Appital, an equity capital marketplace
trading platform
Trading Platform
In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real-time updates on quotes, charts and is the main frontend which customers are facing.Brokers either use existing trading platforms and sometimes customize them, or develop their own platform from scratch. Since the beginning of the retail FX trading business MetaQuotes and its platforms MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) have been the industry standard, especially when it comes to automated trading.MT4 Shows Resiliency While MT4 has long been seen as ubiquitous amongst brokers’ offerings, a targeted push by MetaQuotes themselves has led to broader adoption of MT5 in recent years. Advanced trading platforms such as MT4 or MT5 also allow access to a wide range of asset classes available for trading.The development of trading platforms over the past decade has failed to successfully dethrone MT4 or MT5, notably in the retail market. However, in institutional markets, brokerage companies and banking entities also construct and utilize proprietary currency trading platforms to help satisfy internal needs with trades executed through institutional trading channels.By far the most important parameter for many retail clients is the optionality and pairs available on trading platforms. Additionally, demand by traders has led to a greater emphasis on newer features such as advanced charting and other tools.
In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real-time updates on quotes, charts and is the main frontend which customers are facing.Brokers either use existing trading platforms and sometimes customize them, or develop their own platform from scratch. Since the beginning of the retail FX trading business MetaQuotes and its platforms MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) have been the industry standard, especially when it comes to automated trading.MT4 Shows Resiliency While MT4 has long been seen as ubiquitous amongst brokers’ offerings, a targeted push by MetaQuotes themselves has led to broader adoption of MT5 in recent years. Advanced trading platforms such as MT4 or MT5 also allow access to a wide range of asset classes available for trading.The development of trading platforms over the past decade has failed to successfully dethrone MT4 or MT5, notably in the retail market. However, in institutional markets, brokerage companies and banking entities also construct and utilize proprietary currency trading platforms to help satisfy internal needs with trades executed through institutional trading channels.By far the most important parameter for many retail clients is the optionality and pairs available on trading platforms. Additionally, demand by traders has led to a greater emphasis on newer features such as advanced charting and other tools.
Read this Term, announced that Instinet, an institutional, agency-model broker, will be the first executing broker to integrate on the Appital Bookbuilding platform. By working with leading brokerage firms like Instinet, Appital is driving the technological infrastructure development necessary to integrate its platform into existing market structures and bring automation and innovation to equity capital markets.
Appital’s platform will be fully integrated with Instinet, thus bringing a traditional manual order flow process to an automated platform. Through Instinet’s integration with Appital, buy-side companies would have access to the liquidity and efficiency of executing on Turquoise, a global securities trading platform, with all-in-one straight-through-processing (STP) to more than 20 settlement venues. Triggered by demand from some of the biggest asset management companies worldwide, the integration would provide the buy-side community with a more transparent and efficient way to execute large orders with minimal risk of price erosion or market impact.
Over the last few months, Appital and Instinet have embraced close collaboration to develop a channel for new execution flow suited to buyside companies looking to get block trading opportunities and seeking greater exposure to European deal flow that they have not been able to access before. The integration is set to enable asset management firms to interact with like-minded institutions in the liquidity and price formation process, and any flow that is created and negotiated on the Appital platform can be executed via Instinet.
Mark Badyra, the CEO of Appital, said: “What we set out to do with Appital is provide unique, electronic price formation capabilities of illiquid equity positions to enable execution with minimal market impact or risk of price erosion. Through our collaboration with Instinet we have created a new execution workflow that has not existed before; one that best facilitates the needs of our joint asset management client base.”
Meanwhile, Richard Parsons, the CEO of Instinet Europe, also commented: “Embracing new technologies and finding new and innovative ways for our buyside clients to access hard to find
liquidity
Liquidity
Liquidity is at the core of every broker’s offering. It is a basic characteristic of every financial asset – be it a currency, stock, bond, commodity or real estate. The more liquid an asset is, the easier it is to sell and buy on the open market. Foreign exchange is considered to be the most liquid asset class.Brokers can source liquidity from a single or multiple source, thereby delivering to their clients enough market depth for their orders to get filled. The main characteristic of liquidity is its depth, which will determine how quickly and how big of an order can be executed via the trading platform.Understanding LiquidityLiquidity can be internal or external depending on the size and the book of the broker. Companies which are large enough and have material client flows consistently are creating their own liquidity pools from the order flow of their clients, thereby internalizing flows and saving on costs to send customer orders to the interbank market. By doing that however they are exposing themselves to carry the risk on the trade.Liquidity providers can be prime brokers, prime of primes, other brokers or the broker’s book itself. Traditionally brokers are split between internalizing flows and offloading trades of their clients to different liquidity providers.Generally, retail brokers and their clients prefer more liquid assets which lead to better fill rates and less slippage. When there is lack of liquidity on a certain market, slippage can occur – the order is executed at a price which is the closest available to the one requested by the client.
