Catalys for Investment Managers
Investment Managers who are tasked with cost efficiently connecting to counterparties, asset classes and liquidity pools, select Catalys to address their requirements.
Catalys provides fast, seamless connection to multiple brokers, enabling greater control through FIX normalization of disparate flows. Investment Managers can reduce overall cost of trades with a solution that scales easily to meet their evolving business needs.
At the core of Catalys is a unique grasp of the FIX world that comes from a concentration of the world’s largest FIX deployments.
Catalys provides Investment Managers with the enhancements and functionality they require to …
- Achieve accuracy and reliability
- Access easy, low cost FIX-enablement: plug and play technology with no development required
- Connect to multiple counterparties, automatically
- Normalize disparate flows
- Scale infrastructure to meet new business requirements
- Access liquidity via smart order routing
- Connect to all asset classes and liquidity pools
- Reduce overall cost of trades
- Achieve a high level of automation, suitable for medium and high volume users
- Enjoy consistent 10 micro-second latency
- Integrate with C++, .NET, and JAVA based algorithmic execution engines
Resources
Download Brochure
For more information on Catalys for Investment Managers, please download the PDF.
Catalys for Investment Managers
(US Letter) [344KB]
Catalys for Investment Managers
(A4) [344KB]
Catalys 2.0 Highlights
(US Letter) [406KB]
Catalys 2.0 Highlights
(A4) [369KB]
Catalys Modules
Other Solutions
Manage Data Flow around the FIX Flow
Firms are under greater commercial and regulatory pressure to process a larger field of data beyond the parameters of the FIX protocol. Performance data related to latency and throughput are as critical to trading analysis and strategies as the orders and the execution data.
The ability to capture, manage and report the mass of peripheral data is a first-level requirement of FIX deployments today:
- Configuration data to ensure clients can trade as planned
- Performance data to represent and report on performance
- Operational data to inform a user base rendered larger by rounds of infrastructure consolidations
- Synergistic aggregations on the status of trading backbones
Catalys translates all the data to intelligence to help firms detect and capture a greater level of market opportunities, in turn better serving their customers.
FIX Trading Backbone:
Financial firms worldwide increasingly require a trading platform that does not revolve around an Order Management System. Orders today are routed from an OMS and processed through internalizers or dark pools. They fragment into slices under the direction of increasingly sophisticated execution algorithms, hitting multiple executions venues via smart routers and complex event processing platforms — all at increasingly fast speeds.
The traditional OMS cannot handle demanding levels of execution flow and actually gets in the way of the necessarily sophisticated routing decisions for these. The emerging architectural preference therefore is for a trading platform centered on an open connectivity backbone that is capable of:
- handling increased volumes
- providing performance triggers to capture trading opportunities, and
- seamless integration with a complex set of specialized decision-making tools to deliver optimal trading effectiveness
Transparency for Optimized Performance
Without performance, FIX won’t go far. Firms of all sizes need optimal performance and control over real life trading activities. Catalys provides a framework to locate performance bottlenecks / outliers and provide statistical views of performance metrics of all key variables.
Pluggability
Like CameronFIX, Catalys is based on a component model with the FIX and FAST libraries at its core. Pluggable implementations then provide the various functions and services around these. The infrastructure is complemented by a large selection of technology adapters for optimal integration.
A Powerful API
Catalys nodes and services are entirely managed and configured via JMX. They are built to provide the scalability of a global management infrastructure through a single API.
Migrating to Catalys can be Painless
If you are an existing CameronFIX customer, Catalys provides migration scripts that make a transition relatively smooth. If you use other FIX engines, you will find the embedded Catalys rules engine and other modules can address many requirements with no development involved and in much less time than you might expect. Furthermore, under our guidance many CameronTec partners assist in optimizing deployments and architectures in regions where we are not present.
