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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.
The Financial Information Exchange Protocol The central repository and authority for all specification documents, committee calendars, discussion forums, presentations, and everything FIX.	Related Categories Business Computing Electronic Commerce Internet Protocols XML Related Terms OFX protocol XBRL XML