News & Announcements

September 2019

As of September 6, 2019, the production version of the RIXML Interactions Standard is version 2.0. The final production version incorporates some minor changes to the schema files that were released for public comment this summer. 

Version 2.0 of the Interactions Standard is a major update, incorporating feedback that we received after the initial release of the standard in late 2017. The new version will leverage the RIXML Common schema file, which houses tags and tag sets used in the other RIXML standards, as well as the RIXML Data Types schema file, which contains the values for the enumeration lists used throughout the RIXML Standards Suite. Other key changes include improving the method of identifying the number and types of firms involved in an interaction, reorganizing the tags used to identify the firms and individuals involved in an interaction, enhancing the ability to connect related interactions, adding the ability to connect related research content, and refining the mechanism to track the status of both the interaction itself and of each participant in the context of the interaction.

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Integrity Research has published a free article on its website announcing the start of the comment period for version 2.0 of the RIXML Interactions Standard. View the article by Michael Mayhew here.

July 2019

The draft of the upcoming update to the RIXML Interactions Standard is now available for public comment. Note that this is a major update, and will break backward compatibility with the current version of the standard.

Key changes include:

• leveraging the common and datatypes schema files used by the other standards in the RIXML Standards Suite, streamlining the process of maintaining all of our standards while simplifying implementation by firms using multiple RIXML standards.
• improving the method of identifying the number and types of firms involved in an interaction
• reorganizing the tags used to identify the firms and individuals involved in an interaction
• enhancing the ability to connect related interactions
• adding the ability to connect related research content
• refining the mechanism to track the status of both the interaction itself and of each participant in the context of the interaction.

The comment period release package includes three schema files and a Data Dictionary that contains information about each tag, best practices, and implementation guidelines. Release package files can be downloaded here:

• Main schema file for the Interactions Standard v2.0: Main (.xsd)
• Schema file containing elements shared among all of the standards in the RIXML Standards Suite: Common (.xsd)
• Schema file containing the values for all enumeration lists used in the RIXML Standards Suite: Data Types (.xsd)
• RIXML Interactions Data Dictionary: Data Dictionary (.pdf)

The press release announcing this comment period release can be found here.

September 2018

This week’s RIXML Quarterly Meeting focused on discussing the changes and enhancements we are considering in the upcoming revision to the RIXML Interactions Standard. Significant progress was made in identifying opportunities for improving the Interaction Standard’s ability to help firms meet the new reporting requirements brought on by the EU’s MiFID II regulations. The updated version of the RIXML Interactions Standard is scheduled to be finalized by the end of 2018.