Financial Information Exchange Last modified: Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Abbreviated as FIX, a vendor-neutral standardized message format protocol for describing real-time security transactions. FIX is a public-domain specification owned and maintained by FIX Protocol, Ltd. The protocol supports the following electronic conversations between brokers and other financial institutions: Equity order submissions, cancellations and replacements Equity execution reporting Equity order statusing Equity trade allocation Indication of interest communication Completed trade advertisements Directed e-mail and news messaging FIX is similar to OFX in that the two protocols are used to communicate financial information. However, OFX is focused more on retail transactions and is a query-response protocol much like HTTP while FIX is focused on institutional business and is a connected session-based protocol. Sponsored listings BusinessWeek Magazine - Global. Insightful. Concise. Get 4 free trial issues & a free gift.
The Financial Information Exchange Protocol The central repository and authority for all specification documents, committee calendars, discussion forums, presentations, and everything FIX.

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