Introduction

BrokerTec is the leading electronic trading platform for the fixed income markets, providing innovative technology solutions across a wide range of products to customers in more than 50 countries around the world. BrokerTec delivers efficient, transparent, anonymous and orderly electronic fixed income trading opportunities for all market participants.

The BrokerTec offering includes trading solutions for many US and European fixed income products, including US Treasuries, European Government Bonds and European Repo.

BrokerTec facilitates both API (black box) and manual trading for institutions, banks and non-bank professional trading organisations.

Onix Solutions EBS BrokerTec Handler is a C++ library that provides access to BrokerTec Exchange trading functionality using Genium INET interface.

The key benefits of the OnixS directConnect C++ EBS BrokerTec Handler is:

Pre-tested - thus saving time and money in integration testing.
Supported - service level guarantee that the implementation is production strength, and will support current and future enhancements.
Book management, synchronization and recovery - more than just a market data decoder. Provides full book management with Order book depth, Individual subscription model allowing the selection of product groups - off loads the book management tasks to a specialized implementation.
Trade volume reporting that includes reporting of single, double leg and strategy trades for on-exchange as well as OTC transactions.
Low latency, high through-put, and low CPU load - designed for high-frequency and the fastest market data implementation
Easy-to-use and flexible API - designed for rapid integration within trading strategy architectures, with a common API style for multi-venue implementations.
Flexible logging - ability to analyze and diagnose issues and activity quickly
Included fast-start source code reference implementations with client and benchmarking samples - designed for rapid familiarization and to get up and running rapidly.

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Note

It is highly recommended to read the following BrokerTec documentation alongside reading this Guide:

Genium INET OMnet Message Reference Version: 2.0.0430

Note: It is highly recommended to review the source code of the Sample Projects from the distributive package alongside reading this Guide.

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