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Enterprise Broker Workstation
Knight BondPoint's private label solution for financial professionals, the Enterprise Broker Workstation, allows firms to provide all tailored fixed income inventory and trading access on a customized external website or intranet for your company's Reps, Correspondents, or Sales people. This includes access to live secondary market trading, new issues, news and reports and tools through a seamless connection. The Enterprise Broker Workstation allows firms to maintain their corporate look and user experience and is fully configurable to display the appropriate level of detail and pricing for each set of users.

Benefits
The Enterprise Broker Workstation allows your firm to:

  • Attract and retain Reps, Brokers and Correspondents by providing access large amounts of competitively priced inventory and cutting edge Broker Workstation tools.
  • Potentially increase trades by providing increased visibility of bond inventory with easy to use and access tools on Broker Workstation.
  • Save cost and dramatically increase workflow productivity with electronic trades, integration to IMS and backfoffice operations for STP.
  • Add additional inventory for your customer base without having to commit more funding to holding inventory.
  • Standardize access, availability and workflow through your firm's trading desk across different groups of users.
  • Provide an Online Solution: Easy to install, maintain and use compared to client side deployed solutions.
  • Get Started quickly with an easy with to use browser based interface
  • Allow Reps, Correspondents and customers to do self-directed searches and price-discovery, freeing the trading desk for other revenue-generating activities.
  • Implement a proven system, with a simple setup process, and reliable service.
  • Provide a complete online bond solution with the country's most respected retail bond technology solution partner, Knight BondPoint.

Features
Features of the Enterprise Broker Workstation include:

  • Advanced multi-variable search: Allows brokers to easily search for bonds by type, maturity, yield, coupon, state and other criteria.

  • Access to Thousands of Secondary Offerings: Offerings include Municipals, Corporates, CMOs, Treasuries, Strip/Zero coupons and CDs. Online trading of these securities can be enabled or disabled according to the user group.

  • New Issues: Knight BondPoint provides platform participants with unique online access to New Issues bonds: Municipals, Corporates, Agencies and CDs.

  • Bid Wanted: Bid Wanted allows users to send requests for Bids to the trading desk and then on to Knight BondPoint. Knight BondPoint routes Bid Wanteds to dealers and returns the results to the desk, which may then accept the bid and complete the transaction.

  • Reporting & Analysis: Bond Ladder and Offerings reports for external use to clients showing re-offer price and for internal use showing reps mark-up/ commission.

  • Saved Queries: For users who regularly run similar searches.

  • Filters: Querying will feature Fixed Income offerings from the offering dealers on the Knight BondPoint ECN. Clients may choose to filter out inventory by dealer or by bond characteristic to ensure that users are seeing inventory that you deem appropriate.

  • Composite Bond Rates: Continuously updated snapshot of current rates on the platform, which are shown net of your markup.

  • Descriptive Data: Securities database of descriptive information including bond ratings, call schedules etc.

  • Commission Management: Standard mark-ups can be built in for each rep group, and then can be changed by each rep as appropriate on specific bonds.

  • Order Management: Screen to track pending and completed orders.

  • Bond Calculator: Calculator for all major bond types that can be used to do analysis on bonds on the ECN or on a CUSIP in a clients' portfolio.

  • Account Validation: Process written to your internal systems to ensure account is valid and has funds.

  • Batch Allocation: Ability to allocate to multiple customer accounts.

  • Multiple roles supported: users supported include Traders, Reps, Compliance, and Administrators.

For more information on the Knight BondPoint Enterprise Broker Workstation, please contact sales@knightbondpoint.com or call 800.373.9478.

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Knight BondPoint Broker Workstation
Knight BondPoint Broker Workstation provides access to the Knight BondPoint ECN for smaller broker dealers, institutional customers and qualified financial services professionals. After opening an account with Knight BondPoint, Knight BondPoint Broker Workstation users may directly access inventory on the Knight BondPoint ECN.

For more information, please contact sales@knightbondpoint.com or call 800.373.9478.

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