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Modern Corporate Treasury Solutions
Empower your business or clients to maximize yield opportunities on operating cash by enhancing your treasury management software with modern and secure fixed income trading technology and automated treasury investing.
Use Real-Time Fixed Income Trading Technology
AscendOS
AscendOS for Corporate Treasury Management
Your Treasury Management System (TMS) helps you manage cash flows, forecasting, and payments — but when it comes to optimizing idle cash, legacy investing modules that feature overnight batch processing and manual trade execution can slow you down.
Instead, use Apex’s AscendOS infrastructure, which brings professional-grade investing capabilities to enhance your treasury management software with real-time processing, 24×5 trading, and sophisticated order management and execution.
Give your treasury team access to these professional investing tools by embedding Ascend Investor’s white-label trading UIs directly into your existing TMS — no custom screen development required — or connect via APIs if you prefer.
Professional Investing Tools
Automated or Manual Treasury Investing
Your treasury team deserves the same sophisticated infrastructure that institutional asset managers rely on every day. Apex’s treasury solution gives you access to enterprise-grade investing capabilities — not watered-down features or simplified workflows that can limit your options — including automations designed to help deliver best execution.
Plus, expand your access to a wide array of fixed income securities, including both U.S. and offshore instruments. (Note that if you opt to use Apex Direct, your available asset classes are limited to U.S. investment-grade fixed income securities.)
Not sure what to look for in a treasury investing solution? Check out this article:
How to Find the Best Treasury Management Software for Investing.
Order Management System (OMS)
- Trade programmatically via REST API for automated strategies or use hands-on trading when your treasury team needs to respond to market opportunities or make one-off investment decisions.
- Receive real-time notifications for order creation, status changes, execution updates, and position changes via webhooks
Execution Management System (EMS)
- Choose from multiple routing strategies designed for best execution: Smart Order Router for aggregated liquidity or algorithmic strategies for larger trades
- Access liquidity across wholesalers, exchanges, alternative trading systems (ATSs), and single-dealer platforms
- Trade fractional and notional amounts to optimize every dollar of idle cash with precision
- Meet your liquidity timing needs by executing orders using our 24×5 solution available during pre-market, core, after-hours, and overnight sessions
Trade Desk
- Get white-glove, high-touch support from licensed, veteran trading specialists who can help optimize routing strategies for complex or large orders
- Receive real-time assistance via Slack, phone, or other direct channels when you need expert guidance
- Ask for help executing large fixed income purchases, Request for Quote (RFQ) transactions, and orders requiring specialized handling with discretion and care
Real-Time Processing
Better Intraday Liquidity
Management
Stop waiting until tomorrow to see today’s positions. Legacy corporate treasury solutions process trades overnight, creating a 24-hour blind spot that can make intraday liquidity management feel like guesswork. AscendOS delivers instant visibility into your cash balances and positions as soon as trades execute, helping you make informed decisions.
- See up-to-the-moment positions and cash balances
- Have peace of mind knowing that trades are settled without the risk of batch failures that won’t surface until the next business day
- Monitor and manage your investment activity around the clock, if desired
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Ascend Investor
Embed Pre-Built UIs for Faster AscendOS Access
Skip months of custom development work building trading screens from scratch. Ascend Investor’s embeddable UI components provide production-ready trading, portfolio management, and account interfaces that integrate directly into your existing Treasury Management System — letting you deploy professional-grade investing capabilities in weeks, not months.
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Choose your integration approach: Use full-page investment workflows or use modular widgets
Support Web and Mobile
Ascend Investor includes UIs for desktop, web, and native iOS and Android applications
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Apex Direct
The Modern Brokerage-as-a-Service Solution
Apex Direct is a turnkey solution designed to help treasury managers access the regulatory registration, technology, and custodial services you need to facilitate trades on behalf of your institution or clients.
- Lean on Apex Direct’s introducing broker-dealer FINRA registration instead of filing for your own FINRA registration
- Use a unified screen, Ascend Workstation, to manage end-to-end investing workflows, rather than tab-hopping between multiple systems
- Outsource your back-office brokerage duties and operational tasks to Apex
- Count on Apex to be your custodian and safeguard your assets
- Access a comprehensive set of U.S. investment-grade fixed income securities, such as Treasuries, U.S. investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. municipals, and U.S. brokered CDs
FAQs
A Few Apex Corporate Treasury Solution FAQs
When you’re evaluating new opportunities, it’s helpful to get direct answers to your specific questions. That’s why we’ve included a handful of the most common queries we get here — start a conversation with a sales rep if you need additional details.
In the securities industry, batch processing has been the standard for decades. From a treasury manager’s position, it means your custodian updates your account(s) overnight using an end-of-day file you upload. This means you won’t see today’s trades, dividend payments, or liquidated positions reflected in your account until the next business day.
Real-time processing is a relatively new capability in the securities industry — Apex is among the pioneers to offer it — made possible by modern cloud-native infrastructure. Real-time systems process transactions right away, giving you up-to-the-moment visibility into cash balances, executed trades, and investment positions throughout the day, enabling you to make informed intraday decisions based on current data.
Most Treasury Management Systems (TMS) excel at cash forecasting, payments, and bank reconciliation — but their built-in investment modules can be limited to basic bond trading workflows built on legacy technology that rely on phone calls to dealers, request-for-quote workflows, and other slow, manual steps.
Adding Apex’s professional investment capabilities to your TMS gives your treasury team access to:
- Advanced order routing and execution tools designed to help achieve best execution across multiple liquidity venues
- An array of treasury-appropriate securities beyond bonds
- Real-time position and cash balance updates for better intraday liquidity management
- Flexible trading options including fractional and notional amounts to help optimize idle cash deployment
- Workflow automations that reduce time spent on manual tasks
Your treasury management software may be holding you back if you experience any of these warning signs.
- You only see updated positions and balances after overnight batch processing and start-of-day reconciliation is completed
- Trading requires multiple phone calls, manual price negotiations, or fax confirmations
- You’re limited to bonds only, with no access to mutual funds or automated sweep programs
- Trade execution requires toggling between multiple systems or vendor platforms
- You lack a unified view of positions, cash balances, and investment performance
Registration options
Outsourced regulatory registration
Offer brokerage services without the complexities and delays associated with becoming a registered broker-dealer. Choose outsourced regulatory registration, which includes the modern technology of Apex AscendOS, to get you up and running on your own timeline.
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