Liquidity is at the core of every broker’s offering. It is a basic characteristic of every financial asset – be it a currency, stock, bond, commodity or real estate. The more liquid an asset is, the easier it is to sell and buy on the open market. Foreign exchange is considered to be the most liquid asset class.Brokers can source liquidity from a single or multiple source, thereby delivering to their clients enough market depth for their orders to get filled. The main characteristic of liquidity is its depth, which will determine how quickly and how big of an order can be executed via the trading platform.Understanding LiquidityLiquidity can be internal or external depending on the size and the book of the broker. Companies which are large enough and have material client flows consistently are creating their own liquidity pools from the order flow of their clients, thereby internalizing flows and saving on costs to send customer orders to the interbank market. By doing that however they are exposing themselves to carry the risk on the trade.Liquidity providers can be prime brokers, prime of primes, other brokers or the broker’s book itself. Traditionally brokers are split between internalizing flows and offloading trades of their clients to different liquidity providers.Generally, retail brokers and their clients prefer more liquid assets which lead to better fill rates and less slippage. When there is lack of liquidity on a certain market, slippage can occur – the order is executed at a price which is the closest available to the one requested by the client.
Read this Term are core elements of our mission. Appital’s bookbuilding platform is designed to give our joint client base an automated, more efficient way to proactively source scarce liquidity, often over multiple days, and drive a quality block bookbuilding process. We are delighted to collaborate with Appital in preparation for their European launch, and to deliver even greater access to liquidity to our clients.”
How Appital Provides Innovative Solutions to Institutional Investors
The announcement by Appital comes at a time when the equity capital marketplace remains committed to continuing to provide institutional investors with a new platform to actively source liquidity, including in highly illiquid securities (often above 5 days ADV) with the aim of getting returns for the end investor.
In November last year, Appital hired Mike Wharton as its new Head of Product to spearhead the company’s vision towards the delivery of innovation and automation in equity capital markets. Such commitment is set to unlock and uncover liquidity for investors to provide them greater exposure to handle flow and execution opportunities. In September last year, FlexTrade Systems’ solutions integrated with Appital’s bookbuilding platform as the first EMS provider. Such integration with Appital brings automation and transparency to an area of the market traditionally plagued by opacity and outdated, phone-based bookbuilding activity. The Appital platform is recognized for providing full control and transparency over the bookbuilding, distribution and allocation process in more than 20 global markets.
Appital, an equity capital marketplace
trading platform
Trading Platform
In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real-time updates on quotes, charts and is the main frontend which customers are facing.Brokers either use existing trading platforms and sometimes customize them, or develop their own platform from scratch. Since the beginning of the retail FX trading business MetaQuotes and its platforms MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) have been the industry standard, especially when it comes to automated trading.MT4 Shows Resiliency While MT4 has long been seen as ubiquitous amongst brokers’ offerings, a targeted push by MetaQuotes themselves has led to broader adoption of MT5 in recent years. Advanced trading platforms such as MT4 or MT5 also allow access to a wide range of asset classes available for trading.The development of trading platforms over the past decade has failed to successfully dethrone MT4 or MT5, notably in the retail market. However, in institutional markets, brokerage companies and banking entities also construct and utilize proprietary currency trading platforms to help satisfy internal needs with trades executed through institutional trading channels.By far the most important parameter for many retail clients is the optionality and pairs available on trading platforms. Additionally, demand by traders has led to a greater emphasis on newer features such as advanced charting and other tools.
In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real-time updates on quotes, charts and is the main frontend which customers are facing.Brokers either use existing trading platforms and sometimes customize them, or develop their own platform from scratch. Since the beginning of the retail FX trading business MetaQuotes and its platforms MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) have been the industry standard, especially when it comes to automated trading.MT4 Shows Resiliency While MT4 has long been seen as ubiquitous amongst brokers’ offerings, a targeted push by MetaQuotes themselves has led to broader adoption of MT5 in recent years. Advanced trading platforms such as MT4 or MT5 also allow access to a wide range of asset classes available for trading.The development of trading platforms over the past decade has failed to successfully dethrone MT4 or MT5, notably in the retail market. However, in institutional markets, brokerage companies and banking entities also construct and utilize proprietary currency trading platforms to help satisfy internal needs with trades executed through institutional trading channels.By far the most important parameter for many retail clients is the optionality and pairs available on trading platforms. Additionally, demand by traders has led to a greater emphasis on newer features such as advanced charting and other tools.
Read this Term, announced that Instinet, an institutional, agency-model broker, will be the first executing broker to integrate on the Appital Bookbuilding platform. By working with leading brokerage firms like Instinet, Appital is driving the technological infrastructure development necessary to integrate its platform into existing market structures and bring automation and innovation to equity capital markets.
