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1. FRONT ARENA
RETAIL BRokERAgE
Build a better internet brokerage
The online services you offer your retail customers will stand or fall by easily identifiable
qualities. Can you offer a straightforward efficient user experience? Can you be sure
of robustness and high performance, even at peak times? Do you have a cost-effective
maintenance model?
Front Arena gives you the tools to build an internet brokerage that will comfortably
pass these tests:
• uild websites that deliver rich resources to your customers, with fast access to
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execution across multiple markets.
• perate on a platform with proven robustness and performance and extensive
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market access.
• Counter the challenges of regulation and liquidity with controlled maintenance costs.
If you are looking to establish an online brokerage or your existing service is creaking
under the weight of extensive maintenance costs, Front Arena has the answers. It is the
proven environment for building and running effective online services.
High-performance validation
By decoupling your order validation from the back office, you can give your customers true
real-time trading. Front Arena’s advanced pre-trade risk/validation engine simulates worst-case
scenarios for clients’ positions and orders at order entry. This provides cross-asset validation with
real-time margin-requirement calculations for derivatives across multiple currencies. Performance-
tuned, the validation engine continues to offer real-time protection, even during peak periods.
Proven
Front Arena can handle transactions securely
over the internet, even with very large numbers
of users and transactions. Current installations
comfortably service in excess of 200,000 users
and around 10,000 simultaneous logins. These
are able to process tens of thousands of orders
within minutes at market open.
A client router dispatch mechanism controls user
connection to a cluster of databases, ensuring
redundancy, upgradability and scalability. Front
Arena’s architecture ensures that you are
prepared for future growth.
Continuously upgraded to exploit technological
advances over the past 10 years, Front Arena
benefits from production maturity. The online Reduce Time to Market – offer your retail customers
our out-of-the-box Java™ trading environment.
service is powerful, proven and reliable.
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