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Quazar is an AI-native FIX Fabric: a high-performance platform for routing, transforming, and managing FIX connectivity. It replaces fragile point-to-point FIX infrastructure and expensive fixed networks with a single intelligent fabric that you configure in minutes, not months.

Both sides of the flow. Buy-side firms use Quazar to connect directly to their brokers without paying per-connection network fees. Sell-side firms and brokers use it to aggregate, normalise, and manage hundreds of inbound client sessions through one platform.

Quazar is built, supported, and operated by Quod Financial, an owner-managed trading technology company with over two decades of FIX connectivity and trading systems experience. It is written in C++ for performance and reliability.

No. Quazar is proprietary software, built and maintained by Quod Financial. It is free for buy-side firms for up to 10 inbound connections, with a growing library of pre-built transformation templates included.

Pass-through, fan-out, funnel-in, many-to-many, conditional routing, failover routing, market data fan-out, and drop-copy. Rules are built visually or with AI assistance, and applied through a REST API with no restarts.

FIX version conversion (4.4 to 5.0 and back), tag remapping, value defaulting, symbol suffixing, message truncation, conditional logic, and regulatory enrichment for RegNMS, MiFID II, and CAT. Transformations run as configurable rules with reusable functions, so common logic is written once and applied across connections.

Quazar runs a session pool built on a hardened QuickFIX engine with no hard limit on session count. It supports SSL, sequence number management through the GUI, configuration rollback, and message replay from database, file, or memory.

Quazar sustains approximately 2,500 messages per second with full message persistence enabled. Performance without persistence is higher; contact us for benchmarks against your specific workload.

FIX 4.x and 5.0, including cross-version conversion within a single flow. Custom dialects and non-standard tags are handled through the transformation layer.

No. Routing and transformation rules are created through a visual rule builder or described in plain language to the built-in AI, which generates the configuration for you. Everything is also available programmatically through the REST API.

Pre-built, validated transformation and connectivity configurations for common networks, brokers, and venue specifications. Load a template, adjust it to your spec, and go live. The template library grows continuously.

Quazar is free for buy-side firms for up to 10 inbound connections. For sell-side firms and larger deployments, pricing is straightforward and significantly more cost-effective than traditional per-connection bridge fees. Contact us for a quote.

Because connectivity should not cost hundreds of dollars per connection per month. Free buy-side access means firms on both sides of a flow can connect Quazar to Quazar directly, removing fixed-network fees entirely.

The full platform: routing, transformation, session management, monitoring, and templates. Download it, run it, plug in your own AI models, or build your own MCP integrations on top.

On-premise in your environment or cloud-hosted. Either way, Quazar is maintained by Quod Financial, so upgrades, fixes, and template updates are handled for you.

Yes. Quod Financial can operate Quazar for you end to end, including session management, counterparty onboarding, and monitoring.

Yes. All routing and transformation changes are applied through the REST API or GUI with no restarts. Configuration rollback is built in.

Start from a template or build the mapping with the AI rule builder, then validate it with AI-driven automated certification and testing. What traditionally takes weeks of manual FIX certification is compressed to hours.

Quazar ships with Grafana-based dashboards for sessions, message flow, and system health. A full order grid interface is on the roadmap. Message replay is available from database, file, or memory for investigation and recovery.

AI is built into the core workflow, not bolted on. It generates routing and transformation rules from plain-language descriptions, drives automated certification and testing, and assists with spec analysis when onboarding new counterparties. The core engine is available via a REST API (for all operations), which allows an AI agent to interact with it.

Yes. Quazar supports "bring-your-own-LLM", so you can connect your preferred model. It also supports MCP, allowing your own agents and tools to interact with the platform directly.

No. Messages are processed and stored within your deployment. Quazar does not transmit your message content to Quod Financial or anyone else.

All FIX sessions support SSL/TLS. Access to configuration is controlled through the API and GUI, and every change is auditable with rollback.

Yes. The transformation layer enriches messages for RegNMS, MiFID II, and CAT requirements, and full message persistence and replay support audit and reporting obligations.

Expanded template packs for major brokers and networks, a full order grid interface, and instrument identifier mapping with a cached instrument dictionary for automatic symbology translation. The template library and AI capabilities expand continuously.