PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Common
Customer
Gateway
(CCG) The Common Customer Gateway (CCG) is an industry standard messaging interface for
global exchanges and execution venues, including the NYSE Euronext markets, offering
the ability to manage, monitor and analyze trading activity.
Through our robust technology, our exchange customers and partners are empowered to
continue to grow and innovate in their markets. Access to additional exchanges through CCG
Universal Gateway is ongoing as part of NYSE Technologies’ strategy to connect the world’s execution venues.

to Execution Venues Customer Challenges Solution Benefits

Worldwide
FAST FACTS
What is it?
NYSE Technologies’ Common Customer
Gateway (CCG) connects exchange
participants to the core matching engine,
and routes outbound orders to NYSE
Euronext markets and other venues and
alternative trading systems worldwide.
Who is it for?
Exchanges that want to offer their market
participants the ability to connect to their
matching systems, as well as value-added
functions like outbound routing and risk
management.
What does it provide?
CCG provides a single point of access for
brokers and their clients, with proven FIX
and binary messaging, a range of standard
risk controls and proven reliability.
As new execution venues emerge,
competition is becoming fierce as exchange
venues seek to provide the fastest access
to their markets.
Speed
Exchanges need to provide market
participants with fast, electronic
access to their matching engines.
Performance
High-performance connectivity solutions
involve a significant investment in terms of
expertise and cost, as requirements expand
to include order-routing to other liquidity
sources and alternative trading systems,
and links to risk management platforms.
Deployment
Clients increasingly require fast deployment
as they seek to take advantage of newly
identified market opportunities.
Monitoring
Exchanges need to be able to monitor
the state of the system from client
connectivity to system health. Years of
experience are used to create a solution
that is manageable.
Feature Addition
The core code implements a system
of frameworks that enables the creation
of new protocols and features without
compromising existing functionality.
CCG draws upon NYSE Technologies’
unrivalled experience in developing FIX
and binary connectivity solutions. Clients
benefit from NYSE Technologies’ expertise
in protocol translation, its world-class
quality assurance processes and its
technology roadmap for upgrading and
enhancing its GUIs and APIs.
Reliability
To ensure reliability, CCG persists messages
at different points of their transit to the
file system, making sure that messages
are automatically restored if a connection
fails. The persist files can also be used
in failover scenarios. CCG also includes
message validation, which checks incoming
messages for correct formatting and
whether the message meets the required
information. Exception handling can be
based either on the protocol conventions
or on custom rules.
Single Point of Entry
CCG handles both inbound and outbound
routing, ensuring orders are routed to the
correct trading engine, whatever the trading
platform. A Consolidated Configuration and
Monitoring function allows single access to
configure multiple gateways.
Risk Management
CCG provides extensive in-line risk checks
and complex aggregation of risk state.
It also can ‘Drop Copy’ duplicate exchange
executions to support risk management
functions, and allows risk managers to
monitor risk filters via a risk managers’ API.

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Common Customer
Gateway (CCG)

Integration with Other NYSE Technologies Gateways

CCG can be integrated with a range of gateway products from NYSE Technologies:
About NYSE Technologies
• Market Access Gateway: The client communicates with the Market Access Gateway
using a common specification and the gateway connects to the destination venue NYSE Technologies provides comprehensive
using the market’s own protocol. transaction, data and infrastructure services
and managed solutions for buy-side,
• Risk Management Gateway: Allows market members to offer risk management
sell-side and exchange communities
for Direct Market Access (DMA) clients as a facility of the exchange, and enables
that require next-generation performance
risk managers to monitor and control risk filters, while supporting order routing to
and expertise for mission critical and
different markets.
value-added client services.
CCG Solution Features
• New Universal Trading Platform functionality, including monitoring, logging and
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• Protocol translation – CCG allows protocol normalization, enabling multiple protocol
translation to facilitate many to many protocol translations
• Support for Fix v4.2, Fix v5.0
• Support for binary API protocols with message versioning to simplify releasing new
functionality reducing customer interruption
• High throughput database enables reduced message contention to increase throughput
• Fast client order ID validation with reduced memory usage
• Timestamp collection and monitoring enabling real-time checks for speed and alerting
• Internal message database viewer enabling more search criteria for message retrieval.
• Flexible message translation framework providing access to existing translations or
plugging in new rules
• Risk management framework providing many existing checks or creating new features
• Routing framework allows different routing features or creating new routing strategies

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Markets

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Clients SFTI CCG Equities

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Market
Access Bonds
Gateway

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affiliates. Such statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements
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