Distribution

Price distribution

FX options and metal options

Sales is an advanced component available within kACE Options Pro, which gives sales personnel and sales traders the independence to quote accurately and directly with traderbacked prices. They can also generate term sheets at the push of a button, helping them to improve accuracy and save time.

A complete sales solution in one platform

The Sales component features:

  • Internal distribution of products to the sales organisation via kACE or existing interfaces or bespoke front-end applications
  • External distribution of products to clients via multi-dealer platforms or bespoke front end applications
  • Customer tiering and full record keeping of margin across stakeholder desks
  • A dealing engine that automates client price generation and distribution
  • Easy customisation of workflow and rules for tradability
  • Tools such as graphing, product idea generation, term sheets and confirmations
  • Configurable term sheets and confirmations for client branding
  • Custom strategy design with instant distribution to sales personnel
  • A completely electronic sales to trader Request for Quote (RFQ) workflow
  • Full control over rollout of new structures and complete audit trail of RFQs


Interest rates and FX

kACE’s data publishing module distributes prices and calculations to a wide variety of destinations. This is particularly beneficial for clients with both internal and customer-facing e-commerce plat-forms.

Control and safety are essential parts of our solution. If any price made breaks a preset rule, it will be automatically withdrawn from the market and the ecommerce platform will revert to displaying no price for that product.

Key features include:

  • An integrated, easy-to-use publishing dashboard
  • Full support of multiple publishing targets
  • Global/regional/local spread management
  • Ability to skew and spread individual targets as groups or individual tenors
  • Option to publish Curve to middle office systems
  • Full validation and flexible throttling of outgoing data to ensure downstream systems are not flooded
  • Specific rules which withdraw published prices but also offer control if the validation fails


Dealing Distribution

The Liquidity APIs (application programming interfaces) are designed to enhance dealing
workflow solutions between systems.

The suite of APIs includes:

Liquidity API

The Liquidity API interacts with the components of kACE Pro, which are responsible
for sending and responding to requests. This extends the sophistication of price distribution to
auto-dealing workflow solutions. The Liquidity API is also designed for simple integration with
other systems and can be called by any system capable of making HTTP requests.

Liquidity Settings API

The Liquidity Settings API facilitates programmatic interaction with the components of kACE
Pro Options that are responsible for adding, modifying, and removing dealing rules through
the Liquidity Settings screen. The Liquidity Settings API is essential for specifying dealing rules
in real-time workflow solutions.

Risk Distribution

The same extensive reporting capabilities that are available in kACE Pro, are offered
programmatically by the Risk API (application programming interface). This allows users to
report on any aspect of their portfolio.

Reports can be executed in the following ways:

  • In the kACE Pro GUIs (graphical user interfaces)
  • Inside a web browser, using the kACE Reporting Server
  • On a scheduled basis using a scheduler
  • Programmatically using the Risk API


Data Distribution

kACE Pro - Market Data API

The kACE Market Data API allows users to publish spot, depos, swaps, and volatilities data into the kACE Pro database using XML. It is also possible to retrieve volatility information from the database.

kACE Pro Treasury

The kACE Pro Treasury data-publishing module distributes prices and calculations to a wide variety of destinations. This is particularly beneficial for clients with both internal and customer-facing ecommerce platforms.

Control and safety are essential parts of our solution. If any price made breaks a pre-set rule, it will be automatically withdrawn from the market and the ecommerce platform will revert to displaying no price for that product.

Key features include:

  • An integrated, easy-to-use publishing dashboard
  • Full support of multiple publishing targets
  • Global/regional/local spread management
  • Ability to skew and spread individual targets as groups or individual tenors
  • Option to publish curve to middle-office systems
  • Full validation and flexible throttling of outgoing data to ensure downstream systems are not flooded