Traderoute and Tradeview To Get FIXed, As Thomson Looks To Show Up Merrin

THOMSON Financial Services Inc. expects this week to take delivery of specifications for Financial Information Exchange (FIX), the proposed message standard for equity order-routing developed by a group of buy- and sell-side firms. The vendor plans to incorporate the protocol into its long-delayed equity order-management and order-routing services, Tradeview and Traderoute.

Thomson has been looking for a way to get its hands on FIX since early this year (IMT, March 4), but officials there say