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Capital markets guides, customer stories and videos

Plain-English explainers on trading, settlement and securities finance, plus real deployments, product demos and our security credentials.

Insights & Guides

Explainers and guides on trading, securities finance, settlement, regulation and the Saudi and GCC markets.

Buyer's Guide
How to Evaluate Corporate Actions Software
Criteria and vendor questions for corporate actions software, from MT564 to the ledger.
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Buyer's Guide
Reconciliation for Multi-Asset Operations: What to Look For
What to look for in reconciliation across custodians, entities and currencies.
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Buyer's Guide
Choosing an OMS/EMS for Digital Assets
Requirements for an institutional digital-asset OMS/EMS, from venue routing to custody.
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Buyer's Guide
Clearing and Settlement Tracking Explained
Tracking every trade from execution to settled: status per leg, fails and T+N cycles.
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Buyer's Guide
Family Office and Private Bank Consolidated Reporting: What to Look For
Consolidated family and private bank reporting: entities, custodians, returns, statements.
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Buyer's Guide
How to Choose a Capital Markets Platform: A Buyer's Checklist
A buyer's checklist for choosing front-to-back trading and back-office software.
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Guide
What a Modern Exchange Platform Needs: A Guide for Emerging-Market Exchanges
What emerging-market exchanges need from matching, data, surveillance and post-trade.
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Guide
Cross-Border Trading in the GCC: How Tabadul Hub and Market Links Work
How Tabadul Hub and other access models let GCC investors trade across markets.
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Wealth
Family Office Technology in the Middle East: Running Every Asset on One Platform
Gulf family offices: one book for every asset, entity and bank, with four-eyes control.
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AI
AI in Capital Markets Operations: Assistants That Act Only With Your Approval
Where AI helps brokerage operations, and why a person approves every action it prepares.
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Strategy
The Capital Markets Infrastructure Opportunity in Emerging Markets
Why emerging markets need one front-to-back capital-markets platform.
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Strategy
From Commercial Bank to Investment Bank
Why banks expand into capital markets, and the infrastructure required.
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Guide
Foreign Investor Access to Saudi Markets: From QFI to Direct Access
How foreign investors access Saudi markets since the 1 February 2026 opening, and what changed from QFI.
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Explainer
How Margin Call & Liquidation Engines Work
Margin metrics, thresholds, and how automated liquidation protects the book.
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Technical Guide
Connecting to Tadawul, EDAA & Muqassa
A technical primer on the Saudi capital-market infrastructure.
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Guide
Building Shariah-Compliant Capital Markets Infrastructure
Sukuk, Tawarruq financing, and Islamic + conventional products on one platform.
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Explainer
DVP Settlement and the Move to ISO 20022
Delivery-versus-payment, settlement cycles, and the SWIFT-to-ISO 20022 shift.
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Guide
Corporate Actions Automation
From ISO 15022 depository feeds to beneficiary entitlements and maker-checker.
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Explainer
How Repo Financing Works
Repurchase agreements, collateral, haircuts, and DVP settlement in plain English.
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Explainer
What Is Securities Borrowing & Lending (SBL)?
How securities lending works, and the principal and agency models explained.
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Explainer
OMS vs EMS vs OEMS: What's the Difference?
How order and execution management systems differ, and why they're converging.
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Insight
The Evolving Role of RegTech in Finance
How RegTech is transforming compliance and risk management.
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White Paper
The Future of Multi-Asset Trading
Industry trends and technology evolution in institutional markets.
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Research
Digital Asset Adoption: 2025 Institutional Survey
What 147 institutional executives said about crypto integration, custody and infrastructure.
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Technical Guide
Building Scalable Trading Infrastructure
Best practices for modernizing legacy trading systems into future-ready platforms.
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Reference
Capital Markets Glossary
Plain-English definitions of 116 trading, post-trade, custody, wealth and GCC market terms.
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Our founder and product team on how ZagTrader is built, in under three minutes.

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Free Tools

Free tools for developers and analysts working with trading systems.

Free tool, no sign-up

Free FIX log analyzer and parser

A free FIX log analyzer and parser for FIX engineers and trading operations: decode every tag, validate against the FIX dictionary, follow each order and see fill rates, rejects, latency and session health for the whole log.

