[This message was posted by FPL  Program Office of FIX Protocol Ltd. 
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As the financial services industry continues on its quest to achieve ever 
decreasing latency rates, one of the issues facing the community is the 
question of how latency can be measured and how this information can be shared 
between systems.  As firms seek to assemble an end- to- end picture of the 
journey of a trade across multiple organisations and through the many systems 
that this entails, it is often the case that the information required is stored 
in different formats and compiled on a different basis from system to system.  
To address this issue FPL is launching the FIX Inter-party Latency (FIPL) 
Working Group, which will aim to develop a standard that will allow the easy 
assembly of this information on a consistent basis across multiple 
organisations so that firms can develop a better understanding of where latency 
hot spots exist and how they can address them.

Some of the initial tasks that the group will address will include: 
• The standardisation of latency measurement terminology and semantics.
• The standardisation of inter-party latency measurement interoperability 
services.
• The development of a FIPL Protocol for the interoperation of latency 
measurement solutions.
• The promotion of FIPL amongst the trading venues, financial institutions 
and solution vendor community.

The Working Group’s initial meeting will take place via conference call on 
Wednesday, January 13th at  8am ET / 1pm UK time.  If you would like to 
participate in this group please contact the FPL Program Office by email at 
[email protected] to be added to the distribution list and to receive the 
conference call details. Initial leaders of the Working Group will be Henry 
Young of TS-Associates and Nicholas Morrison of Nomura.

Regards
FPL Program Office
c/o Jordan & Jordan
London: +44 (0)20 7936 9047
New York: +1 212 652 4469


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