Increasing regulatory requirements, the rise of passive investing and ever greater margin compression have led to a challenging environment for the asset management community.
They need to invest in innovative tools and technologies to take advantage of new liquidity opportunities and deliver returns for the end investor.
With BTON Financial’s insourced dealing desk technology, Investment Managers can reduce operational overheads, streamline operations and simultaneously improve execution outcomes for their end clients.
We enable buyside firms to take full advantage of the emerging execution opportunities by managing connectivity to all liquidity venues, the underlying trading technology and broker connectivity requirements.
We automate orders and workflows to ensure our customers can focus on improving investor outcomes rather than building and maintaining legacy technology stacks in-house.
Through our ever-growing broker relationships we ensure connectivity to all liquidity venues and manage the underlying trading technology and broker connectivity requirements.
We help their Heads of Trading translate data-driven insights into trading and execution performance.
With our dealing desk technology, Investment Managers retain complete control over their broker and execution relationships.
Models most commonly in use across our investment management clients:
We complement our clients’ existing trading operations with tech driven, insourced dealing desk capabilities. This enables Heads of Trading to automate a proportion of their activity and focus on adding value.
We offer a fully outsourced, technology, data and analytics driven dealing desk for firms looking to automate trading activity, reduce operational overheads and improve execution performance.
Small and early stage Asset Managers use our ‘trading desk in a box’ offering a quick route to market, scalable for future needs and to avoid operational overheads.
Managers can be confident that their investment mandates are executed in the smartest and most efficient way, taking advantage of emerging liquidity opportunities and returning value to the end investor. At the same time, they can evidence best execution for compliance and internal reporting.
We offer a broker neutral dealing desk to ensure that our interests are aligned with those of our asset management clients. Our brokerage arm won’t benefit from your flow, because we don’t have one.
We manage your existing broker relationships, connect to your preferred broker list and act like an agent on your behalf, giving you the confidence that your investment mandates are executed in the smartest and most efficient way.
At the same time, we enable you to connect to our ever-increasing network of brokers to improve access to liquidity, better prices and reduce brokerage rates.
A Broker Neutral Smart-Broker-Router
Our award winning broker neutral ‘Smart Broker Router’ automatically selects the most appropriate broker with the most appropriate execution algorithm to improve execution outcomes and returns for the end investor.
Our dealing desk covers: real-time pricing, order management, liquidity aggregation, pre-trade risk and compliance components, best execution and transaction reporting / TCA.
Our platform receives orders over FIX protocols; orders are validated and reported in real-time, offering the trading desk the flexibility to customise validation rules.
We operate on a subscription fee basis, which means our clients’ pricing model is significantly lower. We charge a fixed cost for the trading desk, with a fee charged by the bank/broker relative to how much you trade. This leaves us free to pass on your orders without any pressure to increase your trading volumes.
We believe in taking a collaborative approach to solving the complex challenges facing the asset management industry.
We are an active member of The Investment Association’s Fintech Community and delighted to be listed amongst ‘the fintechs to watch’.
We are also members of the FIX Trading Community and Innovate Finance.
