Whether your clients are trading on exchanges or through OTC desks, capital efficiency is essential. The need for prefunding accounts across multiple venues ties up valuable liquidity and adds operational friction. BridgePort’s middleware eliminates this inefficiency by enabling real-time capital allocation and deallocation across venues, including OTC trading. Prime brokers can securely manage client assets through custodians while maintaining flexibility in capital deployment, whether the trade occurs on-exchange or OTC.

Prime brokers must navigate multiple venues and counterparties, from centralized exchanges to OTC trading platforms. BridgePort’s agnostic middleware seamlessly integrates across all these environments, providing a single, unified infrastructure for capital allocation, collateral management, and trade settlement. Whether the trade is conducted OTC or on an exchange, BridgePort ensures seamless post-trade workflows that simplify operational processes and reduce the need for complex, bespoke integrations.

OTC trading can expose prime brokers to increased counterparty risk due to its bilateral nature. BridgePort mitigates this risk by facilitating secure, off-exchange settlements, ensuring that assets remain with trusted custodians. This reduces the risk of counterparty default while providing greater control over post-trade operations. For on-exchange trades, BridgePort streamlines settlement by connecting prime brokers to exchanges and custodians, enabling secure and efficient trade completion.

Prime brokers often provide critical liquidity and credit services, particularly in OTC markets where liquidity can be more fragmented. By integrating BridgePort, prime brokers can continue to offer these services while benefiting from the capital efficiency that our middleware enables. For both OTC and on-exchange trading, BridgePort complements these liquidity services by streamlining capital deployment and reducing the operational complexity of managing trades across multiple venues.

As institutional demand for both OTC and on-exchange trading grows, prime brokers need scalable solutions to support increased volumes and new asset classes. BridgePort’s middleware infrastructure scales seamlessly to meet these demands, ensuring that prime brokers can expand their services across both trading environments without disruptive infrastructure changes. Whether you’re managing increased OTC trading volumes, expanding exchange connections, or integrating real-world assets, BridgePort’s infrastructure grows with your business.