Use the following general and market-specific best practices and implementation guides to learn more about how to optimize specific areas of your CTM service.
General
General
| # | Name | Description | Added On |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 CTM: Supplying Other Reporting Data: Best Practices | Describes how to supply and retrive other reporting data in conformance with MiFID II regulations. | Aug 13, 2018 |
| 2 |
ITP Cross-Product: Research Commissions: Best Practices | This document describes the process of applying research amounts on all, some, or none of investment manager's allocations and broker/dealer's confirmations for the CTM, OASYS, and TradeSuite ID services. | Mar 12, 2020 |
| 3 |
CTM: Matching Time Deposits: Best Practices | Describes best practices for matching time deposits in the CTM service even when there is no registered ISIN and no secondary market. | Jun 25, 2018 |
| 4 |
CTM: Best Practices | Describes best practices for clients who trade in the debt and equity asset classes. | May 30, 2018 |
| 5 |
CTM: Automatic Confirmation Creation with Proration: Best Practices | Describes how the CTM service can automatically create, prorate, and truncate confirmations for broker/dealers. | Jan 21, 2020 |
| 6 |
CTM: Equity Trade Commissions: Best Practices | Describes how the CTM service handles equity trade commissions. | Feb 08, 2019 |
| 7 |
CTM: Fixed Income: Best Practices | Describes best practices, with examples, for fixed income trades in the CTM service. | Apr 07, 2020 |
| 8 |
CTM: Omnibus Block Settlement: Best Practices | Describes the best practices for clients using omnibus block settlement. | Oct 31, 2019 |
| 9 |
CTM: View Only Broker: Implementation Guide and Procedures | This guide is for investment managers and broker/dealers. It describes how to use the view only broker feature in the CTM service. | Apr 24, 2020 |
Market-Specific
Market-Specific
| # | Name | Description | Added On |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
CTM: CREST Settlement Messages: Implementation Guide New! | This document describes how to supply Place of Trade information for CREST-settling trades. | Jun 24, 2020 |
| 2 |
CTM: Fees and Taxes: Best Practices New! | Describes marketplace fees and taxes and how to use them in the CTM service. | Jun 23, 2020 |
| 3 |
CTM: Trading Southbound Stock Connect Equities into Hong Kong: Best Practices | This document highlights best practices for Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises (WFOE) that trade through the | Mar 05, 2019 |
| 4 |
CTM: Settlement Location: Best Practices and Recommendations | Recommends how to use the CTM service to reduce settlement exceptions based on settlement location. | Nov 07, 2018 |
| 5 |
CTM: Trading China Stock Connect Equities: Best Practices | Describes best practices for trading China-A equity shares through both the Shanghai and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect program to achieve same-day affirmation. | Jun 14, 2019 |
| 6 |
CTM: Singapore Exchange Identification of On- and Off-Exchange Trades: Best Practices | Describes best practices for clients to comply with Singapore Exchange (SGX) requirements. | Aug 16, 2018 |