Fixed Income Trading - Charles River Development · Fixed Income Trading Full Trade Life Cycle Support on a Single Platform The Charles River Investment Management Solution (IMS)

Fixed Income Trading Full Trade Life Cycle Support on a Single Platform

The Charles River Investment Management Solution (IMS) consolidates all fixed income trading on one scalable and simplified platform. Charles River IMS provides full trading lifecycle support that incorporates key data at the point of execution and direct connectivity to ECNs and other liquidity providers. This reduces context switching with external systems and streamlines the fixed income trading process. Traders can easily access critical information, find liquidity and quickly execute trades.

• Improves access to liquidity

• Facilitates price discovery

• Enhances trade execution quality

• Trader-centric functionality

• Direct integration with dealer inventory, trading venues & trade data

• Search and mine trade history to improve decision support

• Single platform with integrated portfolio management

• Consolidates & simplifies fixed income market data into a single system

• Support for standard FIX protocol & file integration

• Reduce the cost of trading by reducing manual intervention

Key Benefits

Charles River IMS supports the entire trade life cycle

Charles River IMS incorporates key data at the point of execution and direct connectivity to ECNs and other liquidity providers

Industry Trade Data Dealer Inventory

Indicative PricesDealer RunsAxes

“Click to Trade”Streaming PricesDirect Connectivity

ATS Venue Aggregation

FIX Execution Options

Solicited Direct Integration

Internal Order & Trade Data

Other Data Providers

Fixed Income Trading Overview

Inventory Aggregation Inventory aggregation removes a trader’s dependency on the antiquated and error prone manual process. The system aggregates indicative prices streamed directly from the dealer community and displays this data grouped by dealer. Indicative pricing is intended to enhance the phone conversations between traders and dealers, allowing them to see pricing in real-time.

Firm’s Trade History Trade history views are driven off of firm trade data, and provide trade summary details for all orders executed in a selected security. These views are highly configurable, and can display trade summary details based on a specific set of criteria such as ratings, sector, maturity date, and issuer. This screen and the underlying database provide the framework and building blocks for advanced execution quality metrics.

A consolidated view of orders, quotes, prices and trade history enables streamlined workflows for fixed income managers

This view displays indicative prices streamed in directly from the dealer community

Click-to-execute functionality improves trader efficiency by providing streaming firm and executable prices

Charles River Development reserves the right to change plans, priorities and future enhancements at any time without notice. (Updated January 2016)

Integrated Electronic Execution Charles River IMS supports bi-directional FIX connectivity with fixed income ECNs and other electronic venues. Traders can request firm and executable prices, which are then aggregated and displayed in a standard view by Price, Size, and Time. The user can then execute against these prices, which will generate a FIX order and facilitate execution with the sponsoring venue. All trading and price discovery activities are integrated within the system.

About Charles River Charles River provides an end-to-end solution to automate front and middle office investment management functions across asset classes on a single platform. Delivered as a hosted service, the solution offers a simplified operating model that improves data quality and investment professional productivity, controls risk and lowers technology costs. Charles River serves more than 350 investment firms in over 44 countries in the institutional asset and fund management, private wealth, alternative investments, insurance, banking, and pension markets.