messaging standard for the reporting of short positions. Use of FIX enables market participants to benefit from significant cost savings and efficiency gains and ASIC’s move to select the protocol is yet another example of the growing level of interest by regulators and trading venues globally to chose standardised practices.
[12 August 2010]

Sponsorship and Exhibitor Opportunities Available at the FPL Americas Trading Conference 2010
Delivering an agenda created by senior market participants to address the real issues that will impact your firm's ability to trade in 2010, featuring sessions presented by industry leading speakers and offering extensive networking opportunities, the 2010 FPL Americas Trading Conference will prove to be this year's ‘must attend’ event. A range of sponsorship opportunities have been created for this event, for further details please click here.
[10 July 2010]

Join us in Cape Town on the 20th September at the FPL African Briefing 2010
This event will look at how high frequency trading, smart-order-routing and algorithmic trading are impacting the African markets; the opportunities of trading in and out of Africa; Hedge Funds in Africa; T+3 settlement and how FIX addresses the business issues impacting the African Markets. Visit us at www.fixprotocol.org/capetown_2010 or click here for more detailed sponsorship opportunities.
[6 July 2010]

Save the Date: FPL Japan Electronic Trading Conference 2010, October 6th, Tokyo
Building upon the tremendous success of the 2006 and 2008 FPL Japan Electronic Trading Conferences, each of which attracted more than 500 attendees, FPL invites you to attend the 2010 conference. A range of sponsorship packages have been designed for this event, which are exclusively available to FPL Premier Global Member firms until Friday, June 25th and to FPL Member firms from Monday, June 28th. To view the packages available please click here.
[10 June 2010]

FPL Achieves Greater Industry Participation
FPL is proud to announce that more financial services firms than ever are choosing to become FPL members, with currently 218 member firms, including more than 30 new firms that have joined since the beginning of the year. This growth clearly demonstrates the value that FPL membership can bring to companies even during the current uncertain economic climate. If you would like to find out more about the benefits that FPL Membership could offer to your firm please contact FPL’s new Membership Relations Manager Bernie Simon by email at Bernie.Simon@fixprotocol.org.
[26 May 2010]

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The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol is a messaging standard developed specifically for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions. FIX is a public-domain specification owned and maintained by FIX Protocol, Ltd.

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To improve the global trading process by defining, managing, and promoting an open protocol for real-time, electronic communication between industry participants, while complementing industry standards.
The FIX Protocol specification is maintained by the FIX Technical Committee, which receives its direction from the international Steering Committees, the Global Steering Committee, and the various Working Groups comprised of industry participants such as fund managers, brokers, exchanges, and vendors.

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