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Integration / Interfaces

The Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) offers an Open Integration Framework, which provides modern alternatives for integration with third-party and legacy systems. Tools for rapid integration include:

  • APIs for pre-trade and post-execution compliance, security and order creation, etc.
  • Web services access to the core application (SOAP over HTTPS / HTTP) allows for easy integration with other applications
  • Messaging services including IBM WebSphere® MQ, TIBCO Rendezvous™, Microsoft Message Queuing, SonicMQ® interfaces

In addition, Charles River has certified systems interoperability with a wide variety of accounting systems, data warehouses, market datafeeds, FIX networks and more. In each instance, Charles River works with the vendor to provide appropriate levels of system communication, ongoing maintenance, and support. In addition to the data / analytic, electronic trading, and post-execution interfaces listed below, clients have built numerous additional interfaces (not listed).

Premier Partners are indicated with this identifier: .

Data / Analytic Interfaces

Analytics

• Lehman Brothers / Lehman Live equity analytics
• Jefferies / Quantitative Execution Strategies (QES)
• Reuters
• The Yield Book Inc.

Data

• FT Interactive TurboFeed
• Price Import RTP Interface
• Markit Group Limited
• Reuters Triarch / SSL
• Reuters Bridge Station
• SIAC
• Telemet America, Inc.
• Thomson ONE / ILX
• Thomson GlobalTOPIC


Electronic Trading Interfaces

Algorithmic Trading

• BNY Brokerage / SonicPort
• Banc of America Securities / Electronic Trading Services (ETS)
• Bear Stearns / Equity Analytics Systematic Trading (EAST)
• CIBC World Markets / Global Electronic Trading Services (GETS)
• Direct Trading / DirecTrade
• Credit Suisse / Advanced Execution Services (AES)
• Goldman Sachs / Goldman Sachs Algorithmic Trading (GSAT)
• Instinet / Instinet Algorithmic Trading
• ITG / SmartServer
• Jefferies / Quantitative Execution Strategies (QES)
• JPMorgan / Electronic Execution Services (EES)
• Morgan Stanley / Benchmark Execution Strategies (BXS)
• Piper Jaffray Algorithmic & Program Trading (APT)
• Sanford Bernstein / Sanford Bernstein Algorithmic Trading
• Susquehanna International Group / Algorithmic Execution Suite (aXe)
• UBS / Direct Strategy Access (DSA)

Alternative Trading Systems (ATS)

Block Trading:
• Liquidnet

Crossing:
• ITG POSIT

Equity:
• ITG / Channel ITG
• Pipeline Trading Systems LLC / Pipeline Alternative Trading System

Fixed Income:
• MarketAxess
• TradeWeb

Foreign Exchange (FX):
• FXall
• FXConnect

Direct FX via FIX

• Bear Stearns Forex
• Goldman Sachs
• UBS

Direct Market Access (DMA)

• BNY Brokerage / SonicPort
• Capital Institutional Services
• Cantor Fitzgerald / eSpeed
• FutureTrade
• Goldman Sachs / REDIPlus
• ITG Triton
• Instinet Portal
• Lava Trading / Colorbook
• Neovest
• NeoNet
• State Street / Lattice
• WAVE Securities / Real Tick

Equity ECNs

• Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx)
• Bloomberg Tradebook
• Instinet
• Nasdaq / BRUT ECN

Post-Execution Interfaces

Prime Broker

• Bear Stearns
• Bank of America Securities
• CSFB
• Deutsche Bank
• Goldman Sachs
• UBS
• Lehman
• Morgan Stanley

Post-Trade Processing

Charles River supplies standard file formats (flat files or XML) as well as a library of exports formats and these additional interfaces:

FIX 4.2 / 4.4 allocations with TradeWeb, MarketAxess, FX venues, and equity brokers

• Omgeo - OASYSSM
• Omgeo - OASYS Fixed IncomeSM
• Omgeo - OASYS/TradeMatchSM
• Omgeo - TradeSuiteSM
• Omgeo - OASYS GlobalSM
• Omgeo - CTMSM
• ISO 15022
• Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (MBS Electronic Pool Notification)
• DTCC Deriv/SERV
• MarkitWire (formerly SwapsWire)

 


Accounting Systems

• Advent Axys
• Checkfree Security APL
• DST GPS
• DST InfoQuest
• Eagle STAR
• FIN
• FMC Pacer
• IBS VPM
• IDS GIM 2
• Metavante
• Princeton PAM
• Sungard Invest One
• Sungard AddVantage
• Thomson PORTIA

Custodians

• State Street Bank (SSB) Horizon
• CIBC Mellon
• Northern Trust
• Bank of New York
• And others via ISO 15022

Data Warehouse

• Eagle Investment Systems PACE

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