Connect to Arqaam Capital with ZagTrader

Who is Arqaam Capital?

Arqaam Capital is an investment bank headquartered in Dubai and operating from the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), with a specialist focus on emerging and frontier markets across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. Rather than positioning itself as a generalist global bulge-bracket house, Arqaam concentrates on the regions it knows best, combining on-the-ground market access with research and execution coverage tailored to those economies.

The firm's franchise spans institutional brokerage, sales and trading, equity and fixed income research, and investment banking. For asset managers, banks, and institutions seeking exposure to MENA, African, and other emerging and frontier markets, Arqaam Capital is a natural execution and research counterparty whose regional specialization complements broader global coverage. Reaching that counterparty over a stable, well-monitored connection is a practical requirement for any desk that routes order flow to it, and that is the role ZagTrader is built to fill.

How ZagTrader connects and routes to Arqaam Capital

ZagTrader provides institutional connectivity to Arqaam Capital through FIX sessions and APIs, established and tested so that orders, executions, and acknowledgements travel over resilient, monitored links. Where relevant to the markets being traded, connectivity can also be delivered via regional hubs and ECNs — for example Tabadul Hub — so that flow reaches the appropriate destinations and venues through a single point of integration.

Connectivity is delivered as part of ZagTrader's integrated Order Management System (OMS) and Execution Management System (EMS). Traders work from a unified blotter, apply pre-trade compliance and risk checks, and use smart order routing logic to direct orders appropriately before they leave the desk. Drop-copy sessions provide an independent, real-time stream of execution and order-status messages for reconciliation, surveillance, and risk monitoring. Because order management, execution, routing, and post-trade share one platform, there are no brittle hand-offs between disconnected systems.

• FIX sessions and APIs for order entry, execution reports, and acknowledgements.
• Connectivity via regional hubs and ECNs such as Tabadul Hub where relevant to the market.
• Smart order routing managed within the OMS/EMS before orders are sent.
• Drop-copy sessions for independent reconciliation and surveillance.
• Pre-trade compliance and risk checks applied before orders leave the desk.

What you can access through Arqaam Capital

As an emerging-markets-focused investment bank, Arqaam Capital offers execution and liquidity oriented toward the Middle East, Africa, and broader frontier and emerging markets. Routing through it via ZagTrader's multi-asset platform lets a desk reach that regional coverage from a single, consistent workflow rather than maintaining separate tools per market or product line. The instruments and services available always depend on a client's own agreements and onboarding with the firm.

• Equities — cash equities across MENA, African, and other emerging and frontier markets.
• Fixed income — regional and emerging-market debt instruments.
• Sales and trading coverage informed by Arqaam's equity and fixed income research.
• Access to harder-to-reach frontier markets through a regional specialist counterparty.
• Further instruments and services available under the relevant client agreements.

Settlement and post-trade

Execution is only the first step in the trade lifecycle, and ZagTrader is built to carry flow routed to Arqaam Capital all the way through to booking. Fills captured over FIX and confirmed via drop-copy feed straight into the platform's post-trade processing, so that trades, allocations, and positions stay consistent without manual re-keying — which matters across the varied market infrastructures found in emerging and frontier markets.

The platform supports trade confirmation and allocation, generation of settlement instructions, and reconciliation against counterparty, custodian, and clearing records. Settlement itself takes place through the relevant market infrastructure and the client's own custody and clearing arrangements; ZagTrader's role is to manage the order and post-trade data flow accurately around that process. Reporting and audit-ready record keeping are produced from the same source of truth that runs from order inception, helping desks meet their internal control and regulatory obligations across the jurisdictions in which they operate.

Why route to Arqaam Capital through ZagTrader

Routing to Arqaam Capital through ZagTrader means consolidating execution, routing, risk, compliance, and post-trade onto one multi-asset front-to-back platform instead of stitching together separate systems for each function. A single OMS/EMS blotter spans Arqaam Capital alongside other supported brokers and venues, so a desk can pair Arqaam's regional emerging-markets specialization with global counterparties and manage the full book in one place, while operations work from one consistent set of records.

ZagTrader's deep roots in the MENA and GCC region make it a well-matched platform for desks trading the markets Arqaam covers, with the global reach to extend the same workflow elsewhere. FIX and API connectivity and drop-copy reconciliation give desks confidence that what was sent, executed, and booked all agree, while smart order routing and pre-trade controls keep execution disciplined. As needs grow, the same platform scales to additional counterparties, asset classes, and markets without re-platforming.

• One multi-asset OMS/EMS for Arqaam Capital alongside additional brokers and venues.
• Regional MENA/GCC depth paired with global reach in a single workflow.
• FIX and API connectivity with drop-copy reconciliation.
• Smart order routing and pre-trade compliance and risk controls.
• Integrated post-trade flow from execution through booking and reporting.