The Italian asset management firm Anima Alternative SGR has adopted a new analytics suite from financial services company Kepler Cheuvreux (KCx). The KCx API Analytical Suite provides stock-specific forecasts and analytics, such as volume, volatility, and spread predictions.

Anima Integrates with FlexTrade for Enhanced Analytics

Anima is accessing the tool by integrating with FlexTrade Systems' FlexTRADER execution management system (EMS). Through FlexTRADER's open API, Anima's traders can view KCx's analytics Analytics Analytics may be defined as the detection, analysis, and relay of consequential patterns in data. Analytics also seeks to explain or accurately reflect the relationship between data and effective decision making. In the trading space, analytics are applied in a predictive manner in an attempt to more accurately forecast the price. This predictive model of analytics generally involves the analysis of historical price patterns that are used in an attempt to determine certain price outcomes. Analyt Analytics may be defined as the detection, analysis, and relay of consequential patterns in data. Analytics also seeks to explain or accurately reflect the relationship between data and effective decision making. In the trading space, analytics are applied in a predictive manner in an attempt to more accurately forecast the price. This predictive model of analytics generally involves the analysis of historical price patterns that are used in an attempt to determine certain price outcomes. Analyt Read this Term directly in FlexTRADER's order blotter. They can also use the data to power automated trading strategies with FlexTRADER's FlexAlgoWheel tool.

“Our existing clients, like Anima, increasingly want differentiated sources of dynamic, high-fidelity pre-trade analytics to combine with and enrich their trading data,” Andy Mahoney, the Managing Director of EMEA at FlexTrade, noted. “Offerings like KCx’s new analytical suite are a perfect match for FlexTRADER EMS.”

The integration aims to give Anima's traders enhanced information to optimize executions. Alerts can notify traders if orders are unlikely to fill based on KCx's volume forecasts.

“We aim to ensure that Anima’s trading team is at the forefront of adopting innovations that deliver the actionable intelligence our teams need to optimize trading decision-making,” added Brian Corcoran, the Head of Trading at Anima Alternative.

Anima Alternative SGR is an asset manager within the Italian firm Anima Holding S.p.A., which manages around €186 billion. Kepler Cheuvreux is an independent European broker based in Paris. FlexTrade provides execution Execution Execution is the process during which a client submits an order to the brokerage, which consequently executes it resulting in an open position in a given asset. The execution of the order occurs only when it is filled. There is typically a time delay between the placement of the order and the execution which is called latency.In the retail FX space, reliable brokers always strive to deliver best execution to their clients in order to maintain a solid business relationship with them. This is a co Execution is the process during which a client submits an order to the brokerage, which consequently executes it resulting in an open position in a given asset. The execution of the order occurs only when it is filled. There is typically a time delay between the placement of the order and the execution which is called latency.In the retail FX space, reliable brokers always strive to deliver best execution to their clients in order to maintain a solid business relationship with them. This is a co Read this Term management systems for trading equities, fixed income, forex and derivatives.

FlexTrade's Strategic Partnerships and Advancements

In December, the company formed a strategic partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group. This collaboration is set to enhance the trading experience by providing FlexTrade's FlexTRADER EMS clients with seamless access to LSEG's FXall, a leading electronic trading platform for global currency products.

Just two weeks before this alliance, FlexTrade announced an integration with BTON Financial, a company specializing in data collaboration and order routing technology. This integration introduces AI-driven broker selection suggestions from BTON to FlexTrade's FlexTRADER EMS platform, aiming to optimize execution performance.

In November, acknowledging the challenges of technology and market fragmentation in the industry, FlexTrade welcomed Michael Kovach as the Head of Fixed Income Sales in the Americas.

Before that, the company partnered with Tradefeedr, a foreign exchange data analytics provider. This partnership aims to optimize FX trading workflows by integrating Tradefeedr's FX pre-trade forecast data into FlexTrade's FlexTRADER EMS platform.