Solution

Solutions

Pre-Trade

Execution

Post-Trade

By Asset Class

Swaps

Interest rate, Credit, total return swaps and their derivatives

IR Swaps

Par, MAC,SOFR IMM, FWD STARTING, X-CCY, OIS

CREDIT Swaps

CDS,CDX

Total Return Swaps

Commodity, Index, Bond, Swaptions, Caps/Floors,YC Options

Handle Complex Assets with Ease

  • Multi-leg packages native to platform. Execute, allocate and cancel/correct the packages as a unit (Rolls, Yield Curve, Butterfly, Compression, Straddles, Invoice Swap)
  • Automatically send and capture responses for RFQ
  • Auto breakdown of Cost/PV to legs for package, considering risk of legs and other fairness aspects
  • Hassle free post-trade affirm, reporting, cancel/correct and export to PB/Back Office 

Trading Decision Support

  • Time-of-Trade TCA
  •  Fair valuation, dealer mark-up estimate, infer pricing/signals from related markets
  • Dealer scorecards – See dealer performance while working the trade, including all historic quotes/trades/indicatives with useful statistics
  • Single Click to external venues and market data platforms including chat & quotes

Single Blotter for Everything

  • No, Low, High touch trading in a single blotter
  • Trade electronically or over voice/chat
  • Connectivity to SEFs & other platforms
  • Consolidated liquidity with streaming price quotes, RFQ, indictive quotes all in one order-book

FX

Spots, Forwards, Swaps, NDF, Options

Better Aggregation of Liquidity

  • Customized streams in a single blotter
  • Our business model – we don’t take money from the sell side so there is no conflict of interest
  • FX hedger that can be run in an automatic mode or can be manually invoked

Smarter Algos

  • Smart order router – Buckets liquidity and understands rules of engagement
  • Customized algos that understand Rules of Engagement (ex. Min time TWAP)
  • Use our pre-built algos, leverage your brokers’, or drop in your own in an easy to use interface

Embedded TCA for Best Execution

  • Last looks, dealer penalty box, cancel tracking
  • Mini-Dealer Scorecard – A tool that helps a trader pick the right dealer set for the order (based on calculated statistics)
  • Full Dealer Scorecard – A tool with all the quotes and trades data with ‘mark outs’ to drill into and visually see the patterns and understand the market and dealer behavior in response to market events and trading activity

Fixed Income

Govt, Agency, EMD, IL, Corp, Converts, TBA

Reduce Regulatory and Operational Risk

  • Multi-dealer, two-way quote capture
  •  Digitization of voice trading

Access to All Liquidity

  • Dealer runs, electronic venues, and voice in a single order book
  • No, Low, High touch trading in a single blotter

Trading Decision Support

  • Pre-, During-, and Post-execution analytics
  • Single Click to external venues and market data platforms including chat & quotes

LISTED

Equity, Pairs/Basket, Futures, Futs/ EQ/Index Options, ETF

Consolidated Blotter Across All Liquidity Streams

  • Customized streams in a single blotter
  • Built-in automation & algos, including an auto-hedger to generate hedges given defined parameters

Custom Indexes

  • Create and manage custom indexes, baskets, and blended benchmarks directly in the platform
  • Target specific desired exposures in delta space or even  implied vol 

Trade Through Underlying

  • Support for trading baskets or underlying securities to target custom indices
  • Flexibility to choose between the futures, ETF or swap based on cost at the time of trade

By Function

Portfolio Management

Real-Time Reports and Views

  • Attribution of portfolios by position, PnL, and risk
  • Slice and dice portfolios by any risk dimension
  • Data-driven decision support

Discretionary Portfolio Management

  • Single click to rebalance or manipulate exposure
  • Pre-trade & time of trade analytics
  • Automate price discovery in voice/manually traded markets while minimizing information leakage

Trade Optimization and Support

  • Single-click to generate secondary trades such as repo, rolls, hedges and unwinds
  • Optimize trades via netting, aggregation, scheduling and packaging of exposures
  • Compress the portfolio or unwind/novate a set of positions

Trade Execution

Aggregate All Liquidity

  • RFQ, API, streaming – all in one order book
  • No, low, and high touch trading in a single blotter
  • Digitization of voice trading

Flexible Algos and Analytics

  • Use our pre-built algos, leverage your brokers’, or drop in your own in an easy to use interface
  • Fair valuations, indicative prices, built-in TCA
  • Considers different quoting conventions across venues

