23 June 2022, Paris. Horizon Software, 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 Software 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 Software Horizon, a global leading vendor in Market Making, Agency Trading and Algo Trading Technology, has been empowering capital market players for over two decades by building powerful algorithmic technology into its electronic trading platform and offering trading opportunities through direct connectivity to more than 80 exchanges worldwide. Horizon enables clients to quickly create, test and implement automated trading strategies in real-time, in line with its ‘Trade Your Way’ philosophy. Its platform can be easily integrated with rich APIs and allows proprietary strategies to be built while keeping traders’ code confidential. More information: www.hsoftware.com
