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Originally published: August 2007
Original link:
http://www.advancedtrading.com/galleries/showGallery.jhtml?galleryID=20
UBS Investment Bank boasts the world's largest
trading floor, located in Stamford, Connecticut.
With 1,400 seats, 2,000 computers and 5,000 monitors, the
103,000 square-foot facility is noted by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest single
trading floor in the world. The floor is home to traders, sales traders, quants, technology support, executives and others among its various
groups, which include fixed income, commodities, currencies, money
markets, derivatives, equities, international trading, algorithmic
trading, direct market access, program trading and more. UBS manages more
than 1,689,000 transactions a day. The firm deals in almost every asset
class and trades across almost every region. The photo gallery below will
take you through the mammoth trading floor, offering both big-picture
photos to illustrate the size of the floor as well as close-ups of some of
the trading desks to offer more detail on the technology UBS uses.
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Will Sterling, Head of Global
Direct Execution, UBS, stands on the catwalk looking down on the
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 The equities group takes up 600 seats, 110
are traders. The fixed income and equities portions of the floor are
separated by two rows of technical support staff, who are positioned
in the center of the floor so as to be easily accessible to all
traders and their teams.
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UBS' trading floor, located in Stamford, Conn., has 1,400 seats
managing more than 1,689,000 transactions a day.
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Will Sterling, Head of Global Direct Execution, UBS, stands amid
UBS' 1,400-seat multi-asset trading floor. |
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The UBS trading floor is the same size as 26 tennis courts or two
football fields. The Guinness Book of World Records has recognized the
column-free trading floor as the largest in the world. |
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The floor houses more than 2,000 computers
with more than 5,000 monitors. |
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This photo shows almost the entire trading floor. The Fixed
Income Group is shown to the near left of the row of filing cabinets.
To the near right of the row of filing cabinets is the CCMM
(Commodities, Currencies and Money Markets) Group. The far end of the
photo is the 600 seat Equities Group. |
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This photo shows the vast 1400 seat trading floor which includes
commodities, currencies, money markets, equities, derivatives and
fixed income. The floor has an arched roof that rises about 40 feet above the
floor, freeing it of columns or walls. |
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The Fixed Income Group includes the following desks: high-grade
syndicate, prime brokerage, credit delta, CDO, high-yield sales and
trading, structured product distribution, structured trading,
investment grade, swaps, derivatives and government trading. |
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The trading floor is home to sales and
trading, operations, and technology. The open architecture design of
the floor promotes integration across the functions. There is
virtually no line between the business, technology and management. |
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FX Trader for Hedge Fund Distribution ---- This trader's
workstation is comprised of a BT trading turret and four screens that
depict (l. to r.) chats and Bloomberg data; client and interdesk chats
via MindAlign; OneTool, a deal-entry blotter; and the price ticker. |
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Algorithmic Trading
UBS creates its own algorithms, which are used internally and are
offered to clients. Traders can access any dark pools to which UBS'
dark book, PIN (Price Improvement Network), connects. |
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Fixed Income
Trading
This trader trades fixed-income rates derivatives at UBS. He depends
on three double-height screens. The right screen shows the...
trader's market data from Bloomberg
as well as ECNs, including BrokerTec, eSpeed and TradeWeb. The middle
screen is used for e-mail and the firm's internally developed instant
messaging system. The left screen features a DataSynapse grid-based
application for valuations.
The Fixed Income Group occupies more than 400 seats,
including traders and other support and IT functions. |
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Energy Trading
UBS has a 16-foot-wide satellite on the roof which provides current
weather statistics to the Energy Business. They also have two
meteorologists on staff to predict whether the weather will affect the
energy market. |
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This is part of the CCMM (Currencies, Commodities and Money
Market Group.) |
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Internal Video Chat System by MindAlign |
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