100%
Global systemically important banks
Target multiple venues simultaneously with advanced liquidity-seeking strategies
Access a wide range of venues
Spotlight strategies can target multiple liquidity providers, including MTFs, dark pools, broker algos, SIs, regulated markets and crossing networks.
Maximize fill rates
Target multiple venues simultaneously and use dynamic switching, rebalancing logic, and overfill protection to achieve the maximum possible access to liquidity.
Create custom strategies
Define which venues to target, what volume to send and when to move on. An intuitive, data-driven interface allows you to easily visualize how your strategies will work.
Offer a bespoke service
For clients with more advanced requirements for customization, use our Control Module API to build and deploy bespoke trading behavior.
Combine execution models
Deploy active and passive execution models to control how volume is released and combine tactics into complex, multi-phase execution strategies.
Provide a common execution service
Spotlight makes it easy to share strategies between users, allowing you to scale your electronic trading business and offer a high level of service to all your clients.
Build sophisticated algorithmic trading strategies to find liquidity and automate your execution workflows
Deliver custom execution strategies for your clients
Increase fill rates and decrease market impacts
Lower implementation costs through self-provisioning
Who uses our products?
Head traders
Revenue leaders
Technology leaders
Situation
- You need to improve your trading efficiency to deliver better execution outcomes for your clients.
- You need to navigate a fractured liquidity landscape and access dark liquidity while trading in lit markets at the same time.
Solutions
- Automate your execution workflows by building multi-phase trading strategies that incorporate active and passive execution models.
- Access a wide range of different venues within a single strategy. Target each venue with the appropriate execution model and use automated limits and constraints to achieve your execution goals.
Situation
- You need to provide a globally consistent approach and a high-level of service to all your clients.
- You want to offer custom execution strategies to achieve a competitive advantage.
Solutions
- Share your strategies across users, desks and regions to achieve consistent execution outcomes globally.
- Develop and deploy bespoke trading behavior using the Spotlight Control Module API.
Situation
- You need to control your operational and IT costs while providing a high level of service.
- You need agile change management to minimize the disruption associated with service updates.
- You want to empower user to self-provision where possible, to help you to focus your resources where they can be most effective.
Solutions
- Spotlight integrates with your Fidessa hosted solution, integrating custom trading strategies into your existing workflows.
- Data-driven solution enables changes to custom strategies to be made in real-time.
- Spotlight’s intuitive visualization tool allows users to quickly build and implement complex trading strategies, and share them with other traders.
The facts speak for themselves
- 100%S&P 100 banks
- 100%FTSE 100 banks
- 80%Euronext 100 banks
Leading banks and financial institutions run on ION software
Award-winning industry leader
TradingTech Insight Awards 2023
Best Solution for Options Trading
TradingTech Insight Awards 2023
Best Transaction Cost Analysis (CTA) Tool
TradingTech Insight Awards 2023
Best Smart Order Routing Application
TradingTech Insights Europe Awards 2023
Best Sell-Side Order Management System (OMS)
Hear from our customers and peers
As the only listed securities company in Suzhou, we need technology that can simplify and automate workflows to boost efficiency and scale our business. We chose the Fidessa trading platform as it is the market leader in the equities space and the top choice for sell-side institutions.
Effective business growth requires technology that can simplify workflows, and boost efficiency. For Peel Hunt, ION has been a trusted partner in this area for nearly two decades. The Fidessa Trading Platform is the benchmark in the equities space and the top choice for sell-side institutions. As we enter our next phase of growth, ION remains our preferred partner.
We’ve been partnering with the ION team since 2006 for our global commodities franchise and they were the logical choice for us as we expand into equities market making. The ION Fidessa trading platform is a market leader in the equities space and is very much the platform of choice for the industry.
Our clients want faster, more reliable access to international capital markets. We chose the ION Fidessa solution because it gives us the advanced trading workflow, high performance, and reliability at scale that we need.
Fidessa’s approach to SOR made them stand out from the crowd this year. Liquidity capture is obviously key, but as the buy side is looking for more from their sell-side electronic desks, the importance of having a highly flexible workflow that manages the parent order over the duration of its life is an element that is often overlooked.
Fidessa has long established itself as the leading supplier of workflow automation systems to banks and brokers. More recently, the firm has invested in its derivatives technology to good effect. The Sell-side Trading System of the Year award is always hotly contested, and Fidessa’s victory in 2018 recognizes the great strides the vendor has made in derivatives execution and order management technology.
