The Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) landscape is experiencing significant growth, with a 4.4% increase in asset management clients and a 12.6% increase in total assets under management (AUM) in 2023 alone. To take full advantage of this momentum, RIAs must accommodate the needs of increasingly sophisticated investors and scale their

By Kevin Samuel, Founder & CEO, LiquidityBook When we founded LiquidityBook, it was with a clear goal: to challenge the status quo in institutional trading technology. At the time, the industry was dominated by monolithic, inflexible legacy systems. Over the past two decades, our modular, cloud-native technology has offered a

The emergence of open banking. The rise of cloud computing. The widespread adoption of AI. Each of these pivotal 21st century developments has played a role in creating today’s intricately interconnected financial services ecosystem. When LiquidityBook was first founded in 2005, the industry transition away from mainframe-centric architectures and GUI-driven

By Jason Morris, President, LiquidityBook At the beginning of this year, I joined LiquidityBook as the firm’s new President, and I can honestly say the past few months have been some of the most exciting of my career. It’s not just the chance to take on new challenges and meet

his coming May, the US, Canada and Mexico will officially shorten their equity settlement cycle from T+2 to T+1. This transition may cause disruption in the short term, but will create market efficiencies over the long term: expected benefits will include reduced dependency on manual processes, mitigated counterparty risk and both greater liquidity and greater capital efficiency.

When it comes to the front office, broker-dealers have access to a vast array of trading tools built for speed, efficiency and flexibility. Why should post-trade processes be any different? At LiquidityBook, we’ve determined that there’s no good answer to that question. In recent years, the trade lifecycle has almost

No matter what sectors they trade in or what strategies they employ, buy-side firms must carry out an extensive set of complex day-to-day processes to effectively run their business. In a perfect world, technology would seamlessly support these processes – but historically, it has added as much complexity as it

Advanced trading systems aren’t just for market participants anymore. A growing swath of vendors serving these financial institutions are seeking to expand their offerings with adjacent capabilities, such as order generation and execution management. The business opportunity is there, but at what cost? What does it take to create such