Dear customers and partners,

2021 is behind us. Thanks to the great cooperation within the MACD Community, it was another successful year in which we managed many projects together. 

I am very pleased that the MACD Community has continued to grow and once again welcome all new customers and partners very warmly.

For 2022, we have many exciting projects on the agenda and will also tackle completely new topics, such as trading with digital assets.

I am looking forward to what is coming and wish you a good year 2022!

Warmest regards,

George Macdonald, CEO MACD

In the past months, various private and regional banks have successfully gone live with the MACD Order Management System MAX. For some customers, an additional broker was connected at the same time.

In 2021, the first GLOX customer with a direct connection to the SIX Swiss Exchange fully migrated to MAX - two other banks are currently in the migration phase. For one customer, the FX trading functionality was additionally implemented and activated.

Some XKYTE customers used the migration to MAX to have the software hosted in the MACD data centre. The advantage is that these banks now have access to all markets available in the MACD network with a very low IT footprint. The reliability and high availability of MAX is ensured by MACD's high-quality dual-site data centre in Switzerland.

Information on the MAX functionalities can be found here:

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Berner Kantonalbank AG (BEKB) is now available to all MACD banks as a broker. The offering not only includes trading in shares and other exchange-traded products on the SIX platform, but also offers the option to trade ETDs via Eurex (see next article). 

Customers can trade the orders electronically on BEKB's own exchange OTC-X - whose extension to digital assets SME|X MACD has also supported - as well as on the SIX Swiss Exchange, BX Swiss and other markets. 

The MACD Broker programme offers several advantages, e.g.

• The broker pays part of the annual fees.
• Smaller changes on the part of the broker are implemented by MACD at no additional cost.

You can find out which brokers are participating in the programme here:

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Berner Kantonalbank AG (BEKB) has been a participant in Eurex since its foundation and has been trading directly on Eurex with the MACD Order Management System GLOX for almost ten years. The many years of joint experience and the know-how gained in the electronic trading of exchange traded funds is the ideal basis to offer trading of ETDs to MACD customers for the first time. 

Tomas Fort, Stream Lead Customer Relationship: 'Routing ETDs is an important goal for MACD and increasingly a need for our clients. We are therefore very pleased to have been able to implement this project with Berner Kantonalbank AG, our long-standing client.'

Do you have questions or are you interested in this topic? Get in touch with our Sales & Account Management Team:

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