TRAINING

As a leading provider of FIX training, we offer both public and private courses which can be tailored to your needs.

There are many training companies around today, but it is hard to find one which provides highly specialised training. Since our training is carried out by consultants who spend most of their time working on other projects, our knowledge base is continually kept up to date.

All of our courses can be tailored to your individual needs and, if desired, carried out at your site.

Together with Front Capital, we also offer public courses in Stockholm and Zurich:
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Our courses have been attended by a range of businesses, including SWX Swiss Exchange, Front, Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros, Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz and Accenture.

For more details, please contact George Macdonald on +41 1 980 6791, or fill in our order form.

course duration
Introduction to FIX development in English (London)
3 days
Introduction to FIX development in German (Frankfurt)
3 days
Overview of FIX in English (London)
1 day
Overview of FIX in German (Frankfurt)
1 day
Fixed Income and FIX
1 day

Introduction to FIX development

This course gives an insight into developing applications which are FIX enabled. Using our Excel plugin XLFiX, the practical labs will enable the participants to create their own FIX messages and send them directly to our exchange simulator, receiving executions and market data in return. Further exercises include FIX message routing, session layer and repeating groups.

We also show how to embed FIX messages into either Java or C#.
It also covers the different versions of FIX available and the changes made with each FIX version.

We also give an overview of the FIX engines on the market and the different versions of FIX in use (4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4).

Quotes from previous participants:
"This revolutionised the way that we look at FIX"
"We still use the Excel plugin and it has made testing for problems much easier"

Target audience : Anyone wishing to establish a deeper understanding of FIX.
Pre-requisit : None.
Duration : 3 days
Overview of FIX

This course gives an overview of FIX, it's history and current developments. The course covers the message and field formats as well as order life cycle.
Using our Excel plugin XLFiX, the practical labs will enable the participants to create their own FIX messages and send them directly to our exchange simulator, receiving executions and market data in return.

We also give an overview of the FIX engines on the market and the different versions of FIX in use (4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4).

Quotes from previous participants:
"Very useful with the Excel hands-on"
"I appreciated that there was a lot of exercises"

Target audience : Anyone wishing to gather an overview of what FIX is and it's benefits, as well as an overview of it's message formats.
Pre-requisit : None.
Duration : 1 day
Fixed Income and FIX

This course starts with an overview of the fixed income markets, the different products available (Government Bonds, Convertibles, Swaps, Eurobonds etc.) as well as how they are traded and settled.

It then moves onto how FIX supports Fixed Income, the changes in the different versions, as well as some of the user defined tags already registered for Fixed Income.

Implementation strategies are suggested and, where required, attendees open issues are discussed.

Target audience : Anyone involved in fixed income markets wishing to get an overview of how they work - for example IT staff planning on developing or supporting Fixed Income applications.
Duration : 1 day