StudioAir™ is an advanced Trading Front End application that enables banks to build and customize their front ends for both trading and client facing applications. StudioAir is cross-asset, easy to customize, lightweight, and will enable organizations to easily evolve their front ends as the markets change. StudioAir has been developed using the Microsoft Silverlight Development Platform.

StudioAir has been integrated into the 5 Pillars of the smartTrade LiquidityManagement Software: LiquidityConnect™, LiquidityAggregator™, LiquidityCrosser™, LiquidityOrchestrator™ and LiquidityDistributor™. StudioAir can easily take the functionality (i.e. aggregation, smart order routing etc.) of the components to the front end depending upon the needs of each organization. StudioAir does not hard code the functionality into the front end; rather the front end is the representation of the smartTrade Technologies components. In using this approach, StudioAir can be customized to each organization is a short time period and can evolve as the market changes.

Features of StudioAir include:

• Designed using Microsoft Silverlight
• Light deployment in browser mode
• Lightweight Installation in desktop
• Shared code between desktop / browser based application
• Full portability and compatibility based on the Silverlight virtual machine
• Customizable skin across asset classes (FX/ Equities/ Fixed Income, etc) and by client
• Deployments can show only the desired functionalities based on customer’s requirements
• Can be used for Trading Fronts or Client-facing applications
• Out of the box functionality includes: Market Data Views, Order Management, RFQ Management, and a series of market representative smart order routing functons (i.e. VWAP, pegged, cross, dynamic etc.) that can be tailored and tested for quick time to market