Ms. Madhushree Kumari

Streamlining Financial Messaging: Practical Insights into FIX Connections

Abstract:

The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol serves as the backbone of electronic trading, enabling standardized and seamless communication between buy side and sell side institutions. This session offers practical insights into how FIX connections are established, managed, and optimized in real world trading environments. Attendees will explore the core components of a FIX session, message flow, typical connectivity challenges, and strategies to ensure low latency, reliable communication.

FIX is widely adopted across the global financial ecosystem from investment banks to asset managers and hedge funds. Major exchanges rely on FIX to facilitate real time trading, while fintech firms integrate FIX into their platforms for consistent, highspeed connectivity. This session is designed for both technical and business professionals and aims to demystify FIX messaging, emphasizing its pivotal role in streamlining pricing, execution, and post trade operations across the financial industry.

Profile:

Madhushree Kumari is an experienced software engineer with over 11 years of expertise in building and scaling large scale distributed systems. She currently works as a Staff Software Engineer at Visa, where she contributes to the Clearance and Settlement (CAS) FX Platform. Her recent work includes developing core components of the FXTI platform, such as a retry mechanism, a user preference microservice, and key Angular 16 based micro frontend modules. Madhushree brings deep technical proficiency in microservices, Java, Spring Boot, and cloud native solutions, and actively supports the tech community as a Senior Member and Secretary of the IEEE Young Professionals Atlanta chapter and a mentor with AnitaB.org.