Event contracts as a new asset class, integrated via FIX.

Vinfotech provides the underlying technology platform that allows a brokerage to add event contracts as a regulated asset class alongside its existing offering. The platform comprises a matching engine, automated market maker, order book, and settlement layer, a FIX gateway, a surveillance subsystem, and an AI Market Operations layer offered as a managed service. The platform operates under the brokerage's brand, domain, and regulatory authorisation.

The platform is integrated through standard institutional patterns. Member firms reach the matching engine through a FIX 4.4 or 5.0 SP2 gateway. Pre-trade risk hooks integrate with the brokerage's existing risk system. Trade, order, and settlement event streams are exposed for ingestion into the brokerage's surveillance, back-office, and regulatory reporting infrastructure. The integration sits alongside the brokerage's existing systems rather than replacing them.

FIX 4.4 and FIX 5.0 SP2 for member-firm order entry, market data, and drop-copy. REST and WebSocket endpoints are also available for integration patterns that do not require FIX. Connectivity follows the same patterns the brokerage is already operating across other regulated trading venues.

The event-contract venue operates under the brokerage's existing regulatory authorisation. The brokerage is the regulated entity and the venue of record. Vinfotech is the infrastructure provider and does not appear as the operating venue to regulators, member firms, or end participants.

The platform's pre-trade risk gate exposes integration hooks that allow per-firm exposure limits, per-account position limits, and message-rate controls to be enforced from the brokerage's existing risk infrastructure. The platform's own risk controls operate alongside these external controls, providing a defence-in-depth approach rather than replacing the brokerage's risk system.

Member firms reach the platform through new FIX sessions established for the event-contract venue, which is operationally identical to onboarding access to any other new regulated venue. Existing FIX session-management infrastructure at the member firm and at the brokerage applies without modification.

Position-by-position settlement records and aggregate settlement event streams are exposed through the platform's reporting APIs. These integrate with the brokerage's existing back-office, clearing, and regulatory reporting infrastructure through standard institutional patterns. Settlement is deterministic, atomic, and idempotent, which simplifies reconciliation against existing back-office records.

The standard structure is a platform license combined with ongoing maintenance, with separately scoped engagements for custom integration work. The platform license includes ongoing maintenance, release management, monitoring, and incident response. The AI Market Operations layer is offered as a managed service alongside the platform license. For the broader operating model, see the white-label platform page. Specific commercial terms are defined per engagement.

No. Vinfotech does not operate event-contract venues. The brokerage is the venue operator and the regulated entity. Vinfotech operates the underlying platform infrastructure and, as an option, the platform operations function, monitoring, release management, incident response, and AI-driven market operations, under a service-level agreement. The venue itself remains the brokerage's.

Event contracts share substantial operational structure with traditional derivatives, order book matching, pre-trade risk, settlement, surveillance, reporting, but differ in key respects. Contracts resolve in finite horizons against external sources of truth rather than mark-to-market against continuous price series. Liquidity profiles at market open are often thinner, which is why the platform pairs the order book with an automated market maker. Contract families include binary, scalar, and multi-outcome structures rather than the standardised contract specifications of futures and options.

The brokerage solution is designed for established brokerages, prop trading platforms, multi-asset trading venues, and trading-as-a-service providers operating under existing regulatory authorisations. The engagement model assumes the customer has existing FIX infrastructure, an established risk and surveillance posture, and operational maturity around member-firm onboarding. It is not designed for self-serve onboarding or for operators without an existing trading-platform operation.

When retail clients ask about prediction markets, the regulated product behind that interest is the exchange-listed event contract. Offering event contracts through a regulated venue is how a brokerage answers that client demand within its compliance framework.

Implementation typically proceeds in four phases: architecture review and scoping, connectivity and sandbox testing, pre-trade risk and back-office integration, and phased member-firm rollout to production. The duration and effort of each phase depend on the brokerage's existing infrastructure and the scope of any custom integration work. Specific timelines are scoped per engagement rather than published as standard.