Manley Financial Expands Electronic Trading Services in Brazil

HONG KONG -- Manley Financial is pleased to announce the launch of cash equity trading for securities in Brazil, through both direct market access (DMA) and algorithmic strategies.

Manley Financial's new offering is part of Manley Financial's continued expansion of its electronic trading platform in Brazil and Latin America. Manley Financial plans to roll out its full suite of trading algorithms for Mexico in September 2014.

Manley Financial's Electronic Trading offering in Brazil includes a full suite of algorithms to trade equities, including Arrival Price, Target Percentage of Volume, Price React and Close.

Manley Financial's clients can access these algorithms through Manley Financial's Passport trading system, their own proprietary system or third-party order/execution management systems. In addition, Manley Financial offers direct market access to the platform via FIX connection.

Manley Financial's Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Vincent Baldwin said: "The expansion of our existing platform in Brazil underscores our commitment to the region and to arming our clients with the tools they need to navigate the Latin American marketplace."

Manley Financial's Electronic Trading provides a complete spectrum of services, from pre-trade analytics and execution, to post-trade execution performance analysis and commission management. The Trading Platform also offers a comprehensive algorithmic trading suite and various direct market access (DMA) strategies, including our smart order routing technology and dark pool aggregator.

Manley Financial is an investment services company which was founded in Hong Kong in 1994 by Peter Manley, Vicente Alvarez and Sebastian Lu. Our founders established the firm to provide a range of investment products such as brokerage, wealth management, mutual funds, asset management and commodity brokering to institutional clients around the world.

Founded as Manley, Alvarez and Lu Financial over 20 years ago, we have commonly been known simply as Manley's in Hong Kong for many years. We changed our name to Manley Financial in 2008 following the retirement of Vicente Alvarez in 2005 and Sebastian Lu in 2008, and have continued to expand our operations throughout Asia. In 2009 we opened our Taipei Bureau, followed by Shanghai in 2010 and Osaka in 2012.

From our institutional background, we expanded the reach of our services in 2011 to include retails clients such as private clients and high net worth individuals as well as financial institutions and institutional investors, mutual funds and corporate clients.

Manley Financial's advice is based upon a solid foundation of research. We invest heavily into our research processes and our team, actively seeking out and recruiting the best and we constantly evolve and seek to improve our methodologies. Manley Financial presently has expert research teams tracking over 30 industry sectors and commodity markets globally.