Appital’s platform will be fully integrated with Instinet, thus bringing a traditional manual order flow process to an automated platform. Through Instinet’s integration with Appital, buy-side companies would have access to the liquidity and efficiency of executing on Turquoise, a global securities trading platform, with all-in-one straight-through-processing (STP) to more than 20 settlement venues. Triggered by demand from some of the biggest asset management companies worldwide, the integration would provide the buy-side community with a more transparent and efficient way to execute large orders with minimal risk of price erosion or market impact.
Over the last few months, Appital and Instinet have embraced close collaboration to develop a channel for new execution flow suited to buyside companies looking to get block trading opportunities and seeking greater exposure to European deal flow that they have not been able to access before. The integration is set to enable asset management firms to interact with like-minded institutions in the liquidity and price formation process, and any flow that is created and negotiated on the Appital platform can be executed via Instinet.
Mark Badyra, the CEO of Appital, said: “What we set out to do with Appital is provide unique, electronic price formation capabilities of illiquid equity positions to enable execution with minimal market impact or risk of price erosion. Through our collaboration with Instinet we have created a new execution workflow that has not existed before; one that best facilitates the needs of our joint asset management client base.”
Meanwhile, Richard Parsons, the CEO of Instinet Europe, also commented: “Embracing new technologies and finding new and innovative ways for our buyside clients to access hard to find
liquidity
Liquidity
Liquidity is at the core of every broker’s offering. It is a basic characteristic of every financial asset – be it a currency, stock, bond, commodity or real estate. The more liquid an asset is, the easier it is to sell and buy on the open market. Foreign exchange is considered to be the most liquid asset class.Brokers can source liquidity from a single or multiple source, thereby delivering to their clients enough market depth for their orders to get filled. The main characteristic of liquidity is its depth, which will determine how quickly and how big of an order can be executed via the trading platform.Understanding LiquidityLiquidity can be internal or external depending on the size and the book of the broker. Companies which are large enough and have material client flows consistently are creating their own liquidity pools from the order flow of their clients, thereby internalizing flows and saving on costs to send customer orders to the interbank market. By doing that however they are exposing themselves to carry the risk on the trade.Liquidity providers can be prime brokers, prime of primes, other brokers or the broker’s book itself. Traditionally brokers are split between internalizing flows and offloading trades of their clients to different liquidity providers.Generally, retail brokers and their clients prefer more liquid assets which lead to better fill rates and less slippage. When there is lack of liquidity on a certain market, slippage can occur – the order is executed at a price which is the closest available to the one requested by the client.
Liquidity is at the core of every broker’s offering. It is a basic characteristic of every financial asset – be it a currency, stock, bond, commodity or real estate. The more liquid an asset is, the easier it is to sell and buy on the open market. Foreign exchange is considered to be the most liquid asset class.Brokers can source liquidity from a single or multiple source, thereby delivering to their clients enough market depth for their orders to get filled. The main characteristic of liquidity is its depth, which will determine how quickly and how big of an order can be executed via the trading platform.Understanding LiquidityLiquidity can be internal or external depending on the size and the book of the broker. Companies which are large enough and have material client flows consistently are creating their own liquidity pools from the order flow of their clients, thereby internalizing flows and saving on costs to send customer orders to the interbank market. By doing that however they are exposing themselves to carry the risk on the trade.Liquidity providers can be prime brokers, prime of primes, other brokers or the broker’s book itself. Traditionally brokers are split between internalizing flows and offloading trades of their clients to different liquidity providers.Generally, retail brokers and their clients prefer more liquid assets which lead to better fill rates and less slippage. When there is lack of liquidity on a certain market, slippage can occur – the order is executed at a price which is the closest available to the one requested by the client.
Read this Term are core elements of our mission. Appital’s bookbuilding platform is designed to give our joint client base an automated, more efficient way to proactively source scarce liquidity, often over multiple days, and drive a quality block bookbuilding process. We are delighted to collaborate with Appital in preparation for their European launch, and to deliver even greater access to liquidity to our clients.”
How Appital Provides Innovative Solutions to Institutional Investors
The announcement by Appital comes at a time when the equity capital marketplace remains committed to continuing to provide institutional investors with a new platform to actively source liquidity, including in highly illiquid securities (often above 5 days ADV) with the aim of getting returns for the end investor.
In November last year, Appital hired Mike Wharton as its new Head of Product to spearhead the company’s vision towards the delivery of innovation and automation in equity capital markets. Such commitment is set to unlock and uncover liquidity for investors to provide them greater exposure to handle flow and execution opportunities. In September last year, FlexTrade Systems’ solutions integrated with Appital’s bookbuilding platform as the first EMS provider. Such integration with Appital brings automation and transparency to an area of the market traditionally plagued by opacity and outdated, phone-based bookbuilding activity. The Appital platform is recognized for providing full control and transparency over the bookbuilding, distribution and allocation process in more than 20 global markets.
Source: https://www.financemagnates.com/institutional-forex/instinet-first-institutional-broker-to-integrate-with-appitals-bookbuilding-platform/