Skip to main content

Electronic trading

No margin for error

Are money market margins a new science or just an overhaul? By Carl Martin, group technology director at Eurobase Banking Solutions in London

Out of crisis comes opportunity?

The past few weeks of rampant volatility have no doubt put the technology of a number dealers to the test. particularly interesting though are the strategic rumours circulating about an unlikely dealer.

Hotspot extends reach

JERSEY CITY, NJ - Agency broker and market-maker Knight Capital Group has connected foreign exchange and fixed-income trading platforms - HotSpot FX and BondPoint, respectively - to the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) network from NYSE…

Non-banks drive up Hotspot volumes

JERSEY CITY, NJ - HotspotFX reported a 107.9% rise in average daily volumes to $35.2 billion - double count - in April, versus $16.9 billion last year.

Bank FX price feeds fall short

LONDON - Banks must improve their foreign exchange pricing and trading infrastructure or risk losing order flow, according to currency traders.

Nexaweb melds FX pricing, trading on new platform

Burlington, MA-based Nexaweb Technologies, a provider of web-based business applications, has released a trading and price-discovery platform for foreign exchange markets, with pre-configured data connectivity, aimed at banks seeking to deploy a web…

FXall adds trade analytics

NEW YORK – Investment Technology Group (ITG) launched a transaction cost analysis service in co-operation with trading platform FXall, last week.

Fixnetix Launches FX Trading and Data Services

LONDON - UK-based low-latency data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix has launched packaged services for firms trading foreign exchange, targeted both at pure FX traders and market makers, as well as high-frequency trading firms trading FX as part of…

Euro crisis sparks record e-trading

LONDON & CHICAGO - Heightened concerns over the contagion risks of the Greek fiscal crisis to periphery economies last week led to record trading days on electronic trading systems.

Clients drive cross-asset trading

LONDON - Increased demand for cross-asset trading by hedge funds and asset managers will force the merger of foreign exchange and derivatives businesses, according to panellists at the FX Week webinar, FX technology arms race: the battle for market share…

Banks widen scope of IT budgets

Speakers at the FX Week webinar, FX technology arms race: the battle for market share, last Tuesday (April 20) covered a wide range of issues facing the industry post-crisis, including regulation, customers' increased demands and post-trade processing.

You need to sign in to use this feature. If you don’t have a FX Markets account, please register for a trial.

Sign in
You are currently on corporate access.

To use this feature you will need an individual account. If you have one already please sign in.

Sign in.

Alternatively you can request an indvidual account here: