One-stop solution

For prime brokers, covering trading, clearing, reporting and billing, without long-term contracts.

Powerful technology and advanced tools

Trade stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds and funds in more than 150 markets in 34 countries and support 27 currencies with our powerful trading technology and advanced trading tools.

Compliance

Pre-trade compliance, real-time market risk management and monitoring can help comprehensively measure risk exposure.

Low Cost

Reduce your investment costs – no order fees, no minimum threshold requirements, no technology, software, platform and reporting fees.

Best Execution, Improved Prices

Integrated with a range of advanced trading technologies, designed to help clients get the best execution and maximize price improvements while minimizing market impact.

CRM

Free customer relationship management tools help you manage your clients efficiently.

Multiple Regulatory

Support FATCA, MiFID II, AML, GDPR and other regulatory reporting services worldwide.

Promotion

Promote your services on the investor services market.

Customizable

White label and custom website building services.

Commission Markup

• Clients are charged a service fee per transaction unit by asset class, exchange and currency. The transaction unit depends on the unit AFG uses to calculate commissions, which can be per share, per contract or as a percentage of the transaction amount.

• Client fee schedules can be applied to individual accounts or saved as templates.

• Easily apply different fee schedules to multiple client accounts.

E-Billing

• Automatically submit client expense invoices.

• Set a maximum invoice amount or percentage cap.

• Provide advisor expense details to your clients to meet compliance requirements.

Interest markups and markdowns

• Lowers credit interest and raises debit interest for lenders and short sale proceeds. Markups and markdowns are expressed as a percentage and there are 8 fields to enter.

• A markup is charged to clients based on AFG's stock loan rate, entered as a floating or fixed percentage of the relevant rate. You can enter two types of markups and our system will apply the markup rate that results in the higher amount.

Caps and Limits

• Introducing Broker Client Markups may not exceed 15 times AFG's highest tiered fee rate and other external fees.

• The maximum tiered commission for US stocks is $0.0035 per share. The markup cap for US dollar-denominated bonds is set separately. US option markups may not exceed 10% of the transaction amount.

• Limits are subject to change and certain products may have additional restrictions.

Trading Platforms

Powerful, award-winning trading platforms and tools for managing client assets. Available on desktop, mobile, web and API.

Order Types and Algos

Over 100 order types – from limit orders to algorithmic trading complex orders – to help you achieve your full range of trading strategies.

API Solutions

Our proprietary API and FIX CTCI solutions allow institutions to build their own automated trading systems while taking advantage of our high-speed order routing and extensive market depth data.

Advanced Risk Management

Use real-time market risk management and monitoring to comprehensively assess risk exposure across multiple asset classes around the world and understand risk and reward.

Securities Lending

From trading day to settlement day, our securities lending solutions are always committed to providing customers with a deep inventory of shortable securities, transparent rates, global coverage and automated lending tools.

Advanced Trading Tools

Use our free advanced trading tools to identify market opportunities, analyze results, manage your account and make investment decisions.

Free Account Tools

Manage taxes and corporate actions, understand T+1 settlement and trade allocations, and view more tools and services available to clients.

Comprehensive Reporting Services

Our statements and reports cover real-time trade confirmations, margin information, transaction cost analysis, advanced portfolio analysis, tax optimization and more. We can also provide trade monitoring support if you need it.