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[ S U R V E Y | E X E C U T I O N M A N A G E M E N T S Y S T E M S ] TS TS (TradingScreen) recorded the second-highest Reliability and Availability number of responses to this year’s survey, behind Latency only Bloomberg but this was down almost 30% year- on-year. Service Although Personnel execution has been the staple of Client TS’s business for many years, it has recently pivoted Ease-of-Use towards the more holistic, combined order and execu- Handling of New Versions/Releases tive management system offering, while also expand- ing its access to liquidity through partnerships with Breadth of Broker Algorithms venue operators such as Liquidnet. Timeliness of two Updates for has Broker Changes Over the past years TS maintained respect- FIX able Capabilities scores within the EMS survey and this year was able to show incremental Breadth of Asset Class improvements Coverage in almost all categories reviewed by respondents. The vendor’s Breadth of Direct to – Venues overall score this year Connections increased to 5.69 up from 5.64 Product last year – Development which was above the survey-wide average (5.56) of and the fourth-highest of the major providers Ease Integration to Internal Systems Overall Cost of Operation 2018 2017 5.42 5.46 profiled. The vendor also outscored the survey average 5.91 TS did not receive in 10 out of 5.88 13 categories. Although 5.67 a score higher than 6.00 in 5.66 any of the categories this year, respondents the vendor higher in 5.9 did score 5.88 eight of the 13 categories compared to last year, and 5.73 were areas 5.85 and while there where TS did receive 5.41 5.39 these were almost all decreased year-on-year scores, insignificant (less than 0.1). 5.5 5.92 Respondents for TS were split equally from a range 5.59 with around 5.55 half managing at least of AuM brackets, $10 million 5.95 of assets, with 5.66 most coming from the hedge fund 5.74 and institutional markets. The breadth of 5.78 TS’s asset class coverage also showed in the survey 5.63 5.65 from firms trading results, with a strong showing 5.42 foreign 5.38 listed derivatives, exchange and fixed income in addition to 5.7 equities. 5.6 5.88 5.91 Reliability and Availabili ty 5.67 5.66 Latency Client Service Pers onnel 5.9 5.88 Eas e-of-Use 5.73 5.85 5.41 5.39 Handling of New Versions/Releases Breadth of Broker Al gorithms 5.92 5.5 5.59 5.55 Timeliness of Updates for Broker Changes FIX Capabiliti es 5.66 5.74 5.78 Breadth of Asset Class Coverage 5.63 5.65 Breadth of Direc t Connec tions to Venues 5.42 5.38 Product D evelopment 5.7 5.6 Eas e of Integration to Internal Sys tems 5.42 5.46 Overall Cost of Operation 0.00 1.0 0 2.00 3.00 20 18 76 // TheTrade // Autumn 2018 5.95 20 17 4.0 0 5.00 6.0 0 7.00