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Workflow automation through the complete trade lifecycle

We unify your operations from front to back and simplify them across asset classes. Our solutions automate the complete trade lifecycle, help to reduce operational risk, and deliver actionable insights whenever and wherever you need them.
 
What’s more, our solutions give you critical information about your business in real time. That means you can understand your customers better than ever. And you can manage risk proactively by addressing issues before they become problems.
 
With our decades of shared experience and successful client partnerships, we’re setting new standards for performance, resilience, and innovation in capital markets technology. Our passion for what we do inspires us to constantly invest in our industry and help to shape its future.

Solutions

ION Markets solutions

ION Markets solutions automate the complete trade lifecycle, reduce operational risk, and deliver actionable insights whenever and wherever you need them.

Products

Create the solution that’s right for you by choosing from our range of products.

  • Regulations, cost pressures, and uncertainty are making repo markets increasingly complex. Anvil Execution cuts through this complexity and helps you focus on what matters.

  • Information overload is a real danger for repo desks. Transform this complexity into simplicity with our integrated order management solution.

  • Automate and simplify your secured funding operations with Anvil Spark – a high-performance cloud-based platform that gives you everything you need for your securities funding operations out of the box.

  • Unify your trade processing in one solution for repo, securities lending, and collateral trading across fixed income and equities. And get instant access to critical information.

  • Fast, accurate rules-based foreign exchange trading, pricing, and distribution

  • End-to-end, modular, customizable eFX trading solutions for financial institutions operating in foreign exchange markets.

  • Access all your fixed income markets in one screen. See all your data in one format. And do everything in one solution—from price discovery to trading and post-trade reporting.

  • Connect to all your markets from one system.
    See all your liquidity across assets and markets in one screen.
    Easily assess different liquidity providers to ensure you choose the right one every time.

  • Managing the fixed income sales-to-trader workflow for voice trading can be a complex, manual process. Digitalize and automate it with our Sales to Trader solution.

  • Connect to more than 100 IRS, bond, and futures trading venues.
    See information for diverse markets, aggregated and in one clear format. Manage innovative negotiation models like requests for markets, and compression or multi-asset lists.

  • Get everything you need for equities trading in one, integrated solution— including sophisticated algo trading, order management, and seamless straight-through processing.

  • Enjoy richer client engagements with sophisticated order validation, routing, algo switching, and white labelling.

  • Create advanced liquidity-seeking strategies targeting lit, dark and conditional venues.

  • Surveillance simplified, rapid, and at an enterprise scale.

  • Surveillance simplified, rapid, and at an enterprise scale.

  • Process all forex transactions, confirmations, settlements, and payments worldwide on one platform.

  • Do all your forex trade processing and risk management across instruments and get a complete, real-time view of your business.

  • Connect any software in one user interface. Find information and complete tasks easily, with no more switching between multiple screens and windows.

  • ION Web standardizes the process of developing custom web applications and offers a centralized user-experience, ready-made components and widgets, and a container that can hold multiple apps.

  • For asset managers, compliance is more important than ever. And more complex. Whatever the size of your business, our solution can make compliance simple.

  • An execution management system (EMS) that’s low cost, easy to install and upgrade, and provides instant access to the worldwide Fidessa broker network.

  • Fast, reliable order management is vital. To achieve it, you need the right technology. Our solution can simplify and automate your workflows and process hundreds of thousands of transactions per day quickly and accurately.

  • Many asset managers are still relying on post-trade systems that are slow, complex, and prone to errors. Our solution gives you fast, accurate, automated trade processing for all your asset classes including equities, fixed income, and ETDs.

  • Instantly and easily access foreign exchange trading venues.

  • Protect your foreign exchange trading business against real-time market and credit risk with cross-venue trade risk assessment.

  • One trading API to access the entire FX market, regardless of location, workflow, protocol, instrument, or liquidity provider.

  • A complete foreign exchange solution for brokers and wealth managers, providers of international payments and FX hedging services, and treasury teams.

  • Spectrum FX Dealer makes it easy for customers to access your services, execute trades, approve payments, track payment statuses, and access data at their convenience using self-service features.

  • Everything that you need for best FX trade execution in one screen.

  • High-performance, real-time trade processing solutions for currency management.

  • Scale and simplify your business for derivatives clearing by processing real-time settlement, risk management, exchange and regulatory reporting.

  • Process millions of trades per day with STP rates of over 99.99% and get visibility of your business in real time.

  • Fully automate your cleared derivatives trade workflow with integrated order management, advanced execution, and unrivaled connectivity to global markets.

  • Unify your cleared derivatives execution, order management, and post-trade processing in a single, automated, real-time workflow.

  • Meet all your reconciliation needs and simplify existing workflows.

  • Track your positions, P&L, and margin exposure in real time.

  • The advanced back-office trade processing platform that’s quick to deploy and simple to use.

Solutions

  • Cleared derivatives
  • Equities
  • Fixed income
  • Foreign exchange
  • Secured funding
  • Asset management
  • Technology

Awards

RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2024
Best Solution for Records Retention
FinTech Global 2024
FinCrimeTech50 list
A-Team Innovation Awards 2024
Most Innovative Trade Surveillance Solution
RegTech Insight Awards APAC 2024
Best Solution for Records Retention

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