The BIDS ATS is open to all sell-side firms and their institutional clients, subject to basic credit and regulatory requirements.
BIDS Trading is a Broker-Sponsored Model
BIDS Trading supports a broker-sponsored model. This means the following:
- Your buy-side clients will direct 100% of their commission dollars to the sponsoring broker-dealers of their choice.
- BIDS Trading will never appear on the buy-side’s commission run.
- Any broker-dealer can become a sponsor in BIDS – A direct connection to the BIDS ATS is not required.
Sponsoring Brokers
*MWVBE Certified Broker
- Academy Securities, Inc.*
- American Veterans Group, PBC*
- B. Riley FBR, Inc.
- Bancroft Capital, LLC*
- Bank of America/Merrill Lynch
- Barclays
- Blaylock Van LLC*
- BMO Capital Markets
- Cabrera Capital Markets, LLC*
- Canaccord Genuity Inc.
- Capis*
- CastleOak Securities*
- Citi
- CLSA Americas, LLC
- Cowen & Co.
- Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc.
- Drexel Hamilton*
- FBN Securities, Inc.
- Great Pacific Securities*
- Guggenheim Securities, LLC
- Guzman & Company*
- H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC
- Instinet, LLC
- Itau BBA Securities
- J.P. Morgan
- Jefferies
- JonesTrading
- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
- Kepler Capital Markets Inc.
- KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc.
- Loop Capital Markets*
- Mischler Financial Group, Inc.*
- Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co.
- Morgan Stanley
- National Bank of Canada Financial
- North South Capital LLC*
- Penserra Securities*
- Piper Sandler & Co.
- Redburn (USA) LLC
- Roberts & Ryan Inc.*
- Rosenblatt Securities
- Roth MKM
- Samuel A. Ramirez & Co.*
- San Blas Securities
- Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC*
- Stern Brothers & Co*
- Stifel Nicolaus
- StoneX Financial
- Strategas Securities
- Sturdivant & Co., Inc.*
- Susquehanna Financial
- Telsey Advisory Group*
- The Vertical Group
- Themis Trading LLC
- Tigress Financial Partners LLC*
- UBS
- Virtu Financial
- Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
- Westminster Research
- William Blair & Co.
For more information on our sponsorship model, download our Sponsorship Fact Sheet.
To become a sponsoring broker, please contact us at info@bidstrading.com.
