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Minerva is our 24x7 global order management and trading system. It is a truly real-time platform, with highly configurable workflows and tradescreens designed to fully support trading of all instrument types (equity, debt, money market, mutual funds, derivatives and currency). Minerva offers full FIX (Financial Information eXchange) support, easy integration with exchanges, ECNs and various liquidity sources. It works seamlessly with any front, middle or back office technology.
Competitive advantages
* 24x7 operation, with global access to a central system
* Truly real-time screen updates and integration of real-time prices
* Highly configurable desk structures, tradescreens and workflows
* Full cross-product functionality, including equities, mutual funds, debt, money market, derivatives, and currency
* Unrivalled throughput and scalability
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*Tradescreens
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* Highly configurable trading screens and blotters, stored centrally as user profiles
* Integration of real-time prices from Reuters and Bloomberg
* Published interface enables clients to develop and integrate their own controls in the tradescreens
Workflow
* Tailored workflow to support client-specific and asset-specific trading operations
* Support for multiple trading desks around the world and global book passing
* Highly configurable user roles and access controls
* Very detailed, easy-to-use audit trail of all user actions/system events
Order generation
* Order capture within Minerva or from multiple other sources, including in-house systems, third party packages, and spreadsheets etc
* Market-leading investment restriction checking through integration with Sentinel
* Sophisticated order routing rules based upon any data attribute
Trading
* Easy recording of quotes, placements and executions for a single order or multiple orders
* Intuitive view of liquidity, IOIs, trade history, etc
* Real-time prices integrated with the trading process
* Calculation of trade analytics, for example price/yield, and accrued interest through integration with the TIPS calculation engine
* Full support for FIX 4.0-4.2, including IOIs, orders, executions and allocations
* Integration with other liquidity sources, for example Instinet, ITG, Lava Trading, LiquidNet, NYFIX etc
* Message-based architecture enabling fast integration with any ECN/crossing network etc
* Sophisticated list/program order functionality including support for wave trading and FIX 4.2 list orders
* Support for contingent trading, swaps etc
Integration
* Seamless, real-time integration, through the LatentZero API, with existing front and back office in-house systems or third-party packages
* Generic data loading adapter enables data mapping and loading from any data source while the system is online
* Generic adapter processes for real-time feeds of trade data to any other system
* Full support for the FIX protocol covering IOIs, orders, executions and allocations
* Easy integration with exchanges, ECNs and other liquidity sources
Technology
* Supports Windows NT/2000/XP desktops
* Supports NT and Unix server platforms
* Multi-tier, distributed XML-message-based architecture provides high throughput and scalability
* SQL Server, Oracle or Sybase database for persistence and reporting
* ActiveX, Java and C++ APIs enable integration with other systems
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mutual funds
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