FFastFill is the leading Application Services Provider for trading and risk management serving the electronic trading community.

FFastFill plc is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (FFA:AIM UK) and provides software and services to the global financial community. Headquartered in London with offices in Chicago, Prague and Sydney the full time staff develop and support over 80 financial institutions worldwide using the suite of FFastFill applications.

Central to the firm is specific market expertise and knowledge in exchange traded derivative instruments although multi-asset clearing and trading functionality provides many clients with equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, CFD and OTC needs. Straight Through Processing is a clear and very tangible result of the FFastFill product set.

The full trade cycle through front, middle, back and risk are covered though the FFastFill products and all are delivered through a Software as a Service (SaaS) medium.

FFastFill Connects to ELX Futures

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

FFastFill plc (FFastFill) has announced that it has passed ELX Futures, L.P. (ELX Futures) conformance standards to provide its clients trade execution connectivity for futures products traded on ELX Futures through its TradingPro service. ELX Futures received regulatory approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on May 27th, 2009 to become a Designated Contract Market with trading to commence...

FFastFill Connects to ELX Futures

Products and Services

Front Office
Middle Office
Back Office
Risk Management

Order routing, pre trade risk, execution and order book management are provided by the TradingPro and TrackingPro front office applications.

TradingPro and TrackingPro are used by a wide range of customers including leading global banks and brokers, proprietary traders, corporates, hedge funds and retail end users. Trading access can be routed through intermediaries, exchange direct (DMA), via FiX protocols or message bus API connectivity.

The coverage of global listed derivative market access is large and constantly being added to as are other asset classes.

Exchange clearing, matching, allocation and give in/out processing is handled by the SEALS/NG application.

Utilising the same high volume reporting technology as the FFastFill front office system, SEALS/NG provides a leading edge approach to middle office functionality through exception based processing and a powerful work-flow based GUI. Already used by over a dozen major financial institutions around the world. SEALS/NG is clearly the new alternative.

For automation and simplification of option exercise and assignment functions COPPER is the fast and easy way to reduce manual and error prone processes.

Eclipse is the FFastFill post trade processing back office solution. Designed as a multi-asset and real-time system built on the Oracle database Eclipse processes listed derivatives, equities, foreign exchange, fixed income, CFD, spread betting and OTC instruments.

In the listed derivative arena Eclipse is used by large global banks, general clearing and non-clearing brokers and on the buy side a wide range of asset and pension fund managers, stockbrokers, proprietary trading firms and retail brokers.

MarginClick is the FFastFill global margin solution and is used as a stand alone and third party integrated risk based margin engine.

FFastfill have developed a market leading risk tool-RiskPro-that incorporates both pre and post trade risk management taking into account real time p and l, credit line utilisation and risk based margin algorithms via MarginClick.

RiskPro is a fully agnostic application that is not tied to TradingPro and can be integrated into any ISV platforms and order books.

Risk management with RiskPro does not just focus on the front office as it takes real time feeds from SEALS/NG and Eclipse as well as the other third party middle and back office systems.