Front Arena for Equities

SunGard’s Front Arena helps you to satisfy your equity sales and execution, proprietary trading and market making requirements in a solution that extends beyond a single-asset solution. Front Arena facilitates speed and automation at the trading front-end, order routing to multiple sources of liquidity, accurate pricing across vanilla and hybrid instruments and comprehensive risk control. Scalable and comprehensively connected in one n-tier architecture, Front Arena helps to simplify and streamline the world of equities.

Features

  • Offers efficient execution of customer order flow both cash and derivative
  • Covers internalization, best execution, reporting and compliance issues with MiFID-compliant crossing venue
  • Offers connections to major exchanges, ECNs, order routing networks and brokers’ on-line trading services
  • Contains quote server with sub-millisecond response times
  • Offers an internet client connectivity solution for full customization and ‘white labeling’
  • Contains cross-asset risk management, including risk matrix and scenario analysis

Benefits

  • Includes an extensive rules engine that allows users to automate the order flow intelligently
  • Leverages FIX connectivity, making it easy to develop gateways to liquidity pools
  • Integrates with SunGard’s Monis suite for convertibles pricing and analytics
  • Automates trading strategies such as correlation trading, cross border arbitrage and basket future arbitrage to eliminate manual intervention.
  • Helps ensure rapid deployment through unique Professional Services Validation of Scope (VoS) best practice