IT SERVICES FOR DIRECT MARKET ACCESS FROM BASIC TO ULTIMATE

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IT SERVICES FOR DIRECT MARKET ACCESS

ATON has created and is continuously improving an extensive trading platform, designed with demanding infrastructural requirements and high data throughput in mind.

The platform is built in a modular fashion, consisting of a select set of interdependent systems allowing for the effortless expansion into new markets and algorithms while offering multiple connectivity options for both trading and receiving market data. A scalable trading architecture providing DMA, co-location, and special exchange programs is accessible via a variety of technologies and connectivity options .

The highly skilled team at ATON has domestic and international experience in DMA platform development that ensures stable and uninterrupted trading processing and market data feeds due to clear design decisions and a high level of support.

Equity Section

Available Markets

Instruments traded: shares, depository receipts, corporate and Russian federal local bonds, shares of mutual investment funds

More than 1400 securities of 700 companies traded The most liquid regulated exchange

Central depository and central counterparty platform More than 800 thousand clients registered

International markets:

Moscow Exchange Group:

FORTS Derivatives Section

Index, Currency, Commodity and Single-Stock Futures & Options The leading trading venue for derivatives in Russia and Eastern Europe Guaranteed execution of transactions and settlement obligation Among the global leaders in single stock futures trading

Sound RM system, adoptive margin requirements

Top 5 among the World exchanges according to the number of Stock index futures contracts traded

London Stock Exchange Group

North American Markets: NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, TMX

ATON provides access to a variety of markets with extensive potential for the implementation of algorithmic trading strategies. Comprehensive low latency connectivity enables Arbitrage, Market Making and other strategies with high efficiency on any of the markets listed above. We offer both Russian Financial markets as well as International markets where Russian underlying instruments are traded.

ATON Point of Presence in Moscow – M1 Datacenter

The M1 Datacenter is the best location to place HFT, and ALGO trading programs for low-latency Moscow Exchange market access with the Exchange Matching Engine situated at M1. Several options are available here: co-location in Exchange space, Proximity hosting within ATON’s space at M1, or a hybrid solution. ATON’s and the Exchange’s locations are cross-connected to provide the client with access to a wide range of Exchanges and Services via ATON’s DMA Infrastructure, directly from the Exchange co-location. International market data providers have POP’s at M1 as well that allow easy connectivity to international market data sources from both proximity and exchange co-location.

ATON Point of Presence in London – Interxion Datacenter

One of the significant advantages of being co-located at Interxion is access to a number of financial networks, market data providers, liquidity nets, and exchanges. ATON offers Proximity hosting within Interxion space with low latency access to the LSE and Moscow Exchange markets via dedicated lines and supports a full range of trading services there.

London – EQUINIX LD4

From EQUINIX client has the possibility to be connected to the Moscow Exchange POP located here for low-latency trading and market data transfer. ATON offers Moscow Exchange market access via FIX protocol from LD4 to get flexible and low latency trading on Russian markets.

London - LSE Datacenter

Co-location services within the LSE datacenter enable ultra-low-latency access to London Stock Exchange Markets for HFT, ALGO trading systems.

Datacenters

To ensure resiliency of ATON’s DMA Infrastructure there is a number of failover sites that protects market access in case of interruptions on the main sites.

Cross-connect within datacenter

ATON’s Infrastructure is available in both UK and Russian Datacenters so there is a possibility for a Client to cross-connect to ATON’s DMA platform within a chosen datacenter. We advise taking this solution to minimize network latency between client and ATON’s trading platforms.

Dedicated line

This option is available for ATON’s locations in both the UK and Russia. Client is free to choose any provider to set up connectivity to ATON’s DMA Infrastructure.

Proximity hosting

ATON offers proximity hosting at financial datacenters where ATON’s infrastructure and Exchange POP’s are located. The advantage of this service is to get low latency access to Russian and international markets for trading and market data transfer, a range of pre-trade and post-trade services within ATON offerings and to minimize cost of keeping own infrastructure for a client.

Internet\VPN

The best option to save time on the connectivity set up process, very flexible, cost effective solution.

Exchange co-location

The most interesting solution for HFT and ALGO tech traders is to locate their systems at a number of required. Exchange co-locations which are connected between each other. Such a set up allows ultra-low latency interaction with Exchange Matching Engines. ATON supports connectivity between co-colocations and provides integrated risk-management solutions for each market.

Provider’s Networks

SunGard Global Network

Ullink UL NET Order Routing Network

Access to a client chosen network which is not in the list could be developed on demand ATON is available on each network listed below:

Client Connectivity Options

ATON’s choice to provide clients with low-latency market access is to build a high-speed resilient network infrastructure based on the best practices and industry high-tech solutions. Datacenters on ATON’s POP map are connected between each other with redundant low-latency lines. Exchange Network connectivity is supported via redundant dedicated lines as well.

Roundtrip Network delay: M1 – Moscow Exchange – sub 200 µs Interxion – LSE Datacenter – sub 15 µs M1 – Interxion – sub 39.8 ms M1 – EQUINIX LD4 – sub 42 ms (in process of improvement to 38.6 ms)

Landscapes

Native API FIX FIX or API Native API Native API Equity Section Moscow Exchange FIX\FAST Exchange FIX Transactional Native API Micex Bridge Sponsored Access FIX2MICEX ATON FIX TEAP+ Pre-Trade Risk Control International markets

Moscow Exchange Equity Section

Moscow Exchange Co-Location ATON Proximity Hosting Co-Location Clients Proximity Clients M1 M1

Protocols and Technologies

Moscow Exchange Equity Section

FIX/FAST

Low-latency access to Moscow Exchange markets over industry-standard protocols for real time market data transfer and order routing. Points of connections are located in both Moscow and London datacenters; clients may choose any option of connectivity.

