Imperative Execution is the parent company of IntelligentCross US equities ATS—the first venue to offer a displayed book and use machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize trading performance. Its matching logic optimizes price discovery and minimizes market impact, enhancing market efficiency.
We build our trading platforms with close-to-the-hardware, massively parallel transaction processing that optimizes raw performance and fully utilizes modern multi-core, huge-memory servers.
orders per day8
display order value per day9
major brokers trading daily10
microseconds trading daily11
We design markets that reduce friction in connecting buyers and sellers, enabling them to improve the quality of their execution and minimize their market footprint. We believe in the engineering approach to market design: building venues with matching logic that optimizes towards execution quality and liquidity.
We were raised in the trenches. As deeply experienced equity traders, analysts and engineers from both the buy and sell sides, we know how to identify and focus on what really matters.