UNX provides institutional clients with unobstructed access to a wide breadth of counterparty broker-dealers through the Catalyst Portal or directly via FIX. Not only does UNX provide access to broker-dealers as electronic trading destinations, UNX also aggregates a community of broker-dealers that are given access and control in what proprietary products and services they can present to their institutional clients. With UNX’s open, modular framework, large and small broker-dealers are empowered to extend the full range of their products and services to institutional clients in the most ideal and creative way through the Catalyst Portal.
More than a FIX Network that just connects institutional clients to their broker-dealers, the UNX Network coupled with the UNX SDK allows broker-dealers to leverage technology that allows for speedy delivery of enhancements and new products and services. Through UNX, broker-dealers can get their creative ideas rapidly to market, thus giving them and their institutional clients a competitive edge.