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Frequently Asked Questions

Welcome to the ClearingGateway™ FAQ section, designed to address common inquiries about our platform. Discover how ClearingGateway™ preserves financial privacy and enhances passthrough trading endeavors while ensuring confidentiality and security.

Answers to most frequently asked questions

ClearingGateway™ is your trusted partner in preserving financial privacy while optimizing your passthrough trading endeavors; your trades remain confidential, empowering you to keep the source of your monies discreet and secure. Our advanced platform is built with state-of-the-art encryption to ensure that every trade you make is shielded from prying eyes, securing the confidentiality of your monies.

We respect your desire for anonymity. With ClearingGateway™, you have the option for anonymous trading, allowing you to conduct trades while keeping the source of your monies private. Trade with confidence, knowing your financial matters are your own.

Your security is our priority. ClearingGateway™ operates on a highly secure infrastructure that minimizes the risk of data breaches. Rest assured that your financial activities are protected from unauthorized access.

We've forged strong partnerships with reputable financial institutions and collaborators who share our commitment to privacy and security. With ClearingGateway™, you are part of an ecosystem that values and upholds your financial confidentiality.

While privacy is paramount, ClearingGateway™ operates within the framework of industry regulations and ethical guidelines. Our practices are responsible, transparent, and aligned with the highest standards of legality and integrity.

We act in a trading capacity under an omnibus model to insulate your trades from the scrutiny of the brokers/dealers/banks operating in the chain of custody, by acting as an intermediary on your behalf. We can handle over 51 account registration types, including, IRA, Individual, Trust Accounts, and 401(k)s. Contributions and trades are handled in an omnibus manner with the brokers/dealers/banks, where we act as the record keeper managing your investors’ records on our systems on a fully disclosed basis or an omnibus basis. In short, your firm uses ClearingGateway™ in either of two capacities explained in the following sections.

We accept contribution requests and trade requests from your record keeping system on an omnibus basis. We then trade with the underlying broker/dealer using our FBO accounts, thus insulating your firm from the underlying broker/dealer. Monies for contributions flow through one of our partner banks to ensure that you do not run afoul of federal regulations. In this case, we have no understanding of your underlying investors, we are simply acting as an intermediary.

We accept contributions requests and trade requests from your investors via our API (application programming interfaces) on a fully disclosed basis. We then recordkeep all contributions and transactions for these investors and place trades with the broker/dealer on an omnibus basis using our FBO accounts, thus insulating your firm from the underlying broker/dealer. Monies for contributions flow through one of our partner banks to ensure that you do not run afoul of federal regulations. In this case, we have a complete understanding of your underlying investors and act as more than just an intermediary