Exclusive Online Only ContentSunGard’s Front Arena Adds Trading Support for Xetra
November 17, 2009
SunGard said today it has added trading support for Xetra International Market (XIM) to Front Arena, its global capital markets solution for delivering position control across multiple asset classes and business lines.
Xetra International Market is a pan-European blue-chip trading platform recently launched by Deutsche Börse, one of the world’s leading exchanges. Front Arena’s connectivity to Xetra International Market has been available to customers since November 2.
XIM, based on the exchange's Xetra electronic trading platform, provides Xetra members in 19 countries with trading for European blue-chip stocks, including the constituents of the Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50 pan-European large-cap index, and allows Front Arena customers to settle trades in their domestic markets.
“Front Arena’s integration with Xetra International Market offers customers an optimized trading environment by providing the ability to leverage proprietary trading, as well as position keeping management, market making, online brokerage, order management, direct market access (DMA), smart order routing, out-of-the-box algorithms and more,” SunGard said in a release.
XIM integrates with Front Arena’s low-latency smart order router, which helps participants to add the trading platform as a new routing destination. Front Arena’s smart order routing capability is a component of its order management system, which helps customers extend existing order routing configurations to a multi-market environment.
"We are happy to welcome SunGard as an important software provider for Xetra International Market, our new segment for pan-European blue-chip trading,” said Michael Krogmann, executive director in the Xetra Market Development Division at Deutsche Börse. “By introducing the individual markets progressively until mid-January 2010, we are addressing the requirements of market participants. SunGard’s Front Arena will help to ensure that all processes, systems and interfaces for trading, clearing and settlement can be checked per domestic market along the entire process chain and integrated gradually."
Tim Dodd, head of product management at SunGard’s Front Arena business unit, said, “Connecting SunGard’s Front Arena to XIM will help our customers access liquidity at competitive prices. The addition of connectivity to Xetra International Market shows we are delivering on our promise to offer reliable solutions that help customers deal with increasingly fragmented liquidity.”
SunGard Data Systems, based in Wayne, PA, is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies. SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in over 70 countries.
