Ace Alpha Tech builds and runs the software that powers electronic trading - the algorithms, platforms and risk tools that brokers and professional traders use to execute orders, test strategies and manage portfolios. It was founded in 2012 as a research and analytics firm, converted to a public company in 2024, and now sells a suite of trading technology products directly to financial institutions and retail brokers, mostly in India. The recurring approach is custom-built, deeply integrated software: the company designs its systems to sit on top of a client's existing infrastructure, so the client gets a modern trading front-end without having to rip out what already works. # Business segments A single engine - trading technology platforms - sold to institutions, proprietary desks and retail brokers, with minority stakes in two allied firms that extend its reach into high-frequency and multi-asset trading. ## 1. Trading technology platforms: the software that runs electronic trading **The company sells a full stack of trading software - algorithms, risk tools, simulators and user-management systems - that plugs into a client's existing order and risk infrastructure, so brokers and traders get a modern front-end without replacing their back-end.** - **Algorithms for large orders** - institutional clients use automated strategies that slice a big order into many small pieces and execute them over time, reducing the price impact that would come from dumping the whole order at once. - **A platform for high-volume traders** - the proprietary trading system bundles algorithmic execution with portfolio management, back-testing (replaying a strategy against historical data to see if it would have worked) and performance analytics, all in one electronic workspace. - **Cloud-based retail platform** - for brokers serving retail customers, the company provides a trading front-end that uses the FIX protocol (the standard language financial firms use to send orders electronically), with real-time risk monitoring and fraud prevention built in. - **Simulation before live trading** - clients can test and tune a trading strategy in a simulated market environment that connects to their existing systems through APIs, letting them optimise variables based on outcomes before risking real money. - **One-stop IT package** - the company bundles its software with OMS/RMS integration (the systems that manage orders and monitor risk) and hardware support, so a broker gets a single supplier for the whole technology stack instead of stitching together multiple vendors. - **Direct sales, long cycles** - the management team sells personally to each client, which means every deal involves a highly skilled team and an extended sales process, particularly when selling to institutional and proprietary trading desks. ## 2. Strategic stakes in trading technology firms: exposure to high-frequency and multi-asset platforms **The company holds minority positions in two unlisted trading technology firms - one specialising in low-latency statistical arbitrage, the other in multi-asset enterprise platforms - giving it a window into adjacent markets without building everything in-house.** - **Low-latency quantitative trading** - the company owns up to 6.70% of Silverleaf Capital Services, a firm that uses machine learning, AI and in-house low-latency hardware and software to run statistical arbitrage strategies (trading that exploits tiny, short-lived price differences between related securities) and to support research projects. - **Multi-asset enterprise platform** - the company holds up to 1.83% of uTrade Solutions, which sells a trading platform that handles multiple asset classes, along with algorithms, risk management, direct market access and exchange solutions, to financial institutions and their end-clients. - **Synergy, not control** - the stated purpose of the uTrade stake is to expand the company's presence on digital platforms and create operational and technological synergies; neither stake gives it a board seat or management influence. # Group structure and partners **A standalone company with no subsidiaries or joint ventures - just two minority stakes that sit on the balance sheet as strategic investments.** - The company has no subsidiary, associate company or joint venture. - It holds up to 6.70% of Silverleaf Capital Services, a high-frequency trading and quantitative research firm. - It holds up to 1.83% of uTrade Solutions, a trading technology company providing multi-asset platforms and exchange solutions. - No promoter or group company has any interest in uTrade Solutions.