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ADS Securities
November 2014
Mission Statement
“At ADS Securities we are building an ambitious and passionate Financial Services
business. It is a place of opportunities where exceptional results are achieved by dynamic
professionals who are empowered to build their own and the company’s future.
“It is a firm which is proud of its heritage, its multi-cultural positioning and its ability to
offer global trading and investments. We carefully select our markets and clients, and aim
to provide very high quality, honest, responsible and reliable services.
“We invest in change, our people and our industry. We want to be different and to
challenge the status quo and we invite you to be part of our journey.”
I. Introduction
II. Overview
III. Key Operating Milestones
IV. Financial Services
V. Management
VI. Contacts
Message from the
Chairman
Philippe Ghanem
Vice-Chairman and Executive Managing Director
II – Overview
Introduction
ADS Securities is an Abu Dhabi based international financial services company, dedicated
to providing the highest quality investment opportunities for institutional, private and
retail clients.
Regulated in three jurisdictions it offers unique wealth management and trading services
delivered by market experts. The company has made a significant investment into
proprietary multi-asset trading technology which is central to its ability to access liquidity
and assets. ADS Securities business areas include:
• Trading/ Brokerage – technology and service led multi-asset trading
• Optim – a start to finish institutional forex transactional service
• Prime – FX, CFDs and bullion trading services for private clients
• Global Markets – cross-asset investment finance and advisory services
• Investment Banking – global investment opportunities
• Wealth Management – a discreet investment management team
• Asset Management – tactical and strategic asset allocation
Unique Trading
ADS Securities works with some of the world’s leading financial organisations, and is
focused on delivering the highest levels of client support through the development of
market leading technology and partnerships.
JV’s, IB partnerships and business agreements have been developed in key market areas.
Prime Brokers
• BNP Paribas
• CITI
Technology Partners
• Lusis
• MetaQuotes
• Corvil
International
Operations
ADS Securities is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, with regional offices
providing local market access:
• ADS Securities LLC – regulated by the Central Bank of the UAE
• ADS Securities Hong Kong Limited – regulated by the SFC
• ADS Securities Singapore Pte – regional customer support office
• ADS Securities London Limited – a wholly owned subsidiary of ADS Holding LLC,
regulated by the FCA
ADS Securities has shown consistent growth and development and has an aggressive
plan of product, service and market expansion.
ADS Securities has been awarded the prestigious BSI ISO/IEC 27001
information security certification, for the management of information security,
including client credit card data.
IV – Financial Services
Prime
Optim is a high quality full service institutional FX service, based on market leading
proprietary technology accessing primary and secondary market liquidity. Optim delivers:
• Technology
• Liquidity
• Price
• Service
Optim can be traded via FIX/ API, GUI or mobile.
• OREX Optim – ADS Securities’ proprietary full service platform
• OREX Direct – FIX solutions for all applications across all platforms
• OREX Match – a system for matching liquidity solutions to clients’ needs
ADS Securities can create unique liquidity pools tailored to individual clients supporting high
frequency trading, big tickets, hedging strategies and day-to-day desk trading. The team
works with a range of banks, hedge funds, fund managers and corporates.
White label services including deep white labeling of all OREX technology are also available.
Global Markets
ADS Securities’ Wealth Management team redefines the way that investment
services are provided. The team does not have the historical limitations of banks or
the product restrictions associated with international investment firms: it takes the
best parts of both to provide high quality bespoke wealth management.
The Wealth Management team offers:
• A discreet and private portfolio management
• Access to a 24/5 Abu Dhabi investment desk trading all global markets products
• Proprietary reporting
Technology
OREX Optim from ADS Securities is a new generation multi-asset trading platform. It is
proprietary, scalable and available as a white label.
• Multi-Asset functionality
• Platform architecture designed from conception to handle multi-assets
• Risk management and margin calculated across asset
• Low latency, fast pricing infrastructure
• Robust state-of-the art core pricing engine
• Sophisticated liquidity aggregation and management
• High fill ratios with low rejection rates
• Real-time system latency monitoring by Corvil
• Smart order routing
• Cascading algorithms
• Bank, non-bank and unique regional liquidity
• Admin station and client portal
• GUI, tablet and mobile solutions
Products
ADS Securities specialises in multi-asset trading. From the Global Markets team’s highly
regarded fixed income desk through to the forex teams offering FX spot, forwards and swaps,
on a growing list of 60 currency pairs. The full range of forex tradable products includes:
Online:
• FX Spot
• CFDs
• Precious Metals Spot (Gold,
Silver, Platinum, Palladium)
Planned online:
• NDFs
• Futures
• Forwards
Offline:
• OTC Options on FX and
Precious Metals The OREX Optim
Multi-Asset platform
• Forwards
• Deliverable FX
Global Markets:
• Full range of asset classes
Market Analysis
Board
Chairman – Mahmood Ebraheem Al Mahmood
Vice-Chairman and Executive Managing Director – Philippe Ghanem
Member – Vijay Singh