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Shares

Overview

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.

Truly flexible

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.

Completely Connected

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.

Market Leading Instrument Support

Shares™ provides broad instrument support including all CHESS-settled instruments, foreign equities, Term Deposits, Bonds, Bank Bills and other cash products.

Supporting the growth of your Business and ensuring you are always Operating

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 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.

Features/Benefits

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

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