About TIL

Background

Created by a consortium of international banks, Trade Ideas Limited (“TIL”), provides the world’s leading technology hub for the distribution of trade ideas between investment banks and brokers and their institutional clients.

TIL provides a secure, low cost central utility that enables the simple exchange of trade ideas between sell and buy-side firms. TIL’s vision was to establish a facility that can be used by as many participants as possible, irrespective of their size, location or systems usage.

Since its launch in November 2005 usage of the service has grown enormously. Internationally it now has some 400 participants using the service. On the buy-side these range from hedge funds and “prop” trading desks, through to traditional long-only money managers. Author firms inputting ideas range from “bulge bracket” brokers with hundreds of individual authors operating globally, through to niche specialists and regional experts with just a handful of authors. To see a list of contributing brokers go to the Information Centre.

TIL was formed by and is still owned equally by a consortium of investment banks (Citi, Credit Suisse, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch). The shareholders have consistently invested in the service since the company was formed and this commitment has led to the establishment of the industry’s leading technology hub for trade ideas. In order to build on this success and to provide a strong platform on which to base future expansion TIL decided in 2008 to commission the development of a new RDC. This new platform went live in the Spring of 2009 and will be operated by TIL’s technology partner MBA Systems.