FAQs

Trading

ETS Connect Plus consolidates executed bond trades from the UK and EU into one verified feed. Traders can see real prices, not indicative quotes, to confirm fair value before executing.

Cross-market data reveals where genuine trading activity occurs, helping traders anticipate flow, manage inventory, and avoid illiquid instruments.

The feed connects via secure API or SFTP, providing real-time, normalised trade data directly to OMS or EMS platforms for smarter routing and execution.

Each record includes price, volume, timestamp, venue, ISIN/CUSIP (with appropriate end user license), and counterparty type, all validated and formatted consistently for direct use in analytics or trading systems. In addition, this data will be enriched with a series of incremental fields including sector, Seniority, COI, issuer roll up, ratings etc.

It provides full-market visibility, allowing traders to benchmark fills against verified trades, detect anomalies, and maintain compliance with MiFIR best-execution rules.

Risk & Compliance

It delivers a complete, timestamped record of executed trades across UK and EU markets, allowing firms to benchmark fills, evidence best execution, and meet MiFIR and FCA transparency requirements.

Verified, multi-market datasets enable realistic simulations of liquidity shocks and volatility, giving risk teams accurate inputs for regulatory and internal stress testing.

By unifying data from all venues, ETS Connect Plus provides real-time insight into trading volumes, price movements, and anomalies – supporting market surveillance and risk oversight.

It ensures consistency and completeness in post-trade data used for regulatory submissions, reducing reconciliation errors and strengthening audit trails.

Each trade record includes source and validation metadata, providing full traceability from venue to reporting, so compliance teams can rely on a transparent, auditable dataset.

Data & Analytics

Each trade passes extensive validation and normalisation checks before delivery, producing a single schema across UK and EU markets for clean, consistent analysis.

ETS Connect Plus supports multiple delivery options: a WebSocket API for real-time streaming, a REST API for a historical data file download, and a GUI for interactive access.

One consolidated dataset eliminates manual reconciliation and format inconsistencies, allowing data teams to focus on insight generation instead of data cleaning.

User/Technical FAQs

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