Market Data Transfer via FIX\FAST is available from exchange co-location and ATON’s proximity. As additional feature and cost effective solution we can suggest getting market data from all markets of Moscow Exchange group via one FIX connection.

This solution offers Moscow Exchange Equity Section access through proprietary protocol both for real-time market data transfer and order routing. Market access via MICEX Bridge is available from exchange co-location or ATON’s Proximity hosting either in Moscow or London. The most interesting feature of the software is the possibility to add a library which supports pre-trade risk control.

Native Exchange API - MICEX Bridge

Tools for margin trading only:

Tools for naked access:

FIX2MICEX

This module developed by ARQA Technologies allows FIX access and pre-trade control based on extensive risk-module.

There is a library developed by ARQA Technologies called MICEX PreTrade which is embedded into the MICEX Bridge. Hereby it allows native access and pre-trade control based on extensive risk-module.

Native Exchange API - TEAP+

Technically there are several protocols: Native Exchange API, FIX\FAST – transactional for order routing and udp\multicast for market data transfer. The main idea is to provide clients with separate trading accounts prefunded with stocks and cash without any additional risk-module in the middle.

All listed solutions are available from ATON’s proximity hosting and Exchange Co-Location to get low-latency. We can review any other possibilities for access – for example via VPN\Internet and cross-connection within a datacenter. For order flow control supervision terminal will be offered.

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Native API

FIX

FIX or API

Native API FIX\FAST

FORTS FIX Native API PLAZAII Sponsored Access FIX2PLAZA ATON FIX ATON’s Interfaces International markets FORTS Derivatives Section Exchange-based Risk-management

FORTS Derivatives Section Market Access

Moscow Exchange Co-Location ATON Proximity Hosting Co-Location Clients Proximity Clients M1 M1 QUIK

FORTS Derivatives Section

Low-latency access to Moscow Exchange markets overindustry-standard protocols for real time market data transfer and order routing. Points of connections are located both in Moscow and London datacenters; clients may choose any option of connectivity.

Market Data Transfer via FIX\FAST is available from exchange co-location and ATON’s proximity. As additional feature and cost effective solution we can suggest getting market data from all markets of Moscow Exchange group via one FIX connection.

Native Exchange API – PLAZA II

This solution offers FORTS Derivatives Section market access through the proprietary PLAZA II protocol.

This new and scalable solution developed by the Exchange provides a comprehensive, general platform for FORTS Derivatives Section market access. Plaza II technology provides low-latency market data access and high speed order routing capabilities.

Market access via PLAZA II is available from exchange co-location or ATON’s Proximity hosting either in Moscow or London both for market data transfer and order routing.

This module developed by ARQA Technologies allows FIX access and pre-trade control based on extensive risk-module. The main advantage of the module that it provides client with FIX interface instead of native one.

FIX2PLAZA

Protocols and Technologies

FORTS Derivatives Section pre-trade control is exchange based for each individual account. Sub-broker firm can apply for an omnibus account or a set of individual accounts. There is also an option of totally segregated account, providing no broker credit risk.

FIX/FAST

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Native API FIX or API FIX or API FIX or API FIX\FAST Exchange FIX Transactional Native API Sponsored Access FIX2LSE ATON FIX Pre-Trade Risk Control Moscow Exchange and International markets

London Stock Exchange

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London Stock Exchange Market Access

LSE Co-Location ATON Proximity Hosting Co-Location Clients Proximity Clients Interxion QUIK

Russian and International Exchange

Flexible access to all available markets over FIX protocol (versions 4.x) for order routing, and market data transfer. The advantage is a single universal connection based on the FIX Protocol to all markets, but another option is to set up FIX sessions per market to improve latency. The solution can be accessed via a wide range of connectivity options either via Internet for Standard DMA or from exchange co-location for low latency DMA.

The FIX based solution allows clients to connect to ATON’s DMA Platform, with many enrichments for flexible order routing between exchanges brokers and systems. ATON FIX supports the possibility of having pre-trade risk.

It is a multifunctional GUI for low touch trading with access to all markets available in ATON’s DMA Services including international markets. The terminal can be used for manual trading and as supplementary service for supervising co-location and proximity order flow.

ALGO and different order types Portfolio monitoring

Margin trading Sub-broker trading

Version for mobile devices Bi-lingual interface

Historical Charts

There is a STP connectivity from Bloomberg to ATON’s Trading Platform.

FIX Client Connector is an implementation of FIX-protocol (version 4.2.) which is a de facto standard for integrating various trading platforms. The Program Interface FIX Client Connector is used for receiving market data and sending transactions to trading venues through the FIX-protocol.

Protocols and Technologies

ATON FIX

Bloomberg Terminal

FIX Client Connector

ATON Trading Terminal from ARQA Technologies - QUIK

Technical analysis integrated tools

Daily\historical orders, deals, portfolio reports Customizable interface including scripting News feed

DDE and ODBC integration Notification system

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