Vitaliy Kozak’s Post

With our 20th dealer joining the loan trading platform last week, we now estimate our sell-side market coverage to be 90%.  Buyside customers who choose to trade on Octaura can send direct inquires to any of the 20 dealers they are enabled with or a Market List to all of them at the same time – enjoying the benefits of efficiency, analytics and STP. More than 120 Loan buyside customers are live on Octaura. And while there’s still work to do to get every single dealer in the Loan market onboarded, these results are promising and underscores the market is ready for change. #ConnectToBetter #ConnectToOctaura

Today, we announced that Octaura’s integration with Allvue Systems is now live. This brings our combined customers significant workflow efficiencies. This announcement could not come at a better time after last week’s launch of Octaura’s new protocol, Market Lists. Some Market Lists can be 200–500-line items. When I was a trader, it would take me many hours to book that many trades and then even longer to correct errors and mismatches over the next several days. Clients that connect their Order Management System to Octaura don’t have to do that manual process anymore and instead can focus on actual trading! We’ve observed that clients with connectivity have initially increased their trading volume on our platform by more than 200% as they start to enjoy the benefits automatic trade booking. I wish I had these tools back in my trading days 😊 Connect to a better trading workflow with Octaura + Allvue. #connecttobetter 

This week we introduced a new trading protocol – Market Lists on Octaura – a better way to execute a large list. Conducting the process around a large list manually, managing both sell and buyside participants can be extremely inefficient and time-consuming. With this new solution from Octaura, users from both sides of the market benefit from: -> Access to 18 on-platform and 17 off-platform dealers plus their enabled buy-side firms (120 firms and counting!) -> Speed and efficiency execution -> Straight through processing -> Comprehensive analytics And while we’ve only just launched, we have already seen three customers put through a combined notional of over $500mm receiving positive feedback from buy-side and sell-side participants alike! You can request to see a demo of Market Lists in action here: https://bit.ly/471pSCU

Many of you are following horrible events that are taking place in Ukraine. Ruined houses, schools, hospitals and most importantly lives. Observing from afar, it's clear that empathy and goodwill won't help the victims of war in a meaningful way. Your Part Foundation https://lnkd.in/eA9-Z5-e and I are hosting a charity gala on the 14th of November to help raise funds to support humanitarian aid for shelters and orphanages. For the event, David Borokhovich the founder of Your Part Foundation, will travel to Ukraine's frontline to help with relocation efforts and showcase the reality of the daily struggles of civilians living in the most dangerous areas of conflict. Please see below for more information:

I'll be at the LSTA's Annual Loan conference in New York on September 26 sharing demos of the latest electronic loan trading, data and analytics from Octaura - you can set up a meeting with the team below. I will also be attending a cocktail event on 25th of September, hosted by Allvue Systems and Octaura. Looking forward to seeing you there!

This week Octaura reached a new milestone – nearly 300 loans traded in a single day.   You can imagine the pain executing this many trades causes institutional buy and sellside customers who may be doing this manually:   Create, clean-up and send out Excel files Collect bids from multiple dealers via phone, e-mail or chat  Communicate feedback to bidders Execute trades and notify winners Send trade confirms Manually book and correct erroneous trades   Octaura’s List protocol addresses the pain points above and more. Whether you have a large list, a handful of odd-lots or are simply running late for your evening plans – Octaura is here to help!   #ItsTimeForOctaura

In June we have seen 2.2% of the loan market trade electronically on our platform - a true testament to buy and sell-side community who are adopting this new technology and the value of the platform we're building here at Octaura. #itstimeforoctaura

John S. Hintze. Howard Cohen and I talk about the latest in the #CLO and #Loan markets. Article here: https://lnkd.in/eWpbdRyx

Everyday we are working hard to provide viable solutions to our customers. It's great to get confirmation that we are on the right track.   Thank you team Octaura for making this happen!

Sometimes it feels like Octaura is not just an electronic trading venue for Loans but rather a solutions company taking your feedback and solving marketplace inefficiencies. We appreciate all your feedback, and we listen to it!   Our new release this week includes some exciting features including Octaura’s Loan Liquidity Scores, now available on the Institutional Only platform. Historically, traders and PMs would use dealer quote depth to estimate liquidity, but this has limitations. Octaura’s Liquidity Score uses sixteen inputs incorporating both live and historical market data. The scores update daily and are intended to help investment professionals tailor their execution strategies to get the best outcomes. Please see below for additional release notes: