State Street purchase Automated Agency Broker

by Adil Siddiqui
  • State Street is expanding its presence in the automated trading space as it announces the acquisition of Pulse Trading a Boston-based agency brokerage firm offering block crossing and blotter scraping technologies as part of its electronic trading capabilities. State Street, a provider of custody and asset management services, said it entered a definitive agreement to buy the firm in an announcement today.
State Street purchase Automated Agency Broker
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State Street is expanding its presence in the automated trading space as it announces the acquisition of Pulse Trading a Boston-based agency brokerage firm offering block crossing and blotter scraping technologies as part of its electronic trading capabilities. State Street, a provider of custody and asset management services, said it entered a definitive agreement to buy the firm in an announcement today.

The deal is expected to close in Q4 2011, pending regulatory and other closing conditions, according to State Street’s announcement today.

The transaction includes the acquisition of Pulse Trading’s institutional equities business and approximately 40 employees in Boston, New York, St. Louis and San Francisco.

“We look forward to joining State Street where we will continue bringing best-in-class trading technology to our institutional clients,” stated Christian Dubois, managing partner at Pulse Trading, in the release. According to Dubois, the acquisition will allow Pulse to extend its reach through the combination of its products with State Street’s scale and institutional client base.

“The acquisition of Pulse Trading is a natural extension of State Street Global Markets’ neutral agency model,” comments David Puth, EVP of State Street Global Markets.

“Pulse Trading’s sophisticated technology and block trading capabilities will expand the number of Execution venues and the range of electronic trading tools available to our clients and ultimately help lower their trading costs.”

Pulse Trading has proprietary technology, known as BlockCross, that aggregates block orders from algorithmic order flow. It connects with algo pipes from the top brokers. Pulse looks for crosses by sweeping the uncommitted order flow residing in Buy-Side trading blotters against the incoming algo traffic.

State Street has come under the radar after SEC was investigating their FX pricing, investigation is still taking place.

Grab your latest copy of the Forex Magnates Retail Forex Industry Report.

State Street is expanding its presence in the automated trading space as it announces the acquisition of Pulse Trading a Boston-based agency brokerage firm offering block crossing and blotter scraping technologies as part of its electronic trading capabilities. State Street, a provider of custody and asset management services, said it entered a definitive agreement to buy the firm in an announcement today.

The deal is expected to close in Q4 2011, pending regulatory and other closing conditions, according to State Street’s announcement today.

The transaction includes the acquisition of Pulse Trading’s institutional equities business and approximately 40 employees in Boston, New York, St. Louis and San Francisco.

“We look forward to joining State Street where we will continue bringing best-in-class trading technology to our institutional clients,” stated Christian Dubois, managing partner at Pulse Trading, in the release. According to Dubois, the acquisition will allow Pulse to extend its reach through the combination of its products with State Street’s scale and institutional client base.

“The acquisition of Pulse Trading is a natural extension of State Street Global Markets’ neutral agency model,” comments David Puth, EVP of State Street Global Markets.

“Pulse Trading’s sophisticated technology and block trading capabilities will expand the number of Execution venues and the range of electronic trading tools available to our clients and ultimately help lower their trading costs.”

Pulse Trading has proprietary technology, known as BlockCross, that aggregates block orders from algorithmic order flow. It connects with algo pipes from the top brokers. Pulse looks for crosses by sweeping the uncommitted order flow residing in Buy-Side trading blotters against the incoming algo traffic.

State Street has come under the radar after SEC was investigating their FX pricing, investigation is still taking place.

Grab your latest copy of the Forex Magnates Retail Forex Industry Report.

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