LiquidityConnect™ is a highly configurable trading-connectivity platform with comprehensive connectors to various liquidity sources. LiquidityConnect enables users to seamlessly connect the smartTrade Liquidity Management System to multiple sources who can have different formats and network protocols. LiquidityConnect's core engine has been written using a wide range of Enterprise Integration Patterns and has been coupled with the flexibility of the Spring framework. New connectors are deployed as self-describing plug-ins independent from the others so that it natively supports FIX, FIX/FAST and bespoke protocols. Embedded into LiquidityConnect is QuickFix/J as a packaged comprehensive FIX solution.

• LiquidityConnect can be used for connectivity in any asset class.
• LiquidityConnect comes natively with QuickFix/J and supports FIX/FAST protocol.
• LiquidityConnect is 'state-aware' meaning that LiquidityConnect knows if a venue has gone down, or data is being throttled.

LiquidityConnect&trade, one of the five pillars of the smartTrade LMS, can run as a standalone application or be used in coordination with LiquidityCrosser™, LiquidityOrchestrator™, LiquidityAggregator™ and LiquidityDistributor™ as a complete Liquidity Management System (LMS) to create an infinite combination of aggregation, crossing,smart order routing and distribution matrices that enables the execution process to be closely ingrained with the flow rather than reactionary to events.

"smartTrade has seen real spikes in e-trading volume in recent months on a number of platforms. Robust scalability is a big issue, which is why clients are offered dynamic load balancing across virtualized servers to be able to focus resources where they are needed."

David Vincent, smartTrade CTO