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FlexTrade Selected as “Best Buy-Side EMS” at A-Team TradingTech Insight Awards 2024 

March 1, 2024 | By: Iain Smith

FlexTrade’s multi-asset platform, FlexTRADER EMS, picks up the honour following a stellar year.

London, UK, March 1, 2024 – FlexTrade Systems (@FlexTrade), a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, has announced that its multi-asset FlexTRADER EMS platform has won “Best Buy-Side EMS” at A-Team Group’s TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2024. 

The A-Team TradingTech Insight Awards celebrate excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions. The awards are decided by a combination of the TradingTech Insight Awards Advisory Board and A-Team’s readership voting, which includes the buy-and-sell-side trading community and other industry participants. 

FlexTrade’s success in the “Best Buy-Side EMS” category has been driven by several milestone achievements for its multi-asset flagship solution, FlexTRADER EMS, across the core product, significant new client wins and innovation over the past year, including:  

  • The launch of a new solution, FlexNIMS, designed in collaboration with Neuberger Berman to streamline new issue management workflows. 
  • The delivery of FlexA, a new Chat GPT-driven AI layer across FlexTRADER EMS, simplifies the interaction between the trader and their trading technology platform using natural language. 
  • The development of FlexDATA, a new suite of apps designed to help trading desks achieve a complete contextual view of trade implementation. 
  • New strategic partnerships for OMS with SimCorp and LSEG’s FXall in the FX trading space. 
  • Major client wins within the institutional asset management space, including notably Amundi Intermediation and several multi-strategy hedge funds in EMEA. 
  • A raft of new integrations, including BTON, Tradefeedr, and KCx’s API Analytics Suite. 

Anita Karppi, Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development in EMEA at FlexTrade, noted: “We’re delighted to pick up the “Best Buy-Side EMS” award in a traditionally competitive category. Over the past year, we’ve continued to make great strides in adding cutting-edge best-of-breed functionality within our multi-asset EMS across equities, fixed income, FX, Futures, and Options. From AI and data to optimizing new issue management workflow, the result is a raft of innovative functionality that can make a real impact on buy-side trading desks. We want to thank A-Team Group and the buy-side traders who’ve voted for us in this category. 

Angela Wilbraham, CEO at A-Team Group, and host of the TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2024, commented ‘Our awards celebrate excellence in trading solutions and services for capital markets and focus on vendors providing exceptional trading infrastructure, trading technology, and data solutions. Our congratulations go to FlexTrade for their achievement in winning “Best Buy-Side EMS” in a highly competitive contest.” 

To book a demo of FlexTRADER EMS, please contact: Sales_EU@FlexTrade.com