ATG Distributes Algos in Latin America via SS&C

Latin American buyside traders are about to get algorithmic trading strategies to help them tap alpha in the Americas.

Americas Trading Group (ATG), a Brazilian-based low-touch broker and technology provider, is now offering its Latin clients algos via SS&C Technologies. The algos can be accessed via SS&C’s order management system and the FIXLink systems.

ATG helps cleints source liquidity via 35 local sponsoring brokers across Latin America.

Leveraging expertise built from a unique understanding of those markets, ATG’s suite of multi-asset algos are optimized for local market execution.

“We partnered with SS&C as an opportunity to provide our clients access to MarketTrader’s expanding user base and to join SS&C’s FIXLink trading community,” said Francisco Gurgel, Partner and Chief Business Officer, Americas Trading Group. “As the importance of cross-border trading continues to grow, working with SS&C gives us an opportunity to help our clients reach new customers and, at the same time, provide SS&C’s clients with state-of-the-art trading access to Latin America.”

SS&C MarketTrader is a comprehensive and cost-effective solution for the order and execution management needs of broker-dealers.

FIXLink offers electronic routing of multi-asset class order flow between 260 institutional investors and 365 execution destination participants globally.