Building blocks for institutional grade algorithmic trading
A unified ecosystem for rapid, robust development of sophisticated automated trading models, algorithms, and strategies — build safer, faster, and cheaper solutions for electronic trading.


An alternative answer to build vs buy
Proven, low-cost, high-performance framework with out-of-the-box functionality — keep your quants focused on models and business logic, not plumbing.
Build vs Buy
Qube offers an alternative approach to the “build vs buy” dilemma: a proven, low-cost and high-performance framework with out-of-the-box functionality.
Multi-Asset
A rich, productive development experience for Quant and Quant/Dev teams focused on business logic and models — asset-agnostic by design.
Applications
Leverage applications already built with the Qube SDK: liquidity aggregation, execution algos, real-time risk management and complex auto-hedging.
Everything a trading stack needs, already engineered
Asset-agnostic framework
With FX, Fixed Income and Digital Asset implementations.
Low-latency engine
Event-driven processing engine engineered for sub-microsecond applications.
Strategy & order framework
Built-in algorithm implementations, order state machines and TCA.
Middleware abstractions
Database and middleware abstractions with kdb+, SQL and Solace built in — amongst others.
Stress-testing framework
Performance, controls and compliance auditability.
Back-testing environment
Comprehensive replay and back-testing so strategies ship safer, faster, cheaper.
One ecosystem, two surfaces
Qube
The core codebase for developing and extending electronic trading applications — streams, transports, orders, algos, state machines, telemetry and stress-testing.
Read the docs →UI PLATFORMVertx
Designer-driven trading UIs over live Qube transports — dashboards, controls and applications without bespoke front-end builds.
Read the docs →Built by people who ran algo trading businesses
Four decades of combined experience building and leading award-winning quantitative, electronic trading and digital asset businesses.
Jeff Leal
Two decades building and leading FX quantitative electronic trading and digital asset businesses.
- Monochrome — MD, COO & Head of Digital Asset Markets; Investment Committee; Chair of Risk Committee
- BNY Mellon — MD, Global Head of FX Markets Electronic & Voice Spot Trading; FX Executive Committee
- Nomura — MD, Global Head of FX Electronic Markets; Electronic Markets Committee
- Lehman Brothers — ED, Senior Quantitative Analyst, FX Electronic Trading
Martin Zinkin
Two decades of capital markets experience building award-winning quantitative and electronic trading businesses.
- Deutsche Bank — MD, Global Head of Markets Electronic Trading
- BNP Paribas — MD, Global Head of EFIRST (Electronic FX, Rates, Swaps & Treasuries)
- Nomura — MD, Global Head of Modeling & Technology Strategy; co-head of Electronic Markets
- Lehman Brothers — MD, Head of FX & FI Electronic Trading; FX Management Committee
Research, announcements & press
Quadra Partnership
Digital asset initiative giving clients access to tier-one institutional algorithmic execution capabilities.
Read the press release →eFinancialCareers
“The platform that is coming for quant trading jobs.”
Read the article ↗The Full FX
QubeAlgo launches to speed up trading app development.
Read the article ↗Product Launch
QubeAlgo aims to speed development time and reduce costs of building complex trading applications.
Read the press release →See it running live
Tell us about your stack and your build-vs-buy question — we’ll show you what Qube takes off the critical path.