CMC at a glance
Empowering our clients and providing
first-class access to the evolving
landscape of investing and trading
Listening to our clients’ demands is
integral to what we do. Our continued
investment in technology will facilitate
an ever-improving range of financial
products to satisfy these demands.
At CMC we continue to invest in the
diversification of our product offering,
in particular expanding our reach to
non-leveraged products across existing
and new geographies. We believe
this will benefit our clients as well as
support the needs of our stakeholders
in driving earnings and profitability for
the Group.
Bespoke solutions in a dynamic world
Societal shifts in technology and demographics are driving far-reaching
changes in how platform providers serve the new generation of trading and
investing clients. Our purpose is to constantly maintain a superior and
unrivalled bespoke technology experience to our clients.
Leveraged
Internal risk management
Trade and Risk data is stored in a high frequency
tick database, where we record all stages of the risk
management system. We have large Quantitative
Analytics and Data Science teams which build out
both the hardware and software side of the analytic
environment to ensure that client order flow is
managed in the most appropriate way. Data science
and machine learning models are playing an ever-increasing
role in our real-time and offline decision making. Our
aim is to continually provide market leading access
to liquidity to our clients, with best-in-class platform
resilience through every part of our of offering.
Improving product offering and
pricingefficiency
We continue to invest in the diversification of our
products to enhance functionality for our clients.
We already offer over 10,000 products over our
leveraged platforms. Delivering this with the most
efficient pricing structure is paramount. Our pricing
system is continually evolving both in terms of
sophistication and latency minimisation. Latency is
measured in microseconds using high accuracy clock
time-stamping at multiple points through the system,
with real-time monitoring. Best execution internal
reporting allows for the setting of high standards of
execution quality.
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