Execution Services

Buy-Side Trading Solutions

 

Our Buy-Side Trading Solutions were built on the foundation of xBK, a BNY Mellon trading group who services our internal investment management companies. 

 

We're continually investing in technology, analytics and reporting, and have even established a dedicated data science team in order to deliver a modern and scalable infrastructure that allows us to enhance execution outcomes through automation, innovation and a systematic worklflow.

 

Our team has significant expertise in supporting domestic and global trading across Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives and Foreign Exchange. We understand the needs of investment managers and the complexity of buy-side trading workflows.

 

Leading with expertise and scale, trading an average $1 Trillion of notional volume annually across 150 investment strategies – that’s Buy-Side Trading Solutions at BNY Mellon.

Why consider
Buy-Side Trading?

The asset management industry is at a critical inflection point as it continues to address:

  • Fee pressures
  • Higher operating costs
  • Increased trading complexity
  • Heightened regulatory requirements

Increasingly, we are seeing larger and more sophisticated buy-side firms considering how they can:

  • Optimize trading
  • Gain efficiencies and cost savings
  • Scale and expand into new investment strategies

 

COST SAVINGS

Evolving markets, electronification and regulatory overhead have led to increased cost to run an internal trading desk. These costs are more challenging to manage in a business cycle marked by fee pressures and margin compression.

MARKET ACCESS

Standing up new investment products or expanding to new geographies requires sustained and incremental investment in people, systems and data.

ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION

Clients looking to transform their operating model and plan to grow through acquisitions are increasingly looking to simplify their technology footprint without having to maintain a complex trading infrastructure.

FOCUS ON CORE COMPETENCIES

Investment managers can dedicate their resources and investment to their core capabilities of research or asset allocation and not the implementation of those ideas.

SELL-SIDE ACCESS

Brokers have increasingly concentrated their focus on their largest and most profitable clients, leaving small to mid-sized managers squeezed for resources and support. Buy-Side Trading Solutions allows these managers to benefit from economies of scale and improve access to liquidity, allocations and pricing. 


A flexible solution

 

Outsourced trading does not have to be a one-sized fits all approach, it can be customized to meet your needs.

  • Partial Outsourcing - We supplement your trading desk’s existing capabilities with targeted expertise in specific asset classes, time zones or regions as an efficient way to solve for coverage gaps or expedite new market entry.
  • Full Outsourcing - We assume the responsibilities of your trading desk, representing you in the market and executing trades on your behalf. This model provides significant opportunities for efficiencies and savings.

Capabilities

 

BNY Mellon is uniquely positioned to compete in the outsourced trading space.

 

  • Pre-trade
    • Liquidity estimates
    • Exposure assessment
    • Cost estimates
    • Execution strategy
  • Execution
    • Counterparty selection
    • Trade costs vs. benchmarks
    • Real time monitoring
  • Post Trade
    • Best execution
    • Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)
    • Commission reporting

  • End-to-end FIX message logs
  • Continuous blotter snaps
  • Comprehensive trade and quote datasheet
  • Multi-asset TCA

  • Proprietary analytics platform
  • Transactional market data sets
  • Fine tuning of execution results
  • Validation of trading strategy
  • Data-enhanced strategic decision making

  • Trade Data
    • Daily activity
    • End-of-day trade summary
    • Weekly outlier and impactful trades

 

  • Best Execution Oversight
    • Fund board reporting
    •  Regulatory reporting
    • Trade practices committee
    • Compliance monitoring

 

  •   Performance and Analytics
    •   Quarterly TCA analysis and summary
    •   Market trends
    •   Broker commission insights
    •   Concentration analysis
    •   Sector insights

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