Tag: institutional FX

April 23, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Big banks merging Gold trading into their Forex operations

As commodities desks within large banks shrink, the use of high technology has driven a trend toward integrating interbank gold trading with FX desks Just how compatible is the long-established world of physical commodities with the highly liquid FX business? According to a report today by Reuters, a necessity has arisen within interbank gold dealing…

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April 22, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Addison Churchill enters liquidity provision with $5 million pledged to retail FX broker partners

Addison Churchill enters the liquidity provision business and commits capital to retail FX brokers with volume-based raw-spread business model Institutional FX consultancy and risk management firm Addison Churchill has today announced that it is to commit growth capital to retail FX brokers in order to provide a full liquidity solution alongside its professional services consulting…

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April 22, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Metamako takes latency down to 2 nanoseconds in benchmark testing

The technological arms race to bring latency to zero remains in full swing, as Australian technology company Matamako completes benchmark testing Metamako, a supplier of ultra-low latency devices to exchanges and the trading community which is based in Australia, has announced the results of STAC-N1 Benchmarks carried out by the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC).…

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April 08, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

CMC Markets selects smartTrade’s LiquidityFX for its aggregation and order routing service

The move away from fixed physical infrastructure is being furthered by British FX, CFD and spread betting company CMC Markets with inception of FX liquidity aggregation on the cloud Liquidity management and software solutions provider smartTrade Technologies has today announced that CMC Markets has selected the firm's LiquidityFX solution for FX and precious metal asset…

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