Buy side

BUY-SIDE

A wealth of buy-side dedicated portal services delivered through NYFIX, one of the largest FIX communities and most flexible and high performing communication platforms in the market.

Ullink provides low-latency, resilient and configurable connectivity to the financial markets. By connecting to NYFIX, financial institutions gain membership to one of the largest global trading communities. Our high availability network spans the globe, linking counterparties and venues across a full range of asset classes.
Our network offering further expands with a wealth of portal services including ioinet, NYFIX TCA, Drop copy and Matching.

UL APPIA FIX ENGINE

UL Appia is our state-of-the-art monitoring, configuration and customisation suite to enable third-party applications and infrastructure for FIX connectivity

UL Appia is our market leading, modular product suite that delivers everything needed to establish, configure, monitor and manage FIX connectivity. UL Appia covers the full spectrum from FIX-enabling individual applications to fully-managed enterprise FIX infrastructure.

UL APPIA supports the latest industry standards for SSL/TLS financial transactions and messaging encryption.

For more information, contact us at connect@ullink.com.

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UL Appia has universal low-latency connectivity across asset classes and messaging formats

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It allows access to a global community of over 1,500 counterparties and more than 90 trading venues, supported by local expertise

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UL Appia enables members to take control of their counterparty network, allowing them to add and remove connections easily

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The solution provides members with flexible and agile communication capabilities that can be adapted in line with changing business needs

NYFIX GLOBAL HUB

NYFIX is our global low-latency FIX community of buy-side, sell-side and trading venues

Ullink’s market leading NYFIX community links up over 1,500 trading partners via a global, low-latency network, and provides direct access to trading venues and the full range of Ullink managed solutions. NYFIX is one of the industry’s broadest, deepest and most robust FIX-based electronic trading communities.

We offer a Post Trade Analytics service free of charge to all our Buy-side NYFIX community members. In partnership with LiquidMetrix, you will receive a weekly report summary for Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA), execution performance reporting and venue toxicity, with the option to upgrade to a more in-depth service.

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The Ullink network is robust and reliable, based on NYFIX’s global, low-latency connectivity.

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NYFIX provides connectivity to thousands of international endpoints, positioning members at the heart of capital markets.

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NYFIX can be provisioned across a choice of Gold or Platinum hosting models, enabling members to deploy solutions onsite or through the robust NYFIX network

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NYFIX enables the reliable delivery of Ullink’s solutions and selected partner offerings to member firms

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NYFIX is enhanced by local expertise and follow-the-sun support.

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Ullink’s 15 global, proximity hosting data centres constantly ensure the resilience and reliability of the network.

NYFIX API

Need to connect to the NYFIX Marketplace with a simple API ?
We’ll FIX it for you.

FIX Enablement from the FIX Experts

The NYFIX API Service is the ideal solution for firms that want to FIX-enable their applications without bearing the cost of operating a FIX engine, and for those looking to reduce their current costs associated with hosting and operating their own FIX infrastructure.
With a wide range of SDKs for C, C++, .NET, and Java interfacing, the NYFIX API solution will provide quick connectivity to the NYFIX Network to all your applications
NYFIX API gives hosted access to our NYFIX Network so you benefit from our fully-managed services to keep your infrastructure permanently up-to-date.

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Outsource the technical aspects of FIX-enablement to FIX experts

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Reduce your costs by leveraging NYFIX infrastructure

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Increase speed of order processing and execution through a leading FIX engine

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Keep the full control of your transaction messaging

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Connect through a single access point to a global community of over 1,500 buy- and sell-side firms.

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NYFIX CONSOLIDATED DROP COPY

The Central Monitoring Hub for Trading and Risk Mitigation.

NYFIX Drop Copy and Trade Risk Mitigation Service enables clients to monitor global trading activity and exposure, independently of front office trading systems. Consolidate drop copies from all your global trading venues and brokers via NYFIX, providing an independent golden source of trade that can feed market abuse, surveillance, Best Execution and reconciliation systems.

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Independently monitor market position & exposure

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Facilitate regulatory requirements for Exchange trades reconciliation

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Enhance client experience with additional safety layer

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Reconcile primary trading logs against exchange drop copies

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Identify infrastructure or trading application failure and detect erroneous ALGO & trading behaviour

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Create an independent golden source for Best Execution, TCA and market abuse

IOINET

Create your perspective on Liquidity

NYFIX ioinet is a unique liquidity discovery solution that enables buy-side traders to quickly find and capitalise on global trading opportunities by combining sophisticated IOI analysis, filtering and alerting capabilities with seamless integration into a trading workflow and a global community of over 1,500 firms.

The unique features offered in ioinet allow buy-side traders to create personalized perspectives on IOI and Advertised Trade Information increasing their ability to find, and be alerted to, trading opportunities.

NYFIX ioinet facilitates the navigation through the vast volumes of pre- and post-trade data, improves liquidity discovery while minimizing market impact and information leakage.

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Access your IOIs where you want them: directly in your OMS, through its sophisticated analytical front-end, into your primary workspace or through a market data provider.

