FTEN Trade Control Gateways

FTEN Trade Control Gateways

Changing Market Access Requirements Trading firms need fast, reliable and scalable access to market centers and liquidity pools in order to be competitive. Likewise current regulation demands that brokers demonstrate controls to meet today s risk management requirements along with the flexibility to adapt to tomorrow s market structure and technological innovations. Compounding the access challenge are the significant integration requirements related to tracking activity and performing risk management across different systems, desks, and asset classes. Traditional trading architecture makes it nearly impossible to assess a client s overall credit positions and apply appropriate limits. The impact? Firms spend too much time managing costly IT/infrastructure requirements at the expense of their core value-added business: trading.

Tailored, Global Access The FTEN Trade Control Gateways are designed to meet the needs of each firm s unique systems and strategies. They provide a wide range of firms from larger investment banks, to regional or boutique firms with high-performance access to multiple liquidity destinations through a single interface. Seamlessly integrated into each client s trading environment, FTEN Trade Control Gateways are tailored to meet firm-specific latency and connectivity requirements and can process orders and receive executions from major liquidity destinations and global market centers. The solution is trusted for performance and throughput, handling over a billion trades on a daily basis and providing users with a feature-rich experience that includes load balancing, protocol conversion, and a full monitoring suite. Integrated Risk Control FTEN Trade Control Gateways are integrated with FTEN s risk engine, RiskXposure (RX), to enforce pre-, at- and post-trade risk checks that protect against trading risk and credit exposure. RX features an easy-to-use dashboard featuring aggregated, real-time views of user trading activity across all trading platforms, market venues, and asset classes utilizing FTEN s global drop copy network. FTEN processes over a billion trades daily >> Gateway customers also benefit from NASDAQ OMX s state-of-the-art high-speed network and unparalleled connectivity options.

FTEN VelocityXpress (VX) and VX Proxy Gateways FTEN VX gateways are fully managed trade control gateways for low-latency market access integrated with the FTEN RiskXposure for pre-trade risk control. The gateways provide live order book updates, risk management and message translation with minimal latency. They can be deployed in an FTEN data center, at a client s site, or third-party co-location provider. FTEN Software Controls FTEN Sidecar is a lightweight Java application that integrates third-party trading systems with FTEN RiskXposure (RX) to enable real-time analysis of orders against RX designated parameters with minimal added latency. FTEN also offers direct API interfaces to FTEN RiskXposure, enabling enforcement of true pre-, at- and post- trade risk controls on compatible third party gateways. Used alone or in combination with hardware options, the software controls provide the flexibility, speed and functionality to meet any trader s needs. FTEN Hardware Controls FTEN utilizes various network devices to enforce controls on trading activity within FTEN or third-party trading environments. These purpose-built, hardware-based trade control systems can halt client order flow in the event of a breach condition on both a pre- or posttrade basis depending on configuration and placement, with minimal additional latency.

Transparency, access and control on a single platform across markets, assets, and systems Utilizing FTEN, firms can: > > Leverage seamless, scalable, and low-latency access to major global market centers and liquidity pools from a single platform > > Eliminate the need to support multiple exchange protocols by utilizing streamlined format translation capabilities across global markets Benefits unique to FTEN Trade Control Gateways > > Ability to control risk with global scope and at a granular level, setting parameters by account, client, market and asset class > > Brokers and traders can monitor all orders and executions on a single dashboard, and drill down to details of any order > > Trade Control Gateways are integrated elements of the FTEN platform, a full complement of end-to-end services that FTEN manages with 24/6 support > > Ensure orders and cancel instructions are submitted to the market without delay through FTEN s load balancing capabilities, which seamlessly balance order entry across multiple exchange ports > > Restrict users to orders that will liquidate excessive positions in the case of a limit breach via robust limit setting capabilities > > View real-time trading activity on a comprehensive dashboard with order and Fix tag level detail

Flexible Deployment Options FTEN Trade Control Gateways can be implemented within a firm s infrastructure or as a fully managed and hosted solution within FTEN co-location facilities. For high frequency trading firms, FTEN can optimize hardware, network infrastructure, and connectivity in addition to providing tools for measuring latency. Additionally, FTEN s extensive experience with a wide range of implementations enables clients to be onboarded rapidly, with consistent uptime and proactive, 24/6 support. Fully-managed solutions 24 x 6 global support >>

Experienced Support Acquiring and maintaining staff that have domain expertise with the full range of native destination protocols, and the proficiency to design and support an ultra low latency trading architecture can be both costly and difficult. Traditional trading platform support staff are seldom trained to diagnose latency and connection problems or assist clients in reconfiguring trade connectivity on the fly. Firms can leverage FTEN s extensive knowledge and experience designing, optimizing and monitoring connectivity and trading architecture to lower the financial burden of platform support and achieve operational excellence. FTEN works with firms to design high-performance trading environments with the appropriate risk controls, network configurations and infrastructure needed to keep their clients and their own trading environments running at full speed with unprecedented uptime. Customize layouts to quickly and easily view and search for orders as needed. View open inbound/outbound orders, trades broken by exchanges/venues, unacknowledged orders, symbols traded, and a variety of other attributes for unparalleled visibility into trading activity.

About FTEN FTEN provides traders, brokers and clearing firms with comprehensive risk management and execution infrastructure tools that help them minimize risks and ultimately increase profits in increasingly regulated, latency sensitive, high-volume and global trading environments. FTEN s risk platform is the product of a unique 10-year focus on the regulatory and risk management challenges facing the trading community. This focus has resulted in proven systems that enable firms to monitor and manage their risk exposure across markets, asset classes, regions and accounts in real-time through flexible pre-, at- and post-trade controls. Organizations that use FTEN s patented technology are able to integrate front- and back-office systems and processes and ultimately attract more clients with greater returns on less capital. Contact Information: MARKETSTRUCTURE@FTEN.COM WWW.FTEN.COM Americas One Liberty Plaza, 51st Floor New York, NY 10006 United States +1 212 808 8440 Asia-Pacific Man Yee Building Room 1207-08, 12/F 68 Des Voeux Road Central Hong Kong +852 2167 2510 Europe, Middle East, Africa 131 Finsbury Pavement London EC2A 1NT United Kingdom +44 207 065 8000 2012 FTEN. All rights reserved. FTEN, RiskXposure, RX, VelocityXpress, VX, VX Proxy, Sidecar and the FTEN globe logo are registered and unregistered trademarks of FTEN in the U.S. and other countries. NASDAQ OMX is a registered and/or unregistered trademark of The NASDAQ OMX Group in the U.S. and other countries. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Q12-0477