Increasing regulatory requirements, the rise of passive investing and ever greater margin compression have led to a challenging environment for the asset management community.
Firms 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 outsourced dealing desk, asset 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.
With our outsourced dealing desk, asset managers retain complete control over their broker and execution relationships.
They can be confident that their investment mandates are executed in the smartest and most efficient way, taking advantage of emerging execution opportunities and returning value to the end investor.
Outsourcing models most commonly used:
We offer a fully outsourced, independent dealing desk for firms wanting to transition from their legacy trading infrastructure to an outsourced trading function.
We augment the clients’ existing dealing desk, providing outsourced dealing services that enable the head of trading to continue to add value on large-in-scale and/or esoteric instruments or extend regional coverage leveraging the BTON solution.
Small and early stage asset managers use our ‘trading desk in a box’ as a quick route to market, scalable for future needs and to avoid operational overheads.
We offer a broker-neutral outsourced 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.
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 outsourced dealing desk covers: order management, pre-trade risk and compliance components, best execution, transaction reporting and in-depth transaction cost analysis (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 more transparent.
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 incentive to increase your trading volumes.
