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Chronicle FIX

Microsecond-latency, multi-asset FIX Engine engineered for the most demanding trading environments. Trusted by top-tier banks, exchanges, and hedge funds with thousands of live deployments worldwide.

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Key Features

Microsecond Performance

Delivers round-trip times under 4 μs for New Order Single messages, verified at the 99th percentile with deterministic latency, maintaining your competitive edge.

High Throughput Capacity

Processes 100,000+ messages per second per session and scales beyond one million per server, so peak volumes never slow you down.

Customisable Per-Session Logic

Embeds counterparty-specific rules inside the engine for tailored, automated session behaviour.

Flexible Deployment Topologies

Chronicle FIX is delivered as a lightweight set of Java class libraries. It can be deployed seamlessly in on-prem or cloud environments. We are an AWS partner but remain cloud agnostic

Highly Available

Engineered for zero downtime. Built-in disaster recovery and active-active replication ensure continuous execution and instant failover, even during peak market stress.

Comprehensive FIX Version Support

Supports FIX 4.0 through 5.0 SP2, plus FIXT 1.1, enabling rapid onboarding of venues and counterparties.

Technical Information

Explore the advanced engineering principles that shape this product’s core, ensuring exceptional performance, operational resilience, and seamless scalability

Chronicle FIX

Chronicle FIX is a Java library implementing FIX protocol. Chronicle FIX is high throughput & low latency with High Availability, and is extensible and customisable.

Architecture Overview

A deep dive into core features and system design. Chronicle FIX is a high-performance Java library for implementing the FIX protocol.

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Monitoring and Control

Chronicle FIX supplies monitoring, control and testing tools which can be used for offline and/or online inspection.

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Failover and HA/DR

Achieve uninterrupted trading with Chronicle FIX failover, which instantly redirects connections to a synchronised backup acceptor.

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Performance & Scalability

By optimising the entire stack, from network hardware to schema parsing, we deliver consistent, deterministic performance.

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Use Cases

Discover how Chronicle helps financial institutions solve real integration, latency, and scalability challenges proven in production environments.

  • QuickFIX/J to Chronicle FIX
  • Order Routing
  • FIX Connectivity
  • Multiple FIX Schemas
  • Zero-downtime
  • Market Making & Liquidity Provision

Migration from QuickFIX/J to Chronicle FIX

Chronicle FIX has a number of features not available in QuickFIX/J, such as automatic failover, low latency and low garbage operation. Chronicle FIX has many more extension points than QuickFIX/J to support extension and customisation.

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Low Latency Order Routing and Load Balancing

Eliminate bottlenecks by distributing high message volumes across a pool of FIX gateway servers. Use the Chronicle FIX Router to forward messages based on standard or bespoke tags, ensuring optimal resource utilization and sub-microsecond traffic management.

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Enterprise- Wide FIX Connectivity and Regulatory Compliance with Robust Resiliency

A global Tier 1 bank connects to a vast ecosystem of counterparties, exchanges, and internal systems, all communication via various FIX versions and custom dialects. Managing this complex web of connections, ensuring seamless operation, and meeting stringent regulatory requirements presents a significant challenge.

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Chronicle FIX Schemas

Chronicle FIX supports multiple FIX schemas within a single engine. To optimise performance and latency, Chronicle FIX generates strongly typed MessageNotifiers, message interfaces and DTOs for each schema.

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Zero-downtime Global Trading

Chronicle FIX is built for institutions that cannot afford a single dropped order. Utilizing built-in active-active replication and instant failover, Chronicle FIX ensures continuous order flow and seamless disaster recovery across different geographic availability zones.

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High-Frequency Market Making & Liquidity Provision

Global FX and Equity desks require determinism to stream competitive quotes across fragmented platforms. Chronicle FIX acts as the low-latency bridge between proprietary internal pricing models and external multi-dealer networks. By completely eliminating GC pauses and system jitter, institutions can protect their spread, even during extreme volatility and peak data bursts.

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Client Stories

Trusted by top-tier financial institutions, Chronicle empowers firms to trade faster and smarter. Discover what’s possible through our client success stories powered by our ultra-low-latency.

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