On a winter morning in Limassol, the screens in EXANTE’s office begin to glow before sunrise, lighting up maps of markets from Chicago to Hong Kong. Somewhere in that lattice of charts and order books, a family office in Warsaw is hunting for underpriced Asian equities, while a hedge fund in London quietly searches for misaligned currency pairs. All of it runs through a single multi‑currency account, plugged into dozens of exchanges and more than a million financial instruments. And yet the most consequential decisions often begin not with an order ticket, but with a question: out of this vast universe, what is worth paying attention to today?
That is the problem EXANTE’s newest feature, Omni Screener, is built to solve. Launched as the firm enters its 15th year, Omni Screener is a next‑generation discovery tool within EXANTE’s proprietary platform, designed to help professional and institutional clients sift through a multi‑asset universe and surface trading ideas in seconds rather than hours. For a broker that has long differentiated itself by combining cutting‑edge technology with named relationship managers for every client, the feature crystallizes a broader bet: that the future of finance will belong to those who can use machines to narrow the noise, without losing the human judgment that makes information actionable.
“Technology should make finance more human, not less,” says CTO Richard Forss. “Omni Screener is about giving our clients the clarity they need in a world of too much data—and then backing that clarity with real people who understand what they’re trying to achieve.” The new tool is not just another mere widget on a crowded interface, but a focal point for how EXANTE sees its role in a rewired financial system.
A Pivotal Moment for Prime Brokerage
EXANTE’s decision to invest in a sophisticated, platform‑integrated screener comes at a moment when prime brokerage is being reshaped by both technology and geopolitics. Once the quiet plumbing of institutional finance, prime brokerage has become a contested frontier for fintech firms racing to offer cheaper, faster, and more automated access to markets that are increasingly fragmented and interconnected. Low‑latency infrastructure and regulatory complexity have turned what used to be a relationship business into a technology arms race.
From its Maltese headquarters and offices across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, EXANTE has spent more than a decade building the infrastructure side of that equation. Its proprietary platform provides direct access to over 50 global markets and more than 2 million instruments through a single, multi‑currency account, with desktop, web, and mobile interfaces, as well as an API for custom strategies. That foundation allows a hedge fund or family office to move across asset classes and geographies without juggling multiple brokers, something EXANTE frequently highlights as central to its “by professionals, for professionals” ethos.
But as Forss points out, scale brings a paradox. “You can give a client access to 1.4 million instruments,” she says. “The danger is that you’re also giving them 2 million ways to get distracted.” It is precisely that risk that EXANTE’s research arm has been flagging in its economic insight work, including its “Winners and Losers in a Changing World” report presented with KPMG and the Cyprus International Businesses Association in 2025, which argued that a “rewired” global economy demands more selective, informed portfolio construction. In that light, Omni Screener is EXANTE’s attempt to turn abundance into something more like focus.
Omni Screener and the Human in the Loop
At first glance, Omni Screener resembles the screeners that have long been a staple of equity research terminals: a way to filter a universe of securities according to user‑defined criteria. What EXANTE is trying to do differently is to adapt that concept to the realities of a multi‑asset prime brokerage platform and to the needs of professional and institutional users who do not want yet another siloed tool. The feature sits directly inside the EXANTE platform, drawing on the same live data that powers trading and portfolio views, so that clients can move from discovery to execution without changing context.
Although the public description of the tool remains high‑level, the branding, “Omni,” and the firm’s broader positioning suggest that it is designed for cross‑market, cross‑asset screening rather than being limited to a single class such as equities or FX. In practice, that likely means clients can scan for opportunities across different instruments and geographies at once, using criteria that matter to institution‑level strategies: volatility, liquidity, sector exposure, perhaps even correlations or event‑driven filters. For Forss, the key is the way the tool interacts with EXANTE’s human‑centric service model. “Omni Screener gives our clients a sharper lens,” he says. “But the conversation with their relationship manager is often where that lens gets pointed at the right part of the landscape.”
That relationship‑driven overlay is where EXANTE’s philosophy diverges from much of the fintech pack. Each professional or institutional client has a dedicated relationship manager, backed by a multilingual support team that aims to resolve most queries on first contact. Unlike mass‑market brokers that steer users toward bots and ticket systems, EXANTE treats access to a named person as a core part of its value proposition. In the context of Omni Screener, that means the firm is not only offering a powerful way to sort instruments, but also promising that a human can help interpret what those results mean for a specific strategy, risk profile, or regulatory constraint.
Fifteen Years, a New Lens on Markets
EXANTE’s launch of Omni Screener is also a statement about how it wants to mark its 15th anniversary. For a privately held broker founded in 2011, surviving and scaling through a decade of post‑crisis regulation, geopolitical shocks, and technological upheaval is itself a kind of stress test. The firm framed the milestone as “fifteen years of turning ideas into action,” underscoring its evolution from a niche, technology‑driven broker into a global prime brokerage brand regulated in multiple jurisdictions, including CySEC, the SFC, the MFSA, and the FCA.
In early 2025, EXANTE reimagined its desktop platform, describing the update as a “transformation” that made the interface cleaner, more responsive, and easier to navigate for active traders. Omni Screener arrives as the next logical step: not just changing how the platform looks and behaves, but changing how clients see the markets within it. “It’s one thing to give clients speed and stability,” Forss says. “Omni Screener is about giving them perspective—helping them see patterns and possibilities they might otherwise miss.”
The firm’s public presence reinforces this blend of technology and perspective. EXANTE presents itself as a place where “cutting‑edge tech meets a client‑first approach,” pointing to industry awards for its multi‑asset trading platform and to recognition such as an FT Diversity Award for Product or Service of the Year 2024 and regional “Best Investment Company” titles. The message is that, for EXANTE, innovation is not only about adding more markets or instruments, but about designing tools that make a rewired financial world more intelligible to the humans operating within it.
Looking ahead, EXANTE casts Omni Screener as both a product and a principle. On the product side, the firm aims to refine the feature in step with how its clients actually use it, incorporating feedback from family offices, hedge funds, and other professional users as they screen across the platform’s multi‑asset universe. On the principle side, Forss describes it as a template for future development: “If a new feature doesn’t help a client cut through complexity, it doesn’t belong on the platform,” he says. “The goal is not to impress people with how much data we have, but to empower them with the specific data they really need.”
The question facing EXANTE now is whether this mix of powerful tools and personal contact can scale without losing the intimacy that has become its calling card. The firm’s answer, at least for now, is to double down on both sides: more automation behind the scenes, more research to frame a rewired global economy, more discovery features like Omni Screener. And still, a named relationship manager on the other end of the line when the outputs of that screener confront a client with a hard decision. “Fifteen years ago, we started with the belief that access to global markets should be both simpler and more sophisticated,” Forss reflects. “If we do our job right, Omni Screener will show that the most advanced thing you can offer in finance is still a human being who picks up the phone—backed by technology that helps them see the whole market at once.”
