GBST Shares™ is the most scalable and widely used middle and back-office equities system in Australia. Shares™ has a proven track record as a real-time, feature rich and reliable system which enables brokers to improve business efficiency and reduce transaction costs.
Shares™ is the only system in the market that is truly multi-market, multi-currency, multi-instrument and multi-entity.
All current business models in the Australian market, including retail brokers, institutional brokers, third party clearers and any combination of these models, are supported by Shares™ and flexible business rules allow you to customise Shares™ to fit your business model.
Shares™ also provides exception-based processing across all key processes leading to a lower per-transaction total cost of ownership.
Shares™ is connected to virtually every type of participant in the market, in real time. It is the only system with a multi-provider real-time Cash Management and Margin Lending interface. Shares™ also provides integration with ETC (Oasys and IRESS), Registries and our Derivatives and Margin Lending systems to enable streamlined and efficient processing.
Shares™ provides broad instrument support including all CHESS-settled instruments, foreign equities, Term Deposits, Bonds, Bank Bills and other cash products.
GBST continues to invest heavily in research and development to ensure that as transaction volumes increase Shares™ continues to provide scalable processing and greater efficiencies for the middle and back office. Currently a Shares™ system can process up to 1,000,000 trades per day.
Shares™ is a reliable and resilient system which is monitored and supported 24 hours by a team of skilled application and database engineers.
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GBST Margin Lending™ offers automated processing to facilitate client/loan management, loan valuation/gearing, scrip/cash settlement, margin call & risk management in real time. |
GBST DCA™ is a fully integrated, real time client accounting system for derivatives trading, improving business efficiency and reducing transaction costs. |
GBST Floats™ streamlines the Floats and Issues processes across your business delivering increased efficiencies and greater management during the bid, offer and allocations process. |
A brief example of the Shares™ features and benefits:
Shares™ Features |
Business Benefit |
Shares™ Advanced Trading |
Automates trading for institutional and overseas clients |
Shares™ Principal Trading |
Maximise profit and manages risk |
Shares™ Custody |
Streamlines custody business |
Shares™ Floats and Issues |
IPO management |
Shares™ Cash Management |
Efficient & automated cash settlement |
Shares™ 24 Hours |
Continuous trading |
Shares™ Clearing |
Multi-entity capability facilitates agency and third party clearing |
Shares™ Automation |
Provides workflow automation of the broker’s transactional processing. Event processing can be triggered based on time, internal events, external events, process completion events, or any combination. |
Shares™ ETC |
Real-Time IRESS & Oasys ETC allocation & confirmation processing enabling reduction in Bookings overhead and improved efficiency. |
Shares™ Market Interface |
Parallel multi-threaded interface to the ASX enabling scalable trade processing & booking |
Shares™ Settlement Interface |
Parallel multi-threaded interface to CHESS enabling scalable message processing |