Connectivity/Network
We demand more and more from our networks to successfully conduct our business, buy-side needs access to more tools, EMS, OMS, strategies and algorithms, and also to monitor for validation and alerts.
Liquidity and price discovery has further spurred the need for secure networks.
Propriety analytics, alerts, and market research, data that need to be transported, add to the bandwidth requirement.
Building and Connecting Communities of Buy-side and sell-side
We are passionate in connecting the Buy-side and Sell-side by offering best-in-class solutions to facilitate the straight through processing of orders from order input to back-office accounts management.
Extensive market connectivity to exchanges, alternative and dark liquidity pools has set the stage for the growth of our connectivity business.
The Proliferation of FIX
Latency, and also the concerns for security and compliance, has propelled FIX and its adoption on a very fast track.
The Financial Information Exchange Protocol is a messaging standard to facilitate communication between trading partners and improve the global trading process and exchange of securities transactions. This protocol answers the need of the industry participant for a faster and more secured real-time electronic system.
We are happy to work with FIX solution providers, to help expand FIX connectivity globally.
Cloud Computing
The benefit in offering software, storage, and connectivity as a service, thus trying to move more and more solutions and applications into Cloud, is of course to reduce CAPEX (capital expenditures) and to make everything more scalable. This has also given rise to the need to co-locate - i.e to share bandwidth and hardware with other companies - and to outsource the management of hosting, in order for the companies to allocate more resources and times to their operational activities.
We have been instrumental in empowering our clients towards this goal in diversifying their offerings to their clients.
Algo Trading
In response to the low latency requirement, the algorithmic trading utilizes very advanced mathematical models for entering trading orders and making transaction decisions such as timing, price and quantity in the financial markets.
We can select the lowest latency connectivity and the market shaping tools to build algo trading that our clients need.