TAG Forms Joint Technology Venture with Bon Trade Solutions

NEW YORK--()--TAG, a pioneering global provider of independent execution quality and transaction cost analysis metrics for the buy-side, sell-side and exchange community, today announced a joint venture with Bon Trade Solutions, a leading provider of risk managed electronic trading solutions and market center connectivity.

The joint venture will provide a full suite of pre and post trade solutions, connectivity and risk management tools and a wide selection of trade analytics measuring order handling, routing and execution quality.

Launched in 2001, Bon Trade Solutions offers low-latency direct market access and execution management system solutions, risk managed FIX connectivity to more than 50 destinations, powerful middleware tools, and sophisticated compliance and surveillance reporting tools. Since its inception in 1996, TAG has developed innovative, powerful and fully customizable execution quality analysis and peer-ranking reporting tools for the world’s leading financial services firms.

“We’re delighted to be working with TAG, the market leader in execution quality analysis, to offer a complete solution for firms trading in today’s market,” said John Paul DeVito, Director of Sales, at Bon Trade Solutions. “Given the coming increased regulatory oversight over how firms interact in the market, our trade execution and surveillance tools are a natural fit for TAG’s best execution and trading compliance analysis reporting solutions.”

Added Roger Post, Executive Vice President at TAG: “We’re happy to have selected Bon Trade, a leading-edge financial technology provider for trading firms, to complement our suite of execution quality analysis solutions. Leveraging partnerships like this one reaffirms our commitment to provide robust analysis solutions as an integrated service for firms leveraging sophisticated technology to execute their orders.”

About Bon Trade Solutions (www.bon-trade.com):

Bon Trade Solutions is a leading provider of risk managed electronic trading solutions and market center connectivity. Our proven systems are designed to handle the high message demands of the today’s market. Bon Trade products are built on our low latency 64 Bit FIX Core. Components include sophisticated Risk Managed FIX engines, over 50 Destination Handlers, powerful Middleware tools, Compliance reporting tools and two DMA/ EMS platforms. We have all the parts necessary to meet today's electronic trading requirements. Our components can be seamlessly integrated into your firm's current infrastructure for enhanced productivity, FIX Order Management and Risk Management.

About Transaction Auditing Group (www.tagaudit.com):

TAG is the pioneering provider of independent execution quality and transaction cost analysis for the buy-side, sell-side and exchange community. Founded in 1996, TAG quickly set the industry standard with its seminal TAG Report, broadly considered to be the original industry benchmark for measuring trade performance. Since its inception, TAG has developed innovative and powerful customer-based execution analysis reporting tools built on a pure and direct-feed data universe that renders fully customizable and easy to read performance measurements that go beyond standard benchmarks to identify strategy-specific performance and where improvements can be made. Providing analytics built on the proprietary TAG IQ Engine, TAG enables traders, exchanges and alternative markets to take control of trading costs, best execution, market fragmentation, and regulatory obligation in an increasingly complex global marketplace.

Contacts

Bon Trade Solutions
John Paul DeVito, 973-429-3737
Director of Sales
jpd@bontrade.net
or
Transaction Auditing Group
Katlin Richards, +1-646-375-1557
Associate Director, Communications
krichards@tagaudit.com
or
Spotlight Financial Marketing
Marc Weinstein, +1-212-521-5902
marc.weinstein@spotlightfm.com

Release Summary

TAG and Bon Trade form Joint Venture to better assist clients with their pre and post trade analysis.

Contacts

Bon Trade Solutions
John Paul DeVito, 973-429-3737
Director of Sales
jpd@bontrade.net
or
Transaction Auditing Group
Katlin Richards, +1-646-375-1557
Associate Director, Communications
krichards@tagaudit.com
or
Spotlight Financial Marketing
Marc Weinstein, +1-212-521-5902
marc.weinstein@spotlightfm.com