In the latest episode of StreetsTalksTo we are joined by James Goater (Founder and CEO) and Sarah Timms (Co-founder and CPTO) of InTick. The discussion centers on InTick's innovative solution for the listed derivatives block trading market, which is still characterised by highly manual, complex, and opaque processes. InTick's mission is to bring automation, efficiency, and transparency to listed derivatives block trading , unlocking new trading opportunities and improving performance for buy-side, sell-side, and exchanges.
Key Points discussed in this episode:
Addressing a Manual and Complex Market: Listed derivatives block trading remains one of the last areas of financial market trading where manual processes lead to inefficiencies, errors, and missed trading opportunities. The complexity and nuances of different exchanges and traded contracts across fixed income, commodities and equities) has historically made automation difficult.
Benefits of Electronification: We discuss the significant advantages of moving to a centralised electronic platform that offers access to liquidity and automation that supports faster and more certain execution, improves trading risks and reconciliation, and enables better transactional cost analysis.The InTick Solution and its Impact: We learn how InTick provides an all-to-all network for listed derivatives block trading, allowing any client to automatically match with any other across its platform. This removes the need for manual communication and negotiation, making the process faster, more accurate, and more efficient to source market interest. It also aims to increase overall listed derivatives block trading activities by making it cheaper and easier to transact block sizes
The Founders' Expertise and Vision: We cover how the combined expertise of the InTick team is directly suited for tackling the complexities of block trading.
Strategic Roadmap and Future Growth: InTick's development is driven by extensive research into customer pain points. We discuss how they are focusing on delivering a highly usable and incrementally better product that has momentum and support from all sides of the market to redefine the future of block trading in listed derivatives
