Unlocking Liquidity for Listed Derivatives is the Target of InTick

InTick, a groundbreaking fintech company, has made significant strides in the futures market with its innovative platform designed to automate and electronify the block trading process. The platform, which was recently selected for the Investment Association (IA) Engine Innovator Programme, is set to accelerate InTick's growth and deliver a solution to a long-standing market problem.

James Goater, InTick's CEO, emphasised the platform's ability to empower trading participants with actionable liquidity insights. The platform supports all-to-all trading and request-for-quote (RFQ) price discovery, providing a centralised, transparent pool of liquidity for buy-side firms. This approach improves liquidity discovery, streamlines workflow efficiency, and reduces cost and complexity, enhancing capital efficiency and market transparency for buy-side trading.

Stephen Bruel, from Crisil Coalition Greenwich, highlighted the exchange-traded derivatives workflow's persistent inefficiencies due to the ecosystem of market participants and the number of handoffs between them. InTick's platform addresses these issues by aggregating liquidity by displaying a transparent order book of trading intentions from market participants, supporting both all-to-all trading and RFQ workflows in fully automated front-to-back listed exchange block trading.

The IA Engine Innovator Programme, an accelerator programme that connects fintechs with the fund management community, welcomed InTick into its latest cohort in March. Gillian Painter, director of Engine at the Investment Association, expressed her excitement about the programme's latest Innovator and Advanced Access cohorts, stating that they highlight the extensive value new technologies can bring to the investment management industry. During the twelve-month programme, cohort members receive support and mentoring from the Engine Advisory Panel, a group of experts from across the investment management industry, as well as opportunities to showcase solutions at industry events.

Sarah Timms, co-founder and chief product officer at InTick, acknowledged the manual and time-consuming nature of trading blocks in listed derivatives. InTick's platform addresses this issue by displaying a transparent order book of intentions to trade from market participants. Once intentions to trade have been matched, messages are sent to the executing brokers of both counterparties.

InTick went live in June during the ICE Gilt and Eurex fixed income futures rolls, with a tier one investment bank serving as the first execution broker on both rolls. Moving forward, InTick aims to scale the technology to cater for as many use cases as possible, focusing on solving the most pertinent problems and daily pain points to ensure adoption.

Parker, a futures market expert, believes there is a genuine innovation coming through in a space that doesn't get that very often. He emphasised that technology innovation in the futures market has been quite limited over the past few decades. Stephen Bruel echoed this sentiment, stating that technologies that enable new processes and new ways of identifying and mitigating costs will help the futures industry thrive.

InTick's innovative platform is poised to revolutionise the futures market, offering a streamlined, efficient, and cost-effective solution to longstanding pain points in the industry. With its selection for the IA Engine Innovator Programme, InTick is well-positioned to accelerate its growth and deliver its innovative solution to a wider audience.

InTick's platform, designed for the futures market, empowers trading participants with actionable liquidity insights, focusing on all-to-all trading and request-for-quote (RFQ) price discovery to improve liquidity discovery and streamline workflow efficiency.
The persistent inefficiencies in the exchange-traded derivatives workflow are addressed by InTick's platform, which aggregates liquidity by displaying a transparent order book of trading intentions from market participants, supporting both all-to-all trading and RFQ workflows in fully automated front-to-back listed exchange block trading.
The Investment Association (IA) Engine Innovator Programme, an accelerator programme connecting fintechs with the fund management community, has welcomed InTick into its latest cohort, providing support, mentoring, and opportunities to showcase solutions at industry events during a twelve-month programme.
InTick aims to scale its technology to cater for various use cases, focusing on solving the most pertinent problems and daily pain points in the futures market to ensure widespread adoption.
Experts in the futures market, such as Parker and Stephen Bruel, believe that InTick's innovative platform represents a genuine innovation in a space that doesn't see such innovation often, with technology advancements in the futures market being quite limited over the past few decades.