  • Fill and reject rates, ack latency p50 and p99, order outcomes
  • Reject reasons ranked by 373, 103, 102 and 380, with how-to-fix guides
  • Session health: logons, sequence gaps, resends and test requests
  • Flow ladder, order blotter and compare logs: client against broker
  • Runs in your browser: nothing you load is uploaded

Free to use, no sign-up. Available publicly until further notice.

FIX log analytics view: a KPI strip with message count, time span, peak rate, orders, fill rate, reject rate and ack latency p50 and p99, above a message-rate chart over time split by message category
Free tool, no sign-up

Free MT and ISO 20022 message parser

A free parser for Swift MT and ISO 20022 messages: every block, field and code explained, reference pages for every message type, and IBAN, BIC and UETR checkers, all in your browser.

  • Every MT block, field, sequence and qualifier decoded in plain English
  • ISO 20022 XML shown as a tree, with the MT message that does the same job
  • Status, reason and event codes explained, with what to do next
  • Runs in your browser: nothing you paste is uploaded

Free to use, no sign-up. Available publicly until further notice.

MT/MX Parser decoding an MT540 Receive Free message: the format checks pass, the basic and application header blocks are decoded, and each field is listed with its tag, qualifier, raw value and decoded value, grouped by sequence
Free tool, no sign-up

Free security lookup

Find any security by ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, FIGI, exchange ticker or name, and see every listing with its exchange and FIGIs.

  • ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, FIGI, exchange ticker or company name
  • Check digits verified before anything is sent
  • Every listing with its exchange, security type and FIGIs, with copy buttons
  • Free, no sign-up

By identifier

FIX Protocol Parser
A free online tool to parse, translate, and validate raw FIX messages. No installation or signup required.
Tool
MT/MX Message Parser
A free online parser for Swift MT and ISO 20022 messages, with code look-ups and IBAN, BIC and UETR checkers. No installation or sign-up required.
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Security Lookup
Find a security by ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL, FIGI, exchange ticker or name, and see every listing with its exchange, security type and FIGIs. No sign-up required.
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Videos & Demos

Short product demos and feature walkthroughs.

Shaping the Future of Finance
A short film on why ZagTrader exists: helping financial institutions move faster and scale.
2 min
Overview
Smart Order Routing in Action
How smart order routing picks the best venue for each order.
1:25 min
Feature Spotlight
Group Trading on Crypto Exchanges
Place one group order across several crypto exchanges at once.
1:30 min
Feature Spotlight
ZagTrader Market Making Algorithm
Automated quoting and inventory management, front to back.
1:30 min
Feature Spotlight

CEO Insights

Interviews and podcasts with Shihab Khalil, Founder, Chairman & CEO, on how ZagTrader was built and where it is going.

Interview
YouTube
The Moment Time Stops: Bootstrapping Fintech & Breaking Even
ZagTrader's CEO Shihab Khalil on bootstrapping a fintech company, the road to breaking even, and the lessons behind building global trading infrastructure.
Interview
X (Twitter)
Discover ZagFN: The Future of Global Trading and Investment
ZagTrader's CEO Shihab Khalil explains how the company evolved from a traditional software vendor into a cloud-native financial network, built to power global trading and investment operations through ZagFN.
Interview
X (Twitter)
From Then to Now: How ZagTrader Evolved Over the Years
Every innovation is driven by one goal: helping our clients trade smarter, faster, and more efficiently. Watch our CEO explain how ZagTrader has developed over the years.
Interview
X (Twitter)
What is ZagTrader in 60 Seconds?
Our CEO Shihab Khalil breaks down what ZagTrader is in just 60 seconds. A quick introduction to our platform and mission.
Podcast
YouTube
Arabic
The Journey & Vision Behind ZagTrader (Arabic)
Our CEO Shihab Khalil tells his story and the bold vision behind ZagTrader. From founding a fintech in Dubai to powering institutions worldwide, this is the story behind the platform that's redefining how the world trades.

Security & Compliance

ZagTrader holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification for its information security management system. See our security practices, data protection and regulatory support, or ask us for a copy of the certificate.

ISO 27001:2022

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