ipushpull Trade Capture and Booking: From Chat to Booked Trade in Near Real-time

Traders & brokers spend much of every day in chat because that is where markets move. Trade tickets live somewhere else. The distance between those two worlds wastes time, invites errors and threatens the five or fifteen-minute MiFID II reporting clock. ipushpull Trade Capture and Booking removes that distance by turning each deal typed in chat into a validated, booked and reported trade within seconds.

What Trade Capture and Booking Does

Trade Capture & Booking is an ipushpull solution that automatically captures, interprets, enriches and books trades from chat into the systems that matter (Exchange BLOCK entry, ETRM systems, OMS, risk, reporting).

Traders & brokers stay in their native chat, while ipushpull does the heavy lifting behind the scenes.

Chat messages containing trades can be sent to ipushpull the moment a trade is done. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) powered AI fills a draft ticket, referencing previous examples, and a pop-up then appears so the trader or broker can check the draft and confirm with a click. The model learns desk slang and counterparty quirks without long training cycles, so next time it sees something similar, it knows better how to draft the ticket.

A demonstration of raw chat messages being transformed into fully booked trades.

Once confirmed, configurable rules add missing context such as counterparty codes, product identifiers, venues, fee schedules and internal tags, and even check the trade to make sure there are no obvious errors using statistical reasoning. ipushpull then sends the final data to the right destination, whether that is an exchange block entry API, an energy trading and risk system, an order management system or a regulatory gateway. An end-to-end audit trail records every step.

Proof in Production

An energy trading desk has already processed more than eighteen thousand OTC gas trades and achieved accuracy above ninety percent, eliminating manual re-keying of data.

A global inter-dealer broker now meets the MiFID II fifteen-minute reporting deadline and has shifted staff time toward client work that grows revenue.

Other brokers and corporates use the identical workflow in different asset classes with very little configuration changes, such as equity options or interest rate swaps.

Benefits to Traders

• Better accuracy: AI does the heavy lifting and humans provide the quick confirmation so fat finger mistakes disappear. Just think what damage a single error on a trade can cause to your reputation.

• Time saved: Manual ticket entry disappears, and dashboards surface only the few exceptions that need attention.

• Five-minute compliance: Automated timestamping and direct reporting protect firms from fines and reputational damage.

A broking desk with five people and three thousand trades a month cuts roughly twenty hours of input work and lowers booking errors by eighty per cent. The same desk now hits every regulatory deadline, which removes twenty percent of the previous missed submissions.

Common Use Cases

Many firms already hold the right data and run solid platforms, yet still struggle to move information into the hands of the people who need it. ipushpull often fills that gap, acting as either the first mile or the last mile of connectivity. To find out more about ipushpull's trade capture and booking solutions, click here.

First mile
Data might sit in an older application that never exposes an external link, or it may arrive in an unstructured file that no one can parse at speed. When that happens, ipushpull pushes the content into the cloud in a clean, standard shape so other systems or teams can work with it straight away.

Last mile
Sometimes the roadblock is the final hop into the tools your clients and desks already trust. ipushpull streams that same clean data directly into spreadsheets, chat platforms such as Symphony or Slack, or any internal blotter you rely on. Users stay inside familiar screens and see live information with no extra software.

Streamlined pre-trade workflow

An investment manager in FICC replaced a manual chain in which traders copied portfolio-manager instructions into chat, negotiated across several dealers, then keyed prices back into internal systems. ipushpull now captures the instruction, routes it to dealers and books the result automatically. The buy side gains speed and trims operational risk.

Distributing bond axes

A fixed-income desk at a UK bank publishes live bond axes with executable prices straight into a Symphony chat. Clients click once to trade, and a straight-through process updates the bank’s systems behind the scenes. What used to involve emails and copy-paste now happens in one chat window with real-time data.

Real-time pricing for basket trades

Handling basket and list trades once meant emailing vast spreadsheets, reformatting the lines for pricing, then copying the result back for the client. Customers who use ipushpull let clients push the list from Excel, let the platform map every line automatically and return prices to the same sheet within minutes. The desk prices more trades each day, cuts manual effort and removes keystroke risk.

The future of trade workflows

As pre-trade technology matures, the goal is simple: let machines handle the robotic steps and let people focus on market insight and client ideas. Achieving that future demands breaking down legacy silos, standardising data flows and shrinking manual touch points. ipushpull is built for that journey, combining live data, collaboration and interoperability to raise efficiency and lower risk. 

Why Traders Pick ipushpull

Deployment is fast because onboarding is no-code and largely configuration-driven, meaning it takes days, not months, to implement. Each client instance keeps data separate and secure. The platform is extensible through plug ins for chatbots, Excel add-ins, data warehouses, client analytics and alerting, so firms can grow the solution over time. If you would like to discuss your capture requirements further, get in touch.