Your Guide to Understanding Key Concepts and Terminology
22 October, 2026
What Is an Institutional Trading Platform?
An institutional trading platform is the software or electronic marketplace that professional investors, such as pension funds, asset managers, hedge funds, insurers and banks, use to trade. It helps them place very large orders without moving the price against themselves, trade for many accounts at once, follow strict rules and keep an exact record of […]
19 October, 2026
What Is AML Transaction Monitoring?
AML transaction monitoring is the ongoing review of customers’ transactions to spot activity that may be linked to money laundering or other financial crime. Banks, payment companies, brokers, crypto exchanges and other financial firms use it to compare what a customer actually does with what they would expect from that customer. Most of the time […]
15 October, 2026
Order Management System (OMS): How It Works in Trading
An order management system (OMS) is software that keeps track of trading orders from the moment someone decides to trade until the result reaches the accounts. It records what was requested, checks whether the order is allowed, sends it for execution and follows everything that happens to it afterward. Every order raises three questions, and […]