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NYFIX offers FIX training in Hong Kong on November 6, 2008
Irfan Syed / NYFIX
22 Sep 2008 10:12PM ET

NYFIX invites members of your organization to leverage the FIX expertise of our professional services team at a comprehensive one-day "Introduction to FIX" training course in Hong Kong on November 6, 2008.

Location :
Pacific Place Conference Center
Level 5, One Pacific Place
88 Queensway
Hong Kong

Date/Time :
Thursday, November 6, 2008 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

Training Objective
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The objective of this training course is to provide a medium to high level understanding of the FIX protocol and integrating FIX software into your trading environment. The course is geared towards trading, development and support staff who are relatively new to FIX.

Training Agenda
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1. FIX - An Overview
What is FIX? Who created it? Why do we use it? What are the benefits?

2. FIX in Detail
Examine FIX message types, components, layers, and business flows.

3. FIX Session Layer
Definition of "session layer," as well as message types and operation and recovery in a FIX session.

4. FIX Application Layer
Definition of "Application Layer," as well as messages, business flows, required and conditional fields, and customization of messages.

5. FIX Engine
What is a FIX engine? What does it do? How does it interact with the rest of the trading environment?

6. FIX Connectivity Options
Adding new connections, hosted vs. point-to-point connectivity, certification process and best practices

7. FIX Routing
Message routing tags in FIX and examples of how those are used for sending FIX messages to different systems and counterparties

8. Case Studies
How buy-side and sell-side firms implemented FIX infrastructure

9. Rules of Engagement
What does it take to connect, certify and on-board a new counterparty

10. FIX Versions and Asset Classes
What is difference in various FIX versions and why will you use a certain version. What is new in FIX 5.0.

For more information, pricing and registration please visit http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=f2ecb3c7-0a08-4ccb-bc11-8b319a980117

Or contact

Irfan Syed (irfan.syed@nyfix.com)
+852 3180-9231