Financial Information Exchange

Alignment Systems

Software and consultancy services for asset managers and hedge funds

FIX

FIX - the Financial Information Exchange is the de facto standard messaging standard for the front office from pre-trade to pre-settlement. For many firms this is a new area and one that needs to be managed at the nexus of technology and business. Alignment Systems can provide the specialist consultancy and project management to ensure that FIX projects succeed.

See www.fixprotocol.org for our input into debates and working groups.

Project Name	Project Details
#1 Hedge Fund	Design an iceberg trading system to work with Instinet FIX.
#2 Broker	Design a direct market access infrastructure to work with several in-house systems as well as vendor systems.
#3 Broker	Design a proof-of-concept for direct market access and provide a cost-benefit analysis.
#4 Vendor	Search and selection for a FIX engine to integrate with an existing message based application.