Extensive Complex Asset Support

  • Native support for all multi-leg strategies & packages
  • Properly take market conventions and trading workflows into consideration
  • Ability to compete dealers, compare quotes, break-down quotes to legs, and calculate markups

Operations

Single Window for Everything

  • Matching, settlement and clearing in a single window
  • Full control over cancel/corrects, amends straight from the GUI
  • Reconciliation directly within the platform

Real-Time IBOR

  • Positions, PnL, cash, NAV
  • Real-time and historical positions that are reconciled against the back-office/accounting systems

Easy Integration

  • 50+ adapters to interface with middle and back-office systems
  • Export/import to accounting and back-office systems
  • Real-time, self-validating links to internal & external systems

Compliance

Fund-Level Compliance

  • Netting and aggregating trades across funds in a compliant manner
  • Highly flexible configurations to define rules at a granular level

Counterparty Compliance

  • Ensuring that you can trade with the specified counterparty per the rules you have defined in the system
  • Validated throughout entire trading life-cycle, not just once pre-trade

Restricted Securities

  • At any level — firm/fund/account/strategy
  • Validated throughout the entire trading life-cycle, not just once pre-trade

TCA

Eliminate Regulatory and Fiduciary Risk

  • Extensive automation and highly customized workflows
  • Rapid turn-around – hosted or deployed

Built-in Regulatory Controls and Reporting

  • MiFID, Dodd-Frank, EMIR data and reporting out-of-the-box
  • Institutional grade controls

Designed for Complex Fund Structures and Counterparty Restrictions

  • Automatically create netted, block orders across 40Act, SMA, ERISA, UCITS, Prop accounts – with consideration for compliance and other factors
  • Execute block orders with maximum number of available counterparties as opposed to the lowest common denominator of allowed dealers in other systems

Embedded TCA for Best Execution

  • Last looks, dealer penalty box, cancel tracking
  • Mini-Dealer Scorecard – A tool that helps a trader pick the right dealer set for the order (based on calculated statistics)
  • Full Dealer Scorecard – A tool with all the quotes and trades data with ‘mark outs’ to drill into and visually see the patterns and understand the market and dealer behavior in response to market events and trading activity

POST Trade

Operational Analytics

  • Cancel/corrects, amends, affirmations, and confirmations can all be done right within the GUI

Fair Allocation

  • Fair allocation algorithms that consider block size, targets, held exposures, counterparty, and other constraints
  • Analytics to prove fair allocation to investors and regulators

Shadow Accounting

  • Ensure the accuracy of books and records

Connectivity to General Ledger and Other Downstream Systems

  • Easily export analytics output, trades, positions, and allocations downstream

Reconciliation

  • Smart Recon – Machine learning-based exception handling

By Firm Type

Systematic HEdge Funds

Exposure-Based Trading

  • Allows you to take advantage of market events or liquidity
  • Dynamic security selection picks the best instrument to represent that exposure

Trade-Optimization, Scheduling and Smart Order Routing

  • Most efficiently package the orders (risk-neutral packages, crosses, curves, spot-swap split, etc.)
  • Highly differentiated algos

Built with Systematic and Quant Funds in Mind

  • PnL, Risk, and Position attribution all the way up to signals and factors
  • Handle complex assets & multi-leg strategies in Futures, Options, FI, and FX

DISCRETIONARY HEdge Funds

Single Blotter for Everything

  • One place for electronic, algo, and voice/manual trading
  • Customized price streams from dealers
  • Consolidated liquidity with streaming price quotes, RFQ, indictive quotes all in one order-book

Compliance Across All the Trading Functions

  • Dodd-Frank, MiFID-II
  • Fund mandates, allowed counterparties, exposure-based limits

Pre and Post Trade Allocation

  • Fair allocation algorithms that consider block size, targets, held exposures, counterparty, and other constraints
  • Analytics to prove fair allocation to investors and regulators

Asset Managers

Disentangling Trading From Fund Structure

  • Automatically create netted, block orders across 40Act, SMA, ERISA, UCITS, Prop accounts – with consideration for compliance and other factors
  • Execute block orders with maximum number of available counterparties as opposed to the lowest common denominator of allowed dealers in other systems
  • Greatly reduces “friction” between PMs, traders, and ops

Compliance Across all the Trading Functions

  • Dodd-Frank, MiFID-II
  • Fund mandates, allowed counterparties, exposure-based limits

Pre and Post Trade Allocation

  • Fair allocation algorithms that consider block size, targets, held exposures, counterparty, and other constraints
  • Analytics to prove fair allocation to investors and regulators