Headstrong provides various customizable components that enable financial firms to manage orders, match order flows and manage trades.
These components are designed to achieve significant cost efficiencies, enhance execution speed and improve the quality of transactions, reach higher rates of reliability and productivity, as well as gain flexibility to manage changing business needs and market innovations.
We offer a variety of related ‘quick start’ components in the following key areas:
- Matching and Crossing Engines
- FIX Engine and Gateways
- Risk Management
- Position Keeping and Margining
- Order Routing and Management
- Trading and Market Making
- Clearing and Settlement
- Wealth Management
- Securities Lending
- Internet Trading
- Central Securities Depository
- Web-based IPOs and Distribution Platform
Headstrong has more than 20 years of experience in developing marketplace solutions, not just for traditional regulated marketplaces but also for ATSs, ECNs and modern internal execution destinations. Our highly customizable components have helped our clients speed up implementation by leveraging these ‘out of the box’ services.
STRIDE, our flagship product, provides solutions for marketplaces that can be easily customized according to client requirements. It supports various modes of matching, like auction based, continuous and negotiation algorithms. It supports the FIX 4.2 protocol accepted worldwide and can handle various product types, such as equities, fixed income and derivatives.
Pressure to reduce trading costs and minimize market impact increasingly compels market players to consider internalization and crossing systems. By exploiting opportunities from order flows across various internal and external sources, firms promote internal efficiencies and deliver improved execution services at lower cost.
Experience
Headstrong brings a rich portfolio of customizable marketplace management services to match your needs. Our knowledge and experience in the securities industry provides end-to-end solutions that drive value immediately, from assessment/strategy to component selection and deployment, technology integration and implementation, application development through offshore application maintenance.
With facilities in India and the Philippines, two of the leading offshore destinations in the world, development work can be moved to highly-qualified practitioners, thus increasing overall value to our clients and keeping costs down. Furthermore, Headstrong manages these complex distributed projects using standard methods and processes developed over the years operating as James Martin & Company.
Exchanges/Internal Matching Solutions
- Brokerage Solutions
- Exchange Solutions
- Internal Marketplace Solutions
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