Institutional Spot FX and FX Options Trading
Access multiple FX prime brokers for execution of over-the-counter (OTC) spot FX, forward foreign exchange, swaps and FX options, including vanilla, European and exotic FX options. FX prime brokerage services provide institutional traders with access to voice, electronic and direct bank execution, flexible integration with automated, algorithmic and quantitative FX trading systems and robust credit facilities including cross-margining and cross-asset FX trading.
Online Forex Trading Platforms
Source alternative venues of FX liquidity with our diverse FX product offerings. Connectivity to the institutional foreign currency markets are offered under multiple API and ISV solutions which include various ECN, multi-bank and aggregated FX software platforms. Our FX liquidity solutions include Integral FX Inside Professional, Integral FX Inside API, EBS Spot, EBS Spot Ai, EBS Prime, Currenex, LavaFX, HotSpot FX, FXall and Baxter-FX.
Institutional FX Trading Services
We provide institutional forex traders with a wide range of value-add services, which include, consulting on technology and programming aspects of quantitative foreign currency strategies, FX trade automation, FX aggregation, algorithmic and black box trading systems; high-speed connectivity solutions including direct bank access, server co-location and other proximity hosting services as well as providing emerging and tenure asset managers with the capital introductions needed to grow their business.
Learn more about the foreign currency industry, the various dealable currencies, how the FX market differentiates itself from the equities and exchange traded commodity futures markets and other helpful industry terminology on currencies.
Learn more about our foreign exchange brokerage operations and how our business model and vision supports our clients, how we maintain industry standards and protect our clients through adherence to strict compliance with regulations and how the vCap team, which combines a unique blending of in-depth experience in the forex brokerage industry, can empower our clients with the tools needed to succeed in the ever-changing and dynamic over-the-counter spot FX and FX options marketplace.
Integral is an aggregated FX trading system that combines pricing from multiple FX liquidity providers, ECNs and banks with algorithmic trading functionality to give you FX liquidity and best execution. Integral’s single straight-through-processing (STP) connection eliminates the need for maintaining multiple FX trading applications on multiple screens by consolidating them into a single interface.
Execute spot FX, precious metal and NDF transactions via ICAP’s EBS Spot, EBS Spot Ai (automated FX interface), EBS Live, EBS Prime and EBS Global Access (browser-based) forex platforms and services. ICAP’s EBS provides 24-hour access to real-time and historical FX market data and supports a wide range of FX trading strategies, including both API and manual trading for banks and non-bank professional trading organizations.
Source FX liquidity from a unique multi-bank blend that provides customizable selections of FX liquidity providers, executable deal flow, tighter spreads and limited “last look” provisions. Currenex provides executable streaming prices (ESP), request for streams (RFS), benchmark trading and complete prime brokerage functionality with fully-integrated pre- and post-trade processing services for corporations, institutional traders, leveraged funds, hedge funds, institutional and proprietary traders.
FXall’s Active Trading, QuickTrade, Bank Stream and Portfolio OMS provides a neutral FX trading platform with end-to-end workflow management and straight through processing. FXall’s trading platforms not only provides foreign exchange traders with liquidity from a multitude of foreign currency banks but from a uniquely wide and diverse community of FX participants including hedge funds, asset managers and proprietary trading groups.
LavaFX is a multi-bank ECN that provides live dealable prices, full depth of book, the ability to place bids and offers, anonymous trading, together with Lava's sophisticated order types. The system aggregates multiple sources of FX liquidity into a single access point, which can be tapped via the fast, intuitive LavaFX user interface, or through a FIX API geared towards algorithmic, automated or quant FX traders.
Hotspot FX is underpinned by technology that tries to ensure timely trade executions and trade confirmations, real-time position updates and seamless post-trade STP. Forex traders can access the Hotspot FX platform via its trading interface as well as by its LiveLink® integration suite, which includes a proprietary API and FIX gateway. HotSpot FX also offers a collocation service at Equinix as well as flexible credit solutions, including Multilateral Prime Brokerage, Prime Broker Plus and FX Bank Direct.
We believe BAXTER-FX operates one of the world’s most competitive and liquid foreign currency ECNs for trading Spot FX. Since BAXTER-FX has many years of specialized experience in the FX marketplace, we believe BAXTER-FX is able to offer the highest standard of institutional FX trading to all market professionals through proven foreign exchange trading functionalities.
