Client Trading: Empowering Clients Without Compromising Control

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April 29, 2025

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Steffen Pedersen

Our Client Trading module represents a transformative leap in your platform’s capabilities, shifting from a purely managed service to a dynamic, client-centric ecosystem where discretion, autonomy, and compliance seamlessly coexist. By embracing this feature, you’re not simply enabling self-service trading; you’re architecting an entirely new paradigm of partnership and empowerment between you and your clients.

A New Way to Partner with Your Clients

With Client Trading, your clients can act quickly and confidently, leveraging your expertise without waiting for manual order handling. Through a secure, intuitive portal, clients can:

  • Place orders across asset classes (equities, fixed income, even derivatives) directly from their dashboard.
  • Tap into market insights and your proprietary analytics to sharpen their decisions.

It’s a trading experience built for how today’s clients want to engage, with sophistication, speed, and security.

Of course, client empowerment must be balanced with strong governance. That’s where Client Trading’s sophisticated permissions engine comes in.

Your Rules, Your Guardrails

At the heart of Client Trading lies a sophisticated permissions engine that you configure:

  • Tailored Pre-Trade Checks: Embed custom compliance and risk-management rules (e.g., concentration limits, counterparty exposure thresholds, ESG screens) to validate orders in real time, rejecting or flagging any that breach your firm’s policy.
  • Dynamic Permission Sets: Assign role-based entitlements to client segments, ranging from “view-only” and “order-entry” to “strategy-builder” and “model-manager”, enabling differentiated access levels that evolve as client relationships deepen.

Advanced Permissioning: Granular Control, Maximum Flexibility

Your clients are diverse, with unique objectives, risk appetites, and regulatory needs. Client Trading’s advanced permissioning framework allows you to segment access by client profile, granting high-net-worth investors direct access to international derivatives markets, while offering institutional LPs more limited orders in private debt.

No two clients are the same and neither are their investment journeys. That’s why flexibility must extend beyond trading, into how clients build wealth over time.

Supporting Long-Term Goals with Savings Plans

Consistency is the foundation of long-term wealth creation. With Savings Plans, your clients can automate their investing journey, helping them stay disciplined and aligned with their financial goals:

  • Automated Contributions: Clients can define a fixed amount to invest at regular intervals (e.g., monthly), creating a steady path toward their objectives.
  • Targeted Allocations: Contributions can be automatically distributed across selected portfolios, strategies, or individual instruments based on client preferences.
  • Goal-Driven Investing: By removing the need for manual intervention, Savings Plans turn long-term financial ambitions into structured, everyday action.

Savings Plans bring consistency and goal-orientation to your clients’ investing, reducing emotional decision-making and supporting long-term wealth building. At the same time, you retain full oversight and governance, ensuring that client autonomy never comes at the expense of control.

Governance, Audit, and Transparency

Every click, order, and rule-evaluation is captured in an immutable audit trail:

  • Comprehensive reporting dashboards allow your compliance officers to monitor permission changes, watchlist overrides, and STP exceptions in real time.
  • On-demand audit exports streamline regulatory submissions, due diligence processes, and internal reviews, guaranteeing both you and your clients remain fully accountable.

Because trust isn’t built on control alone. It’s built on transparency.

Redefining the Client Experience

Client Trading isn’t just another platform feature. It’s a strategic shift toward a more empowered, engaged client base:

  • Empowerment Meets Protection: Clients gain the autonomy to transact at their convenience, while you maintain absolute confidence that every trade conforms to your bespoke governance model.
  • Scalable Personalization: From retail investors seeking simple equity orders to savvy institutions running multi-asset strategies, your platform adapts instantly and at scale to each client’s unique blueprint.
  • Innovation as a Service: By exposing modular APIs for your guardrails, you invite third-party innovators to build complementary tools (analytics, robo-advisory modules, or tax-optimization engines) that integrate seamlessly into your trading ecosystem.

Client Trading is more than a feature; it’s a strategic foundation for the next generation of asset management, where trust, agility, and intelligence converge to deliver unparalleled value to both you and your clients.

Get in touch with our team today to learn more about Client Trading.

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