FIX Onboarding & Certification

Get certified. Get connected. Wherever the market trades.

Northbound Technologies handles FIX onboarding, certification, and conformance testing for buy-side, sell-side, and vendor teams — anywhere in the world your counterparties sit. No dependency on busy third parties or missed test slots.

4.2 / 4.4 / 5.0
FIX versions supported
24–72h
Typical cert turnaround
Global
Remote delivery, any time zone
Services

Start with FIX. Scale into everything around it.

Every engagement uses a certification script refined over years of live onboarding — every message type covered, every known OMS quirk anticipated.

35=D — ONBOARDING

FIX Onboarding & Certification

Full session setup and certification against your OMS, broker, or venue — run against a proven test script with no dependency on a counterparty's test window.

  • Session & connectivity setup
  • Full message-type certification
  • Defect triage & resolution support
35=8 — CONFORMANCE

Regression & Conformance Testing

Verify a new OMS/EMS release or gateway change hasn't broken existing FIX behavior, before it reaches production.

  • Full message-type regression pass
  • Custom tag & data dictionary support
  • Findings report with reproducible cases
35=G — PERFORMANCE

Performance & Load Testing

Flood your FIX engine with production-scale order and execution volume to confirm it holds up before it has to.

  • High-volume order simulation
  • Latency & throughput analysis
  • Failure-mode reporting
AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
Process

Every engagement follows a session, start to finish.

Structured like a FIX session itself — establish, verify, resolve, confirm.

LOGON (35=A)

Scope & connect

We map your environment, counterparties, and message specs, then establish a test session.

HEARTBEAT (35=0)

Run the script

Every message type is exercised against our proven certification script, live against your engine.

RESEND (35=2)

Resolve findings

Any defects are documented with reproducible cases and worked through with your team directly.

LOGOUT (35=5)

Certified & signed off

A clean certification report, ready to hand to the counterparty or venue that requires it.

Coverage

Remote delivery. Wherever your counterparties trade.

FIX certification and testing don't require a consultant on-site — we connect directly to your test environment, so there's no market this doesn't reach.

New York
40.7°N 74.0°W
London
51.5°N 0.1°W
Frankfurt
50.1°N 8.7°E
Dubai
25.2°N 55.3°E
Mumbai
19.1°N 72.9°E
Singapore
1.3°N 103.8°E
Hong Kong
22.3°N 114.2°E
Tokyo
35.7°N 139.7°E
Sydney
33.9°S 151.2°E
São Paulo
23.5°S 46.6°W
Toronto
43.7°N 79.4°W
Chicago
41.9°N 87.6°W
Not listed doesn't mean not covered — engagements run wherever your FIX environment lives.
Technology

Services first. Built into tools next.

Northbound Technologies starts as hands-on FIX services — the product line grows directly out of what we learn delivering them.

IN SERVICE
NorthboundFIX
Our onboarding, certification, and conformance testing practice — available today, delivered remotely to any environment.
IN DEVELOPMENT
NorthboundTest
A self-serve FIX message simulator for buy-side and sell-side workflows — test on your own schedule, no counterparty required.
IN DEVELOPMENT
NorthboundWatch
Real-time FIX session monitoring and message search across every environment you run.
Contact

Ready to get certified?

Tell us about your environment and we'll scope a certification slot — response within one business day, from anywhere in the world.

NEW SESSION REQUEST
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RESPONSE TIME
< 1 business day
DELIVERY
Remote · Any time zone
WHAT TO INCLUDE
  • Your OMS or EMS vendor
  • FIX version (4.2 / 4.4 / 5.0)
  • Counterparty or exchange/venue
  • Target go-live date