Adaptive Execution Platform


Find clarity with Quod Financial’s Adaptive Execution Platform (QF AEP)


Your clients are demanding and capital markets are increasingly global. Despite this, existing trading platforms have limited connectivity, only offering a hazy view of the market. So how do you meet your clients’ needs for multi-asset and cross-asset investment strategies and access to global trading markets? Above all, how do you help them take advantage of fragmented liquidity – wherever it may be – and adapt to fast-changing market conditions?

Without a flexible, multi-layered platform you could be left behind. We developed our AEP to seek out new sources of liquidity with fast-changing electronic algorithms. The result is truly adaptive trading strategies for your business.

QF AEP includes modules that support a variety of critical business functions, such as crossing and liquidity management, adaptive smart order routing and buy-side adaptive smart order routing. And like all of our technology, QF AEP is designed to integrate with your existing systems. You can deploy the functionality you need now and scale to future requirements as your business changes.

Our AEP architecture is layered to include:
  • Trading-Specific Complex Execution Platform (CEP). Listen, adapt, act. This is the philosophy behind our Trading-Specific CEP. We developed an in-house technology that listens to market events – such as market data and execution updates – to provide a truly adaptive, event-driven decision-making tool.
  • Order and Quote Management. The four main asset classes were in our sights from the outset. Our platform inherently supports orders and quote (IOI, RFQ, and Quote) and lifecycle management, as well as the relationship between different levels of parent/child orders. In addition, it provides cross-asset position and P&L calculation of proprietary trading as well as client activity. Our order and quote management capabilities provide the workflow between clients’ internal traders/dealers and middle-office/back-office users.
  • Connectivity. Connectivity needn’t be a headache. Ensure that your trading strategies can be executed across any venue that your client demands with our native API/Protocol exchanges, independent software vendor (ISV) connectors, market data feed-handlers and connectors to upstream and downstream systems. Currently installed connectors can be re-used, ensuring that cost and disruption is minimised.
  • Middleware. Accurate and timely information are the keys to building and executing great trading strategies. Tibco’s FIX engine provides QF AEP with a robust publish/subscribe environment that delivers the performance and reliability needed to operate in today’s nanosecond markets.
QF AEP - adapt to your environment.


Adaptive Execution Platform Diagram
What does this mean for you?
  • A light in the dark. Greater visibility into complex markets makes it easier to plan new strategies – and demonstrate your value to clients.
  • Money saved is money earned. As you add more modules to the platform, the total cost of trade can be driven down.
  • Meet the demand. Whatever your customers want – whether it’s cross-asset execution or multi-listed trades – you’ll have the answer.


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