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Leverage the one-to-one permission-based business model to filter out IOI traffic and improve IOIs quality

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Access Global Liquidity through a single customizable view showing multiple markets

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Improve liquidity discovery thanks to in-depth analysis tools and advanced filtering capabilities

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Manage configurable Watch Lists and Tickers for real-time information on key stocks

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Limit missed trading opportunities with automated instant alerting

NYFIX MATCHING

FIX Post-Trade Allocation & Matching

Leverage the NYFIX network and FIX protocol to facilitate intra-day allocations and streamline post-trade processing, while mitigating end-of-day risk.

Ullink and Alpha Omega have formed a partnership to deliver comprehensive post-trade solutions in FIX to Asset Managers worldwide. Buy-sides can now confirm and affirm trades with sell-sides through a FIX-based service that sits within one of the industry’s largest infrastructures for multi-asset trading.

 

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Multi asset-class platform for allocation, confirmation and affirmation of trades

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Aggregate all domestic and international

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Easy integration with OMS systems

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Near real-time processing so errors are fixed intra-day

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Unified workflow and single web-based user-interface to cover all your trading systems

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Delivered as a cloud-based solution on a world-class hosting infrastructure

NYFIX MONITORING

Stay in control of your global order flow with NYFIX

Leverage field-proven monitoring solutions and NYFIX network to create a secured Business Continuity Plan & constantly be informed of your orders’ status.

NYFIX Monitoring provides your traders with a comprehensive view of your message flow, and offers powerful orders filtering & navigation features so they can manage the business globally.
No complex integration since the order flow is directly captured from the NYFIX Marketplace.

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Real-time access to the global orders from all your OMS systems

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Fully secured through advanced encryption mechanisms with NYFIX network

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Complete access to execution details

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Fully searchable and filterable consolidated order flow

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Based on field-proven UL Monitoring solution, live at 100+ clients

NYFIX TCA

Ullink has partnered with LiquidMetrix to offer our clients a market leading trade analytics service with unique benefits.

Ullink’s post trade analytics provides our clients with cutting edge Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA), execution performance reporting and venue toxicity. Comprehensive data reports at macro and micro level will give you valuable insights to help optimise trading strategies.

LiquidMetrix are industry experts in financial data research and execution quality analysis. The TCA methods developed by LiquidMetrix are uniquely suited to reflect our client’s multi-venue trading realities, including the modelling of venue latency effects and realistic performance analysis at a micro level.

The service is available free of charge as weekly report to all our Buy-side NYFIX members with the option to upgrade to additional services.

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The automated Report Generator can create and e-mail TCA, Execution Quality and Best Execution Outlier Reports in pdf or csv format.

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A unique, interactive Work Station will help you to analyse aggregate execution performance and ‘slice & dice’ your data across standard and custom criteria.

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Drill down to analyse exact market conditions and replay consolidated order books around the time of each trade, to help understand and diagnose best execution problems.

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Analyse market impacts around the times of your trades to help identify any gaming or toxicity associated with certain brokers, algos and venues.

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Gain access to a dedicated trade and order book database covering global venues with millisecond accurate Level 3 market data.

XILIX

ザイリックス

ザイリックスは直感的な操作を可能にし、グローバル金融市場対応の専門機能を兼ね備えた強力な執行管理システムです。

多言語対応の1つの ユーザー・インタフェースを介して、複数のアセットクラスのトレーディングを実現します。
業界最高水準でバイサイドにリアルタイムのコンプライアンス・チェック/管理機能を提供するザイリックス – その高い信頼性と優れた顧客サービスは、ULLINKの真摯 な取り組みによって強化されています。

(1) マルチ・ブローカー：グローバルで600カ所以上のカウンターパーティと接続が可能
(2) グローバルアクセス：世界最大のFIX金融ネットワークであるNYFIXへアク セス
(3) 安定性：サービス開始当初から抜群の安定性とアップタイム
(4) サービスへのコミットメント：アジアを拠点に、幅広い顧客層と金融ビジネスの専門知識に支えられた迅速かつ模範的な顧客 サービスを提供
(5) リスク・コンプライアンス機能：金融の諸規則、慣習に加え、トレーダーやアセットマネージャーの豊富な専門知識に基づい て確立された総合的なリアルタイム・妥当性チェック

Xilix is an intuitive Execution Management System which provides an expansive range of Global markets expertise and functionality to your desktop in a powerful trading system solution

It enables multi asset class trading through a single multi-lingual user interface.
Recognized as providing the most comprehensive buy side compliance checks, Xilix is strengthened by ULLINK’s commitment to reliability and exemplary customer service.

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Multi-Broker: connected locally to over 600 counterparties globally.

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Global Access: connected with NYFIX Services, the largest FIX financial community in the world

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Stability: Strong track record of trading systems uptime & platform services since inception

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Commitment to Service: strong client coverage & financial business expertise based in Asia providing responsive and exemplary services

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Risk & Compliance Controls: extensive real-time catalog of rules built from rich expertise of traders, asset managers and market intelligence.