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(In this second installment of a two-part series about the FIX electronic trading and messaging protocol, FTF News focuses on the FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) and its expansion of FIX into the realm of post-trade processing. In a Q&A with FTF News, Brian Lees, an assistant vice president, and software development manager for The Capital Group Companies, discusses how buy-side firms can urge their sell-side counterparties to adopt the FPL’s best practices guidelines.

Much of the recent coverage of global financial markets has been disturbing. The endless sovereign debt crisis in Europe, the Facebook IPO fiasco and the billions that JPMorgan Chase & Co. lost are causing agita for many. I will attempt to provide a much-needed, if short, distraction by pointing out some very interesting financial technology developments.

SWIFT CEO Lázaro Campos is driving the change at the top of the financial messaging and services cooperative, says SWIFT’s board chairman Yawar Shah. Campos will be stepping down by the end of next month and will be replaced by Gottfried Leibbrandt, who is SWIFT’s Head of Marketing and a key architect for the SWIFT2015 initiatives for growth.

(Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series about the FIX electronic trading and messaging protocol and the FIX Protocol Ltd.’s efforts to expand the reach of FIX into the realm of post-trade processing. FTF News recently spoke to Scott Sullivan, Senior Analyst, Securities & Investments Group, for market research firm Celent about the reasons behind the expansion of a protocol so closely identified with the front office. The second part in this series will focus on the concerns of buy-side and sell-side firms as they embrace FIX for post-trade operations.)