23 June 2022, Paris. Horizon Trading Solutions, a global leading vendor in Market Making, Agency Trading and Algo Trading Technology, announces today that its trading platform is now supporting AMC (Actively Managed Certificates). Horizon is enhancing its capabilities to enable clients to manage the whole AMC trading lifecycle, including:
- AMC Product Definition, including ability to handle live updates
- Cross-asset instruments – equities & derivatives, FX, FI, Commos & Cryptos
- AMC Pricing, leveraging our Basket Pricer
- AMC Quoting, based on our market making automaton
- AMC Hedging and Rebalancing, thanks to our OMS, hedging engine and market standard FIX Engine
- Business logic customization, with our flagship Algo Framework
This AMC platform is designed with a combination of our proven software components currently supporting execution desks and brokers and our historical core business product for Principal Trading and Market Making.
On top of the off-the-shelf abilities of the platform, our clients can leverage our algo Framework to further extend its capabilities, whether this is to customize the AMC pricing logic, fine-tune the automated execution engine or implement Straight Through Processing rules to streamline the execution process. This new capability is a tailor-made solution for financial services companies who wish to provide advanced AMC lifecycle management, and can be seamlessly plugged into platforms of our existing customers.
Alexandre CHRIQUI, Global Head of Client Success Management at Horizon Trading Solutions explains: “Leveraging the ability to combine agency and principal trading capabilities into a single trading platform plus the historical market making expertise on certificates and structured products, we are now able to support the full AMC trading lifecycle with Horizon, from AMC definition, pricing, quoting, rebalancing and hedging.”
About Horizon Trading Solutions
Horizon Trading Solutions is an independent global technology company specializing in electronic trading, supporting agency and principal businesses across equities, derivatives, and virtual assets. For over 20 years, we have empowered the world’s leading capital market participants with cutting-edge algorithmic technology and direct exchange connectivity. Our multi-asset platform and deep commitment to client success allow us to deliver Performance Simplified: making it easy to excel in trading. https://horizontrading.io/
