Route Orders to BofA Securities (Bank of America)

Who is BofA Securities?

BofA Securities, Inc. is the institutional broker-dealer arm of Bank of America Corporation, one of the largest financial institutions in the world. Operating within Bank of America's Global Banking and Global Markets businesses, BofA Securities provides sales, trading, research, and capital-raising services to corporations, institutional investors, governments, and other professional clients across the globe.

As a full-service global investment bank, BofA Securities maintains a presence across the major financial centers of the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Its franchise spans equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities, and a broad set of derivatives and financing capabilities. For institutions building global execution coverage, a leading bulge-bracket counterparty such as BofA Securities is frequently part of the broker panel — and reaching it through a single, well-governed routing layer simplifies how that relationship is operated day to day.

How ZagTrader connects and routes to BofA Securities

ZagTrader connects to BofA Securities using the industry-standard FIX protocol, the same messaging framework that underpins institutional order routing worldwide. Orders originate on the trading desk inside ZagTrader's Order Management System (OMS) and Execution Management System (EMS), then flow to the broker over resilient, monitored sessions engineered for the throughput and reliability that professional trading demands.

Where supported by the relationship, ZagTrader can route via direct market access (DMA) and to the broker's electronic execution and algorithmic offerings, so traders can select the execution style that fits each order. Routing is governed by ZagTrader's pre-trade compliance and risk controls: limit checks, restricted-instrument rules, and order validation are applied before a message leaves the platform. Because order capture, routing, and execution monitoring share one system, the desk works from a single consolidated blotter rather than reconciling activity across disconnected tools.

What you can access through BofA Securities

Reaching BofA Securities through ZagTrader gives institutions a route to a global investment bank's multi-asset execution and markets services. The instrument coverage available to any given desk depends on its own onboarding, agreements, and entitlements with the broker, but the breadth of a bulge-bracket franchise typically spans the following areas.

• Global equities — cash equities and related electronic, algorithmic, and program-trading execution.
• Fixed income — government, corporate, and other debt instruments across major markets.
• Foreign exchange — spot, forwards, and related currency products.
• Derivatives — listed futures and options alongside OTC derivative instruments.
• Financing and prime services — securities financing and prime-brokerage-style capabilities for eligible institutions.

Post-trade, settlement, and reporting

ZagTrader's back-office capabilities are designed to carry an order through its full lifecycle after execution against BofA Securities. Fills returned over FIX are captured in real time and flow into trade confirmation, allocation, and booking workflows without manual re-keying, keeping the front office and operations in sync.

The platform supports allocation of block executions across accounts, generation of settlement instructions, and reconciliation against custodian, prime broker, and counterparty records. Positions and exposures update alongside live trading activity, and corporate-action events affecting held instruments are processed so that books and records stay accurate. Audit-ready records and configurable reporting support the trade reporting and record-keeping obligations relevant to the markets and jurisdictions in which a desk operates. Bringing execution and post-trade processing onto one platform reduces hand-offs and the operational breaks that come from stitching multiple systems together.

Why route to BofA Securities through ZagTrader

Routing to BofA Securities through ZagTrader lets an institution operate a leading global counterparty from within the same front-to-back platform it uses for the rest of its broker panel and market connectivity. Rather than maintaining a separate workflow for each destination, the desk standardizes order capture, compliance, execution, and operations on one multi-asset OMS/EMS — with BofA Securities as one of many reachable destinations.

• One multi-asset OMS/EMS for BofA Securities and your wider broker and venue network.
• Standards-based FIX connectivity with DMA and electronic execution where supported.
• Pre-trade compliance and risk controls applied before orders are routed.
• Integrated post-trade flow from allocation through settlement and reconciliation.
• Audit-ready records and reporting aligned to your operating jurisdictions.