Kepler Capital Markets Expands its Use of SunGard’s Valdi Solution for Access to UBS MTF
Kepler Capital Markets, a European financial services firm, has expanded its use of SunGard’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based Valdi solution to add access to UBS MTF, the multilateral trading facility operated by UBS Limited.
Kepler already uses SunGard’s Valdi for access to numerous other trading venues, including BATS Chi-X Europe and other European stock exchanges. The firm expanded its use of Valdi as part of its plans to achieve agile growth through new market access.
"UBS MTF has a clear objective to provide high quality Liquidity Liquidity The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent Read this Term to UBS clients and UBS MTF members. Efficient and effective provision of access by SunGard helps give firms an easier way to go live and access the liquidity of UBS MTF." -Richard Semark, CEO, UBS MTF.
“SunGard’s Valdi smart order router and SaaS-based connectivity services help us achieve price improvements for our clients by helping us capture the liquidity available on existing and new trading venues. Valdi also helps us find liquidity that is unavailable to other brokers. In addition, it helps us lower our overall trading costs, creating savings that we can share with our clients.” -Thomas Biotteau, head of 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, Kepler Capital Markets.
Valdi delivers global connectivity to trading venues on a SaaS basis, helping to reduce the cost of owning and managing the technology infrastructure while helping exchange members and their direct market access clients trade on global exchanges from any Valdi workstation or FIX application.
Kepler Capital Markets, a European financial services firm, has expanded its use of SunGard’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based Valdi solution to add access to UBS MTF, the multilateral trading facility operated by UBS Limited.
Kepler already uses SunGard’s Valdi for access to numerous other trading venues, including BATS Chi-X Europe and other European stock exchanges. The firm expanded its use of Valdi as part of its plans to achieve agile growth through new market access.
"UBS MTF has a clear objective to provide high quality Liquidity Liquidity The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent Read this Term to UBS clients and UBS MTF members. Efficient and effective provision of access by SunGard helps give firms an easier way to go live and access the liquidity of UBS MTF." -Richard Semark, CEO, UBS MTF.
“SunGard’s Valdi smart order router and SaaS-based connectivity services help us achieve price improvements for our clients by helping us capture the liquidity available on existing and new trading venues. Valdi also helps us find liquidity that is unavailable to other brokers. In addition, it helps us lower our overall trading costs, creating savings that we can share with our clients.” -Thomas Biotteau, head of 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, Kepler Capital Markets.
Valdi delivers global connectivity to trading venues on a SaaS basis, helping to reduce the cost of owning and managing the technology infrastructure while helping exchange members and their direct market access clients trade on global exchanges from any Valdi workstation or FIX application.