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NYFIX Offers FIX Training in London - 14th October
Ian Richardson / NYFIX <>
16 Sep 2008 7:10AM ET

NYFIX are pleased to invite members of your organisation to leverage the FIX expertise of our team at a comprehensive one-day training programme offered in London.

Please sign up now (see http://nyfix.com/training) for our 1-day Introduction to FIX Training course which is held in our London office each month.

Location : NYFIX offices, 160 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BF
Time : 9:15am - 5:00pm
Dates : Tuesday 14th October
            Tuesday 11th November
            Tuesday 9th December

Contact : Ian Richardson, +44 207 634 5354

Training Objectives
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The objectives of this training course are to provide a high-level understanding of the FIX protocol and integrating FIX software into your trading environment. The course is geared toward trading and support staff who are relatively new to FIX.

Training Agenda
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1. FIX General Overview
What is FIX? Who created it? Why do we use it? Benefits of FIX.

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

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

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

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

6. Connection On-boarding and Certification Adding new connections, hosted vs. point-to-point, certification process and best practices.

7. What's new in FIX?
FIX 5.0, FAST Protocol, FIXML, FIX Implementation of Asset Classes

8. Q&A

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For more information/pricing, please contact:
Ian Richardson (ian.richardson@nyfix.com)
+44 207 634 5354