Centralize your limit management in a trading-platform agnostic system
Comprehensive workflows
Manage and monitor all your limits and limits approvals in one central system with a web UI and REST APIs.
Trading platform agnostic
Configure platform-specific pre-trade limits, and map data to trading platform codes, symbols, and accounts.
Customizable limit definitions
Easily configure platform-specific pre-trade limits using an intuitive definition language.
Update pre-trade risk limits across platforms
Automatically update pre-trade risk on trading platforms where APIs are available.
Limit reconciliation
Reconcile limits and view reconciliation outcomes.
Audit trails and reporting
Audit, manage, and confirm changes, and get comprehensive visibility and reporting, including pending approval requests.
A complete solution for limits management
Who uses our products?

As a Head of Clearing, Trading, or Collateral Management, you’re responsible for driving the growth and success of your trading business.
Situation
You need a solution to:
- Efficiently manage and monitor pre-trade limits across multiple execution platforms.
- Reduce time consumption due to manual management of limit change requests.
- Cope with continuous pre-trade limit changes in highly volatile markets.
- Reduce complexity deriving from platform specific limit definitions.
- Provide a single trusted source for pre-trade limit management.
Solution
- Centrally manage pre-trade limit change requests.
- Automatically update pre-trade limits across trading platforms via API, where available.
- Seamlessly support trading platform-specific limit definition and product symbology through a standardized metalanguage model.

As a Head of Risk Management, you implement strategies and solutions to ensure your organization’s financial and operational resilience.
Situation
You need a solution to:
- Avoid implementing incorrect limit changes or missing limit change requests.
- Accurately manage pre-trade limits change requests across trading platforms.
- Reduce human error and speed up limit change implementation times.
- Increase visibility and accountability on limit changes made across trading platforms.
- Guarantee alignment between your limits repository and actual pre-trade limits set at the application level.
Solution
- Minimize human error and time consumption constraints.
- Onboard new trading platforms and additional limit change requests with no extra effort.
- Rely on an embedded limit reconciliation process that guarantees continuous alignment between the central limit repository and limits set at the application level.

As a Head of Technology Operations or IT, you’re responsible for implementing and supporting the technology infrastructure your business needs to meet its strategic goals.
Situation
- Streamline the architecture to manage pre-trade limits across multiple trading platforms.
- Support pre-trade limit change requests for newly onboarded trading platforms with no extra effort.
Solution
- Manage limits in a central system, reduce total cost of ownership, and minimize integration points.
- Provide a solution without the complexities of additional support.
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Hear from our customers and peers
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