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MarketFactory and Tradefeedr announce strategic partnership

By MarketFactory | October 7th, 2021

Partnership will provide clients with an improved trading experience By integrating their services, the partnership will deliver seamless collaboration, analytics, and clarity to clients trading FX LONDON – 7 October 2021: MarketFactory, part of ION Markets, a leading global provider of trading, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, announces a new partnership […]

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Traders Magazine: The Real Cost of the New EBS

By Eugene Markman | September 29th, 2021

Since CME acquired EBS in 2018 we have all been waiting to see how the technology would be integrated. EBS’s flagship product, EBS Markets, provides access to executable liquidity across more than 138 currencies.

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MarketFactory is now live in Singapore’s Equinix SG1

By Christian Reiss | June 10th, 2021

Singapore now joins the ranks of New York, London, and Tokyo as a major global foreign exchange trading hub. Following the initial SG1 launch, Equinix continued to expand and invest in Singapore committing an additional $144 million in December for an additional local data center.

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Confusion Reigns

By MarketFactory | March 10th, 2021

The FX market, like many other long-standing markets, has been heavily changed from M&A activity. How does this impact connectivity? Confusion! Organizations that have been merged are rife with many versions of API specification documents. Systems are rarely retired, and it is extremely difficult to get the correct documents. Because of the M&A activity, the […]

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Being a disruptor doesn’t always work

By Hymavathi Velagapudi | January 8th, 2021

The FIX protocol has existed since 1992 and being a protocol has a system of rules that govern the exchange of messages. But what happens when only part of the protocol is implemented?

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A proliferation of API’s

By Hymavathi Velagapudi | January 8th, 2021

While it's perfectly expectable for each venue to have their own API, the challenges of connectivity become more difficult when each venue itself has multiple API's, with no clear delineation.

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360T GTX Maker

By Sanjiv Panchani | November 2nd, 2020

360T GTX Maker, formerly run by Gain Capital, has a FIX API that allows liquidity providers to price sweepable or full amount streams in NY4, LD4, and TY3. Their FIX API for market makers includes a non-standard feature where inbound orders contain a clOrdID (client order ID) value that’s the same identifier as the quoteID generated by […]

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The Importance of Adjusting LMAX Market Data by Region

By Sanjiv Panchani | October 9th, 2020

LMAX Exchange offers FIX APIs for FX market making and taking in New York, London, and Tokyo. However, the data and the way it should be consumed differs depending on the region it’s taken from. Let’s take an example where a client is interested in seeing a 1,000,000 price in all three regions. In London […]

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Pizza & Disclosed Venues

By MarketFactory | June 29th, 2020

Here’s our final FX Poem to kindly ask for your vote for the P&L Readers’ Choice Awards… Pizza & Disclosed Venues by erustamov@marketfactory.com Everything got put to test, challenging our ability Some passed with flying colors, some lacked connectivityYou picked up new skills in your home facilityEven boosted […]

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The Ides of Covid

By MarketFactory | June 17th, 2020

The Ides of Covid by emarkman@marketfactory.com As covid lead to volatility,It put a short on our mobility. We social distanced and joined zoom meetings,For work calls, happy hours, and family greetings. Yet FX remained resilient,And volumes hit levels that were brilliant. As markets move to Bull from Bear,It is now time to prepare. […]

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