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.
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.
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
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
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
Every engagement follows a session, start to finish.
Structured like a FIX session itself — establish, verify, resolve, confirm.
Scope & connect
We map your environment, counterparties, and message specs, then establish a test session.
Run the script
Every message type is exercised against our proven certification script, live against your engine.
Resolve findings
Any defects are documented with reproducible cases and worked through with your team directly.
Certified & signed off
A clean certification report, ready to hand to the counterparty or venue that requires it.
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.
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.
Built for FIX engineers. Free, forever.
Tools we use in our own certification engagements — available free to anyone in the FIX community. No login, no install, no catch.
FIX Message Decoder
Paste any raw FIX message and instantly decode 500+ tags with field names, enum translations and checksum validation. Supports FIX 4.2, 4.4, 5.0 and FIXT 1.1.
- 500+ standard FIX tags
- Enum value translations
- Checksum validator
- Shareable links
FIX Training Game
Interactive training simulator with 4 game modes — tag identification, message types, live scenarios and full certification exam. Used by FIX professionals to sharpen their skills.
- Tag identification quiz
- Live FIX scenario diagnosis
- Certification exam mode
- Streak scoring and achievements
FIX Message Compare
Paste two FIX messages side by side and instantly see every difference highlighted — by tag, by value, by missing fields. Essential for certification debugging.
- Side-by-side diff view
- Missing tag detection
- Value change highlighting
- Export comparison report
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.
- Your OMS or EMS vendor
- FIX version (4.2 / 4.4 / 5.0)
- Counterparty or exchange/venue
- Target go-live date