Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIRT) has just announced that it will launch new transaction cost and market impact models for FX and fixed income, as part of ongoing enhancements to its comprehensive multi-asset class TCA offering.
Kevin O’Connor, Virtu’s Head of Analytics and Workflow, commented:
Our ACE Analytics product has been the leading cost and market impact model in the equity markets for the last 10 years, extensively used by both buy and sell-side firms. Driven by strong client demand, extending the model to FX and FI reiterates our commitment to providing a full suite of broker neutral, multi-asset class analytics and trade execution solutions on our global platform.
The newly released FX and FI models will enable Virtu’s pre-trade and post-trade TCA clients to better manage execution costs and perform portfolio construction analysis using the company’s ACE Model.
Model applications include pre-trade execution strategy selection, performance benchmarking normalized for trade uniqueness and difficulty, portfolio trading optimization and portfolio liquidity metrics – functionality that was not previously available for FX and FI.
