ITS Group

ITS – is a multilateral trading facility (MTF) aimed to provide easy access to global stock markets for clients from CIS countries and EMEA. Founded by professionals of the financial market, ITS combines high liquidity, the most advanced technologies and reliability guaranteed by international regulation.

The trading venue operates basing on the international law principles and provides wide trading and investment opportunities to residents of Kazakhstan and beyond. Created within Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) ITS provides access to stock instruments of the largest global financial centers - the USA and China.

We offer: 1600+ most popular instruments listed on NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX.

We enable: trade global equities when primary markets are closed.

We provide: smart order routing & best execution technologies.

We guarantee: strict compliance with international law and respect of all restrictions imposed by countries and jurisdictions.

We support: at all stages of trading at any time during a trading session.

ITS Сlearing house, operates as a unit within ITS, performs trade execution functions, being an intermediary for all trades on the venue. After the matching of trade, the clearing center provides delivery of securities from seller to buyer and carries out monetary settlements.

Based on information about all trades concluded in ITS, clearing house determines the requirements and obligations of each trading participant. ITS Clearing provides a high level of transparency and security of settlements for all parties.

ITS Clearing performs the following functions:

• requirements setting for procedure, amount, and time limits for collateral asset provision,
• sufficiency control of collateral assets provided for the purpose of order submission,
• sufficiency control of collateral assets provided for settlements on cash and securities under the procedure and within set time limits,
• clearing of obligations with or without a central counterparty.

ITS Central Securities Depository (ITS CSD) operates under the license issued by Astana International Financial Centre. ITS CSD provides custodian services and other depository facilities:

• electronic custody of securities,
• electronic recording of dividends,
• securities accounts service (depositing, withdrawing, transferring securities between securities accounts),
• provision of registers and reports for account holders to clients, issuers, securities registry.

ITS Tech – a technical center that provides development and maintenance of the trading system, as well as all the software necessary trading members integration and back office operations.

The ITS Tech performs the following functions:

• develops the software that ensures the functioning and development of the Trading System of ITS;
• provides Trading Members of ITS  with the right to use the software used for access to trading on ITS:
  • provides logins and passwords to connect to the Trading System of ITS ;
  • carries out mandatory certification of the software that connects to the Trading System of ITS;
• provides Trading Members of ITS  with access to the Document Exchange System to enable the exchange of electronic documents, and provides technical support for such document exchange.

ITS Ideas – a multifunctional platform that provides private investors, professional traders and analysts with various tools for analyzing the securities market. The service provides news streams, aggregated historical market data, multiples, analyst reviews, as well as assessment services based on artificial intelligence and big data. Data from ITS Ideas is available to brokers in the form of information streams for broadcast to client applications, as well as to private investors in the format of a personal subscription.