For cross-asset desks running smaller teams. If you cover equities, ETFs and derivatives across global markets, serve discretionary, advisory and execution-only flow, and your constraint is breadth of coverage relative to team size, this is your group.

As providers extend their platforms across equities, ETFs, futures, options and digital assets, buy-side desks face a genuine choice: consolidate onto one multi-asset system or keep specialist stacks per asset class. The case for consolidation is a single workflow, unified connectivity and one vendor relationship. But firms that have tested cross-asset structures have found that platforms strong in equities often lack the execution depth and tooling that derivatives or fixed income desks need.