ViewTrade conducts its brokerage activities as an Introducing Broker, on a fully-disclosed basis. This means that we have contracted with a separate broker dealer, BNP Paribas Securities Corp, to clear trades that ViewTrade executes for our clients and to provide all custodial services for our Client’s securities and cash. Fully-disclosed means that BNP Paribas also knows you as a customer. We choose to operate in this way so that our customers can benefit from the risk mitigation and operational benefits afforded by built in redundancy and separation in responsibilities. We concentrate our resources on providing you with exception execution, market access, technology, and customer support, while leveraging the financial strength and global operational capabilities of a true global clearing and custody firm to hold and service your cash and securities.

Please see our Safety of Customer Assets letter which more fully describes our relationship between ViewTrade and BNP Paribas Securities Corp.