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Dealing Desk by Design: A Practical Playbook for Manual Approvals, Intervention Rules, and Audit-Ready Execution

A practical playbook for when brokers need a dealing desk—covering intervention triggers, approval workflows, and audit logging to stay compliant and operationally efficient.

May 5, 202613 min1,007

Thomas Mueller

FIX API Without the Myth: When Brokers Actually Need It (and When They Don’t)

FIX can unlock institutional-grade connectivity—but it’s not a shortcut to better execution. Here’s what FIX really does, what it doesn’t, and how it fits in a modern brokerage stack.

May 5, 20267 min1,048

David Kovač

Do You Really Need FIX/FAST Market Data? A Broker’s Decision Guide (With a Simple Checklist)

FIX/FAST can be the right choice for latency-sensitive, high-throughput market data—but many brokers can meet client needs with simpler feeds. Here’s how to decide without overbuilding.

May 5, 20267 min1,097

David Kovač

Is Your LP the Problem—or Your Traders? A Data-Driven Playbook for Latency, Slippage, and Fills

Stop guessing whether execution issues come from liquidity or client behavior. Learn how RiskBO Analytics uses latency, slippage, and fill patterns to classify flow and fix routing fast.

May 3, 20267 min998

Priya Desai

Is It Your Traders or Your Liquidity Stack? A Simple “Two-Lens” Test for Execution Complaints

Execution complaints often get mislabeled as “toxic flow.” This post shows a practical comparison method to separate client-behavior issues from LP/bridge/aggregation problems using a few clean checks.

May 3, 20267 min1,036

Thomas Mueller

Launch a Saint Lucia Brokerage in 30 Days: The Lean Tech Stack That Survives Your First 500 Clients

A practical Saint Lucia “fast launch” blueprint: the minimum viable brokerage tech stack to go live quickly—and what to postpone until you’ve proven demand with ~500 funded clients.

May 3, 20266 min1,002

David Kovač

When Your LP Goes Dark: A Practical Liquidity Incident Runbook for Brokers

A broker-ready runbook for LP outages, price spikes, and stale quotes—covering roles, decision thresholds, must-have logs, and client communications that reduce damage and disputes.

May 3, 20266 min1,132

Amira Khalid

Stop Arguing With Your LP: Build a Toxic Flow Score You Can Defend in One Slide

A practical blueprint for designing a broker-friendly Toxic Flow Score in RiskBO—clear inputs, explainable weights, and LP-ready evidence that supports routing and hedging decisions.

May 3, 20266 min1,006

David Kovač

From Best Price to Best Outcome: FIX-Powered Smart Order Routing Rules Brokers Actually Use

See how brokers use FIX to implement smart order routing with practical rule examples for spread, slippage, toxic flow, and LP quota management—without over-engineering execution.

April 19, 20266 min1,387

David Kovač

Your Daily Risk Dashboard: 9 Metrics Brokers Should Watch (Before the Spreadsheet Breaks)

A practical daily checklist for brokerage risk backoffices—exposure, P&L, routing, toxicity, and liquidity health—plus why spreadsheets fail once volume, assets, and teams scale.

April 19, 20267 min1,308

Noman Chaudhary

Saint Lucia Brokerage Launch Plan: From Paperwork to First Trade in 90 Days

A practical 2026 launch roadmap for starting a forex brokerage in Saint Lucia—entity setup, banking, compliance operations, tech stack choices, and a go-live checklist you can execute.

April 19, 20266 min1,346

Aisha Rahman

Chasing Microseconds? FIX Speed Won’t Save You From Bad Fills

Faster FIX sessions don’t fix slow fills. Here’s why routing logic, last look, and server geography decide execution quality—and what brokers should measure instead.

April 19, 20267 min1,325

Priya Desai