Global Equities

The Lighthouse Financial equities division is staffed by experienced professionals that focus on providing best execution to our Institutional client base. Comprised of former bulge bracket institutional traders, we have assembled a best of breed trading desk that help clients source liquidity around the globe and act as market advocates in minimizing information leakage.

We specialize in trading and finding liquidity in small cap, mid cap, micro cap and ADRs, and have access to the major trading venues as well as significant natural order flow. In addition to the US Listed and OTC market, we access more than 50 developed and emerging markets around the globe. We provide our institutional clients with specialized execution services, such as Algorithmic strategies, pairs and dark ATFs. We connect with the majority of Order Management and Execution Management systems through the FIX protocol and support Global and Domestic Oasys.

Equity Derivatives

Lighthouse Financial Equity Derivatives Platform offers execution services to broker-dealers, hedge funds, liquidity providers and institutions both foreign and domestic. The team covers all areas of equity derivatives including:

• Single stock listed and OTC options
• International ETF Options (Latin America, Europe, Asia)
• Domestic ETF options (including currency, commodity, fixed Income , leveraged, across all market sectors), listed and OTC
• Index listed and OTC options, including all delta-1 products (creation/redemption, dividend swaps, total return swaps and Basis Trades)
• Structured products
• Derivatives coverage in U.S. and Canada

The Equity Derivatives team, having an in-depth understanding of volatility and trading strategies can help assist our clients to repair and protect portfolios using structures designed to have risk-adjusted exposure to fluctuations in volatility.

Market Intelligence

Lighthouse Financial customers benefit from our highly regarded Market Intelligence team. Our ability to gather, decipher and distribute real time market intelligence ranging from a single actionable item to global macro events, ensures that our clients are always up to speed with current market drivers. We produce several timely pieces on a daily basis and engage our customers throughout the day as significant events develop.

Research Affiliates

CSA

Lighthouse offers a comprehensive Commission Management platform that allows our customers to pay for 28e compliant services through a research services program, which includes CSAs (Commission Sharing Agreements) and CCAs (Client Commission Agreements).