FrontRunner

Within its FrontRunner suite of products, the company offers direct market access (DMA) - market data, order execution and pre-trade risk constraints - through an independent and trusted infrastructure. The company's FrontRunner suite allows users to create a bespoke trading solution around their market access with comprehensive, inline risk constraints.

• FrontPrice Server distributes fast, reliable real-time market data to clients and/or trading gateways in a highly configurable deployment architecture that suits both screen-based and API trading or analytics requirements.
• FrontTrade Server provides fast, scalable and reliable order management for clients and/or trading gateways on all major derivatives and cash equity markets. The software is designed for highly configurable deployment architectures suiting screen-based and API trading requirements.
• FrontRisk supports integrated, low-latency pre-trade and at-trade risk management with easy integration to external systems.
• FrontRunner API (FRAPI) is a lightweight, multithreaded, asynchronous functional/callback style interface designed for integrating custom client solutions with the FrontRunner trading infrastructure suite.

FrontRunner enables trading firms to ​remove the limitations to innovation and growth as markets multiply and increase in complexity by creating scalable trading solutions.  Firms that normalise their market access using FrontRunner are able to:

• Lower costs by simplifying exchange connectivity
• Mitigate risk with a pre-trade view of exposure
• Simplify regulatory compliance
• Speed up on-boarding for both customers and venues
• Focus business and technology teams on innovation