Moment enables brokerages, robo-advisors, and advisory platforms to quickly deploy institutional-grade fixed-income solutions to their users. Moment's all-in-one offering provides trading platforms with all the necessary tools to deliver a best-in-class fixed income solution:
Comprehensive Market & Reference Data
Moment offers historical and real-time reference and pricing data for 1.5M+ fixed income securities, covering treasuries, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, certificates of deposit, ABS, MBS, and UITs.
Risk Management & Real-Time Monitoring
Moment's Risk Management System and Trade Blotter allow platforms to create “risk groups” with custom risk controls and real-time monitoring, track individual orders and executions, and create/remove trading halts.
Smart Order Routing & Best Execution
Moment optimizes execution across every fixed income trading venue. Through Moment’s Orders API, platforms can abstract away the complexities of fixed income execution with automated order routing.
Automated Portfolio Construction
Moment’s Strategy API constructs fixed income portfolios to meet any objective — whether it’s a treasury ladder for a user with extra cash or a municipal custom indexing strategy for a HNW client.
Moment’s suite of simple APIs enables advisory platforms to rapidly deliver fixed income solutions to their users. Moment stands between the platform, the trading venue, and the platform’s custodian (if applicable), abstracting away the unique complexities of fixed income execution; Moment exposes simple REST and Websocket APIs to customers, allowing them to submit limit orders for fixed income securities and receive continuous updates on their active orders. Moment also works closely with self-clearing platforms to develop the necessary infrastructure for clearing and reporting fixed income trades.
Moment provides connectivity to every major US fixed income trading venue, enabling Moment’s Smart Order Router to deliver significant price improvement to users by optimizing execution across every trading venue and trading protocol (e.g. CLOB, RFQ). Moment’s team has decades of experience building institutional-quality fixed income trading technology, having led fixed income trading, technology, and quantitative research teams at Citadel Securities, Virtu Financial, Robinhood Markets, Tradeweb Markets, and the Chicago Trading Company.
<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" width="40px" /> The SEC has recently increased its focus on ensuring best execution in fixed income. By providing connectivity to every major trading venue, Moment enables its partners to ensure every trade is executed against the best available market.
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Moment is pioneering fractional fixed income. Bonds are typically in denominations of $1,000, but Moment will enable retail investors to invest in fixed income with as little as ****$25. Moment provides fractionalization by acting as a principal — upon receiving a fractional order, Moment executes a full-quantity order with the street, allocates a fractional quantity to the user’s account, and holds the residual quantity as inventory. Moment also intends to leverage its principal trading authority to improve execution quality and speed, expanding the universe of securities for which partner platforms can offer real-time execution.
Moment is bringing custom indexing to fixed income. Using Moment’s Strategy API, users can create personalized, tax efficient fixed income portfolios with predictable cash flows and precise factor tilts. With custom indexing, clients can construct portfolios that offer: