Please understand that I cannot answer all the questions above without turning this into a very long advert/sales pitch but happy to try and address some in general.
The key point is that we will soon be providing a more expansive and better service with better internal and external software and keeping our low cost pricing strategy.
Our new trading software will offer clients the ability to buys shares in 45 different markets and see the transactions on one client platform - at present the existing client back office only displays the Irish & UK transactions (US trades are not recorded here and this often cause confusion with clients). With many new systems available internally certain manual procedures will now become automated. Pricing structure for Irish and UK trades (although not completely finalised for ‘additional services’) will remain more or less the same.
It is not for me to Disclose what other brokers are using the same system but RedDevil’s post above maybe helpful – cannot confirm the two he mentioned but know one of the other big Irish brokers (not mentioned) use exactly the same system.
I hope this goes some way towards answering a few of the questions above. As always if anybody has any queries you can contact me privately (PM) via this board and I will do my best to assist. peter