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In modern brokerage, execution quality and client experience are what set firms apart. Buy-side clients demand transparency into order routing and evidence of best execution. Regulatory requirements continue to evolve. Technology performance underpins all of this  —and you cannot optimise what you do not understand.

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The Challenge

Brokers must optimise execution performance whilst controlling costs across equities, options, derivatives, FX and fixed income. Yet many firms only see outcomes — delayed acks, slippage, client complaints — without understanding what caused them.

Execution operations teams struggle to:

Connect outcomes to root causes

Link technology behaviour directly to execution performance and customer experience.

Investigate issues quickly

Reduce the time and resources spent troubleshooting across multiple teams.

Explain routing decisions

Show where orders were routed, why, and the resulting performance.

Prove best execution

Demonstrate compliance with accurate, auditable data

Respond to regulatory enquiries

Extract and deliver required information promptly

Legacy monitoring at best shows what happened, not why. Without full visibility across the trading stack, teams remain firefighting rather than optimising.

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The Solution

Built for the most demanding trading environments, xMetrics delivers advanced trade flow analytics and end-to-end observability. Every order and market data tick is measured and correlated across every infrastructure hop.

User-defined logic at source

Real-time field transformations and custom metrics running directly in the instrumentation path, shaping data as it is created.

True multi-hop correlation

Correlate across FIX, proprietary and native exchange protocols even when formats change mid-flow.

Technology-to-execution mapping

Infrastructure behaviour linked directly to business outcomes.

Client-level impact analysis

Instant identification of which clients are affected, enabling proactive coverage.

Full trade lifecycle reconstruction

Complete end-to-end visibility of every order and market data tick for best execution analysis and regulatory enquiries

What You Gain

Client Coverage

  • Awareness of affected clients before they escalate
  • Faster query resolution
  • Observability transformed into proactive engagement

Performance 
and Speed

  • Real-time connection health monitoring
  • Latency pinpointed across every hop
  • Optimised tick-to-order and gateway response times
  • Improved data feed quality
  • Reduced outages and performance incidents
  • Faster troubleshooting and resolution
  • Service providers held to their SLAs with measurable evidence

Compliance and Oversight

  • Full transparency on client execution outcomes
  • Reduced regulatory risk through trusted compliance data
  • Complete order lifecycle tracking for best execution and regulatory enquiries

Technology Spend

  • Clarity on which infrastructure investments actually improve execution
  • Before-and-after performance data to track ROI
  • Spend prioritised against real bottlenecks, not guesswork
  • Vendors held to account with clear, measurable evidence

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