Connect to EFG Hermes with ZagTrader

Who is EFG Hermes?

EFG Hermes is one of the most recognized financial-services groups originating in the Middle East and North Africa, with a heritage in Egyptian and regional capital markets that spans several decades. Its securities-brokerage franchise is widely regarded as a leading gateway to MENA equities, and the wider group is active in investment banking, research, asset management, and the broader markets that connect regional and international investors.

What sets EFG Hermes apart for institutional order flow is its frontier- and emerging-markets footprint. Beyond its core Arab markets, the firm has built a reputation for providing access to and coverage of harder-to-reach frontier exchanges, supported by on-the-ground sales and research. For asset managers, hedge funds, banks, and brokers that want disciplined execution across MENA and frontier names, EFG Hermes is a long-standing counterparty — and reaching it through a stable, well-monitored connection is exactly the role ZagTrader is built to fill.

How ZagTrader connects and routes to EFG Hermes

ZagTrader provides institutional connectivity to EFG Hermes through FIX sessions that are established and tested so that orders, executions, and acknowledgements travel over resilient, monitored links. The same connectivity supports direct market access (DMA) workflows, letting desks send orders through EFG Hermes to the regional markets and liquidity it serves while keeping 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 operate from a unified blotter, apply pre-trade compliance and risk checks, and use order-routing logic to direct flow appropriately before it leaves 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 for order entry, execution reports, and acknowledgements.
• Direct market access (DMA) order flow with full blotter visibility.
• 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.

Markets and assets accessible through EFG Hermes

EFG Hermes is best known as a route into MENA and frontier equities, and routing through it via ZagTrader's multi-asset platform lets a desk reach that regional breadth from one consistent workflow rather than maintaining separate tools per market. The firm's coverage has historically extended across Egypt, the GCC and wider Gulf markets, the Levant and North Africa, and a range of frontier and emerging exchanges where local access and execution expertise are difficult to replicate. The specific markets, instruments, and services available always depend on a client's own agreements and onboarding with the firm.

• MENA equities — cash equities across Egyptian, Gulf, and North African markets.
• Frontier and emerging markets — access to harder-to-reach regional exchanges.
• Listed derivatives — regional futures and options where available for hedging.
• Fixed income — regional debt instruments under the relevant client agreements.
• Funds and other instruments available subject to onboarding with the firm.

Post-trade, settlement, and reporting

Execution is only the first step in the trade lifecycle, and ZagTrader is built to carry flow routed to EFG Hermes 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 trades, allocations, and positions stay consistent without manual re-keying — an advantage that matters in markets with varied local conventions and settlement cycles.

The platform supports trade confirmation and allocation, generation of settlement instructions, and reconciliation against counterparty, custodian, and clearing records. Settlement itself takes place through each market's infrastructure and the client's own custody and clearing arrangements across the relevant MENA and frontier venues; 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 EFG Hermes through ZagTrader

Routing to EFG Hermes 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 market or function. A single OMS/EMS blotter spans EFG Hermes alongside other supported brokers and venues, so traders manage their full book — global and regional — in one place, and operations work from one consistent set of records.

For desks targeting MENA and frontier markets, that consolidation is especially valuable: the same workflow, controls, and post-trade flow extend to regional flow without bespoke tooling per country. FIX connectivity and drop-copy reconciliation give desks confidence that what was sent, executed, and booked all agree, while 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 EFG Hermes and beyond.

• One multi-asset OMS/EMS for EFG Hermes and additional brokers and venues.
• FIX and DMA connectivity into MENA and frontier markets with drop-copy reconciliation.
• 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.