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Hundreds of Manual Workarounds. One Root Cause.

If your operations team is managing a host of manual workarounds, the instinct is to add headcount or redesign processes. But the real culprit is usually upstream: a platform that processes overnight instead of in real time, leaving your team to bridge the gaps every single day.

Real-Time Data, Not Overnight Batch

At the heart of AscendOS™, Apex’s cloud-native investing infrastructure, is the Ascend Ledger, the real-time engine that powers the books and records system for some of the most demanding brokerage operations in the industry.

Legacy systems process overnight. The Ascend Ledger handles workflows now, delivering continuous intraday reconciliation, real-time position updates, and straight-through processing that eliminates the batch-file wait. Your team — and your investors — see what’s happening in real time, not what happened yesterday.

Real-Time Reporting and Data Access

Run custom reports, dashboards, and alerts on your own data — without waiting on your platform provider. Real-time positions, cash balances, and buying power are always current and accessible to your team.

Straight-Through Processing

Real-time transparency into ACATS, corporate actions, and intraday activity — no more waiting overnight to see what happened.

Fractional Trading, Intraday

Real-time position updates can eliminate the intraday discrepancies that cause fractional share booking rejects and manual corrections, so your operations team isn’t reconciling shorts at end of day.

Automated Exception and Reject Processing

Pre-trade validation catches eligibility issues, buying power gaps, and risk limit breaches before orders are submitted.

Continuous System Availability

Unlike legacy platforms that require nightly downtime windows, AscendOS is designed to keep your operations running on week days and nights.

Cloud-Native Architecture

Built on modern cloud infrastructure from the ground up — not adapted from legacy systems trying to keep pace.

An Expanding Asset Class Library

AscendOS supports a growing range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, alternatives, and prediction markets.

Discover the six ways real-time data access can transform your operations. Read The Power of Real-Time Data Access whitepaper.

Build or Buy? Go for Both.

Operate With Real-Time Data Comparison Chart

The firms winning in financial services aren’t just choosing better front-end experiences. They’re making smarter infrastructure decisions. Read the Finance Feeds article “Apex Wins Cash App Investing Mandate As Clearing Infrastructure Battle Intensifies” to learn why.

We Didn’t Just Build the Ascend Ledger. We Use It.

Most infrastructure vendors build software for their clients to operate. Apex is different: We run the real-time Ascend Ledger ourselves, in production, every day, to power our own clearing and custody operations.

That makes Apex a user-provider. And it makes a meaningful difference.

When we encounter a limitation, we fix it. When market conditions create new demands, we build for them. Every enhancement to the Ascend Ledger is battle-tested against real-world brokerage operations before it reaches your environment.

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Built Under Real-World Demands

The Ascend Ledger is proven every day by Apex’s own operations, processing 796 million trades annually across 41 million+ brokerage accounts

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Continuous User Improvements

When our operations team identifies a gap or an enhancement opportunity, we build it and you get it in the next release

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A Roadmap Driven by Real Operations

Legacy vendors build to spec; Apex builds to operate. That means the Ascend Ledger roadmap is shaped by the demands of a live, production clearing environment

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An Enhanced Service Experience

Submit a service ticket in 60 seconds.* Get a response within 30 minutes during business hours.** Speak to a dedicated point person when urgency demands it.

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Regulatory Readiness, Battle-Tested

Every regulatory update to the Ascend Ledger is tested against our own live production environment before it reaches yours.

Supercharge Apex Cost Basis and Tax With Our Ledger

What changes when Apex Cost Basis and Tax is connected to the Ascend Ledger? Workflows that used to wait overnight can happen in real time — intraday cost basis calculations, continuous position updates, and tax data that reflects what’s happening now, not what happened yesterday.

The Ascend Ledger is the real-time data engine that makes Apex Cost Basis and Tax work harder for your operations team.

Real-Time Cost Basis Calculations

The Apex Ledger and Cost Basis and Tax process together in real time, so your operations team isn’t reconciling two systems that disagree.

Automated Income Reclassification

Income reclassification runs automatically and event-driven, triggered by the Ascend Ledger as positions change, not in overnight batches.

On-Demand Tax Statements

Generate tax statements any time — instead of scrambling at year-end. When your ledger data is always current, your tax statements are too.

Robust Operator Tools

Run on-demand reports, search and sort exception data, and view account state directly in the portal at any point in time.

*In demonstrations, service center tickets can be completed and submitted in under a minute. Apex proprietary data as of 8/1/24. **Apex proprietary data 1/1/24–6/30/24.