The move of front-office trading to the electronic model continues to be an important industry driver, first for listed instruments and now increasingly prevalent in the major OTC markets. Allied to this has been the push for Straight Through Processing post-trade, and effective implementation of strategies in both of these domains has become critical to the competitiveness of trading firms world-wide.

As the importance of electronic trading has grown, so have the opportunities to employ technology in the execution of advanced trading strategies. And as more and more emerging and OTC markets join the electronic world, these trading strategies are in many cases developing across asset classes. Cross-asset trading exploits the electronic connections between markets to the maximum, and is becoming a significant area for innovation and establishment of new competitive differentiators.

All of these trends, together with the resulting need for high performance in market data analysis, trading and reporting, are giving rise to new business challenges that demand fast, scalable, secured and flexible trading platforms as part of the response.

As a pioneer in multi-asset electronic trading, GL TRADE has developed its product strategy to respond to these needs: our order management and trading suites cover all asset classes: Equities, Fixed Income, ETD & Commodities, FX & Money Markets, IRD and Credit Derivatives. The global range of electronic market connectivity that we offer, for each asset class and also across all of them, is unequalled.

Our 20+ years of Front Office experience and expertise are built into a comprehensive software product line, ranging from powerful trading workstations through sophisticated order management, high-performance market gateways and risk management solutions, to advanced execution toolsets. This suite of capabilities is combined with a full range of services, designed to help streamline your projects and get the best results from our integrated front-to-back solutions.

Where you require customized and dedicated solutions and services, our Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework enables you to integrate the elements that you require from our multi-asset product range and expertise into your own platform architecture. We can therefore offer a complete technology partnership for your trading business operations.