EXANTE is a global prime broker built for professional and institutional investors who need deep, flexible market access without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. From its European base, the firm has grown into a cross‑border player regulated in several key jurisdictions, reflecting both its international footprint and its commitment to robust oversight. Through a single multi‑currency account, EXANTE connects clients to more than 50 markets, 8 asset classes and over 1.7 million financial instruments; enough breadth for truly global portfolios, delivered in a way that feels unified rather than fragmented.
At the heart of this proposition sits the firm’s proprietary trading platform, which brings together robust infrastructure, advanced trading modules and customisable solutions tailored to the needs of sophisticated investors rather than retail traders chasing momentum. From the outset, EXANTE has positioned itself as a firm “built by professionals, for professionals”, and that ethos runs through both its technology stack and its service model. Its founders saw early that growing market complexity would demand tools that could simplify access without sacrificing control.
One Account, Many Markets
Instead of offering a narrow, single‑market experience, EXANTE designed its architecture so that a client can move from European equities to US options to Asian ETFs within the same environment, using the same account and collateral. For hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and family offices that routinely trade across time zones and asset classes, this consolidation can be the difference between running a truly integrated strategy and stitching together a patchwork of partial solutions.
Within a single interface, users can monitor positions, manage collateral, analyse exposures and route orders to a broad range of venues. For many professional traders, the key advantage is not any one headline feature. Still, the way the platform collapses complexity: instead of logging in and out of different regional brokers or custodians, they can oversee a global book from one place. In practical terms, this lets clients focus more on opportunity and risk, and less on operational friction.
Keeping Humans in the Loop
What distinguishes EXANTE in an increasingly crowded field of fintech‑driven brokers is its decision to keep humans firmly in the loop. As much of the industry has migrated towards automated, ticket‑based or bot‑led support, the firm has doubled down on named relationship managers for every client. Each professional or institutional client has a dedicated point of contact who understands their strategy, operational needs and preferred way of working, backed by a multilingual support team that aims to resolve most queries at first contact.
The result is an experience that blends the speed and scale of a modern platform with a degree of personal accountability that many market participants feel has been lost elsewhere. EXANTE’s technologists have embraced automation and AI in the background to streamline processes and enhance monitoring, but they draw a clear line between using technology to reduce friction and using it as a substitute for human judgement. The goal is not to eliminate conversations with clients; it is to ensure those conversations happen at a higher level, informed by cleaner data and more intuitive interfaces.
Technology That Reduces Noise
This philosophy shapes EXANTE’s approach to product development. The firm’s proprietary platform is engineered to support multi‑asset trading across desktop, web and mobile, with an API layer for clients who want to plug in their own models or connect external tools. Rather than building features for their own sake, EXANTE focuses on tools that help clients find what matters faster, leaving final decisions to the people who own the risk.
Omni Screener, EXANTE’s discovery module, fits into this broader ecosystem. It is designed to help clients filter the firm’s vast universe of instruments using criteria that matter to professional investors – volatility bands, liquidity thresholds, sector or thematic exposure and other quantitative signals – so they can quickly identify markets or instruments that warrant a closer look. Crucially, the firm sees tools like Omni Screener as starting points for conversations with relationship managers, not replacements for them.
Fifteen Years of Quiet Expansion
This balance between powerful infrastructure and personal contact has shaped EXANTE’s growth journey over the past decade and a half. Founded in 2011, the firm has navigated an environment defined by post‑crisis regulation, geopolitical shocks and rapid technological change. Rather than chasing mass‑market account numbers, it has focused on building durable relationships with clients who value both speed and substance: hedge funds looking for global reach, family offices wanting institutional‑grade tools without building their own infrastructure, and professional traders who expect a platform to handle complexity quietly in the background.
The year 2026 marks EXANTE’s fifteenth anniversary, a milestone the firm sees as an opportunity to look both backwards and forwards. The EXANTE brand is licensed to a family of brokers and individually regulated by CySEC in Cyprus, the SFC in Hong Kong, the MFSA in Malta and the FCA in the United Kingdom, with activities in Poland supervised by the KNF and a Dubai International Financial Centre presence supporting its Middle East ambitions. For professional investors who must answer to their own boards, regulators or end‑clients, this regulatory architecture underpins decisions about where to place assets and whom to trust with execution.
Thought Leadership and a Different Kind of Competition
Part of EXANTE’s visibility strategy involves leaning more into thought leadership without crossing into advice. Its research team, led by Global Head of Research Dr Renee Friedman, produces regular commentary, reports and events designed to help clients make sense of global macro, sector shifts and policy developments. Work such as its “Winners and Losers in a Changing World” analysis underscores a recurring theme: in a rewired global economy, abundant data and access must be matched by discernment in portfolio construction.
In an industry where well‑known names like Interactive Brokers, Saxo Bank, IG, Freedom Finance, Tiger Brokers and Charles Schwab dominate the headlines, EXANTE is carving out a space defined less by mass‑market reach and more by the experience it offers a specific kind of client. It is not trying to be the default choice for every trader with a smartphone. Instead, it aims to be the quiet, reliable counterpart for professionals and institutions who require cross‑asset access, disciplined execution and someone they can call when they need to solve a complex, multi‑market problem quickly.
Simpler and More Sophisticated
Ultimately, the firm’s story returns to a simple premise: access to global markets should be both simpler and more sophisticated. Simpler, in the sense that clients should not need a small army of brokers, logins and support desks to execute their strategies. More refined, in the sense that the tools available to them should match the complexity of the world they are trying to navigate, without turning every decision into an exercise in interface management.
As EXANTE steps into its next chapter, it intends to keep refining that balance: expanding its platform’s capabilities, enhancing discovery features such as Omni Screener, and reinforcing the human connections that underpin every account. In a financial system increasingly mediated by algorithms and apps, that combination of robust infrastructure and personal contact may be its most distinctive asset. For EXANTE, the most advanced thing it can offer clients is not just a screen filled with data, but a human being who knows how to use that data and a platform that lets both of them see the whole market at once.
