Our Products
For too long, equity broker-dealers’ businesses have been hampered by stale technology, indifferent solution providers and a lack of anything genuinely new.
We created Valstro to change all that, and from day 1 we were focused on building something entirely new – any existing foundation would be based on aging technology and tailored to an industry that has since radically transformed.
Key Features
User Experience
The Valstro UX is tailored to the unique needs of a trading team, with experiences tailored to key Sales and Trading roles. But because no two brokers are alike, the Valstro desktop is modular and configurable, letting brokers modify their trading software to suit their business, rather than the other way around.
Collaborative Workflows
Communication and collaboration are essential to our broker clients’ business, even more so with the increase in remote work. Valstro’s purpose-built workflows allow a trading team to collaborate effectively from across the room or across the globe, and automated interactions with Operations, Finance and Compliance teams remove friction and improve brokers’ customer service models.
Performance and Resiliency
We know that brokers succeed by offering their customers consistent, high-performance order execution even – and especially - during spikes in market volume. The Valstro platform employs a high-performance, event-driven internal architecture along with scalable, resilient cloud computing technologies to ensure smooth trading operations, even at peak times.
Risk and Compliance
Broker dealers in the US and elsewhere operate under a complex set of market regulations and must also implement robust internal risk controls. The Valstro platform offers comprehensive, out-of-the-box compliance with all applicable regulations and provides powerful interfaces and reporting tools to support internal risk management needs.
Buy-Side Connectivity
The Valstro platform gives brokers a vast array of options to connect to buy-side customers, whether through networks, or point-to-point. Our service is engineered to allow new connections to be built and conformance-tested quickly, and open enough to allow for custom link configurations.
Data Security and Visibility
The Valstro platform is engineered for maximum information security. Individual Valstro customer platforms are rigorously siloed to avoid data leakage, and the Valstro platform offers brokers simple, effective tools to control visibility by linking users and teams to specific flows and functions.
Market Access
Valstro offers brokers a wide array of options for executing orders. From direct, high-performance connections to exchanges and other fast markets, to brokers for both care and algorithmic order execution, we provide brokers with a complete set of tools.
The Valstro Product team is commited to the successful implementation of investment products.
Technology
The Valstro Engineering team is leveraging modern coding tools, secure cloud infrastructures, and propulsive, agile-based development methodology.
Performant
By utilizing modern container-based development in conjunction with Kubernetes-based deployment, the Valstro platform can be both performant and infinitely scalable, allowing vast numbers of transactions to be processed.
Secure
The Valstro Service features a federated identity stack with fine-grained permissions & entitlement controls, with robust self-service features for admin & support users. As a result, we can integrate with existing corporate SSO infrastructure, delivering a more secure environment with lower TCO and less administrative overhead for clients.
Resilient
By building for the cloud from the ground up, the Service takes advantage of multiple regions and availability zones to provide unprecedented levels of resilience. This infrastructure resilience is backed by an event-driven micro-services architecture that allows for rapid recovery and self-healing of critical system processes.
Flexible and Extensible
Using an industry-standard messaging layer, Apache Kafka, it is a simple task to add new modules to the application stack and have them listen to and create events. This is then coupled with open APIs that facilitate easy integration with customer systems.
User Focused
Enterprise financial technology is plagued with clunky, old-fashioned user experiences. At Valstro, we have focused on the user experience from day 1 to create a modern reactive application that users will find intuitive and enjoyable to interact with.
Rapidly Deployable
The Service is Engineered to support rapid implementation with 100% infrastructure as code allowing increased user control and flexibility. Integration with customer systems is achieved through modern, open API frameworks for both data in and data out operations