Connect to Cantor Fitzgerald with ZagTrader

Who is Cantor Fitzgerald?

Cantor Fitzgerald is a global financial-services firm headquartered in New York and active in financial centers around the world. It is widely recognized as a broker-dealer with a long-standing franchise in fixed income, where the firm has historically been a major player in government and other debt markets, alongside a presence in equities and other capital-markets activities. Over its long history the firm has built a reputation as an institutional intermediary, providing brokerage, market-making, and execution services to professional clients.

For asset managers, hedge funds, brokers, and banks, Cantor Fitzgerald is an established execution counterparty across the products it covers. Its breadth in fixed income and equities makes it a relevant destination for a range of institutional order flow. Reaching that counterparty through a stable, certified, and well-monitored connection is a practical requirement for any desk that routes orders to it, and that is the role ZagTrader is built to fill.

How ZagTrader connects and routes to Cantor Fitzgerald

ZagTrader provides institutional connectivity to Cantor Fitzgerald through certified FIX sessions, established and tested so that order flow, executions, and acknowledgements travel over resilient, monitored links. The same connectivity supports direct market access (DMA) workflows, allowing desks to send orders through Cantor Fitzgerald to the venues and liquidity it provides while retaining full control and visibility on the trading blotter.

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.

• Certified FIX sessions for order entry, execution reports, and acknowledgements.
• Direct market access (DMA) order flow with full blotter visibility.
• 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 Cantor Fitzgerald

As a global financial-services firm and broker-dealer with particular depth in fixed income, Cantor Fitzgerald offers execution and liquidity across a range of asset classes. Routing through it via ZagTrader's multi-asset platform lets a desk reach that coverage from a single, consistent workflow rather than maintaining separate tools per product line. The instruments and services available always depend on a client's own agreements and onboarding with the firm.

• Fixed income — government and other debt instruments, a core part of the firm's franchise.
• Equities — cash equities and related execution services.
• Listed derivatives — futures and options for hedging and risk management, where offered.
• Other capital-markets instruments available under the relevant client agreements.

Post-trade, settlement, and reporting

Execution is only the first step in the trade lifecycle, and ZagTrader is built to carry flow routed to Cantor Fitzgerald 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 are kept consistent without manual re-keying.

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 Cantor Fitzgerald through ZagTrader

Routing to Cantor Fitzgerald 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 Cantor Fitzgerald alongside other supported brokers and venues, so traders manage their full book in one place and operations work from one consistent set of records.

Certified FIX 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, making ZagTrader a durable foundation for desks that route institutional flow to Cantor Fitzgerald and beyond.

• One multi-asset OMS/EMS for Cantor Fitzgerald and additional brokers and venues.
• Certified FIX and DMA 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.
• Scales to more counterparties, asset classes, and markets without re-platforming.