Overview
Currenex - FOREX Trading Portal

Currenex - FOREX Trading Portal

Currenex Overview

A Unique Multi-Bank Blend

Unlike most ECNs and FX portals available to industry participants, we believe Currenex liquidity and pricing is not standardized across the various prime brokers and FX dealers that offer Currenex. Each prime broker or FX dealer offering Currenex has the ability to customize liquidity providers, mark-up spreads and impose “last look” provisions on pending orders, all of which can dramatically affect trading profitability and risk.

Although many prime brokers and FX dealers claim that their Currenex blend is a true STP and inter-bank pricing model, we believe that most prime brokers or FX dealers mark-up their spreads significantly and place unreasonable last look provisions on deal flow, especially during times of increased market volatility or news events. While such practices are widely known and accepted by industry participants, with vCap FX, we believe you can access a highly customizable and unique multi-bank blend that, unlike most other Currenex providers, provides executable deal flow, tighter spreads and limited to no “last look provisions”.

Overview

Currenex provides a comprehensive suite of FX trading tools for the buy and sell sides; executable streaming prices (ESPs), request for streams (RFSs), algorithmic and benchmark trading and complete prime brokerage functionality with fully-integrated pre and post-trade processing services and unrivalled integration capabilities that provide complete Straight Through Processing (STP) to clients worldwide.

Currenex’s technology and infrastructure, designed for ease of implementation, optimizes the FX workflow processes end-to-end, using flexible templates, JAVA Swing and web applications that enable members to trade more efficiently and effectively in an online environment.

Currenex GUI
Currenex - FOREX Trading Portal

Currenex GUI

Executable Streaming Prices (ESP™)

Price Takers

Price Makers & Intermediaries

Enhanced Request for Streaming Prices (ERFS)

Orders

Spreadsheet Trading

Benchmark

Loans and Deposits

Security

Permissioning

Exchange Security

Data Center Security

Reporting

Currenex API
Currenex - FOREX Trading Portal

Currenex - FOREX Trading Portal

Currenex API

We believe Currenex is a driving force behind integration standards such as FIX and FpML, and is committed to ensuring an efficient and open marketplace for all participants. Foreign exchange traders using custom-designed automated pricing engines, order-routing and management systems, program trading systems and off-the-shelf modeling software can work with Currenex’s dedicated implementation teams to integrate these proprietary systems directly with the Currenex service. A rigorous test environment and extensive API integration expertise ensure that integration time-frames are minimized and trading efficiency is enhanced.

FIX Messaging Protocol

Currenex provides a high-speed multi-bank FIX gateway (using the FIX 4.2 protocol). This gateway allows FX traders to access market data (with full depth of book) and to manage orders. The Currenex FIX protocol specification is available to traders upon request. Currenex provides FIX traders with a full integration environment which includes live market data. Additionally, Currenex assists FX traders with throughput and protocol conformance testing.

Currenex remains active and committed to the FIX standard and is represented as the Co-Chair of the FIX Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC). For more information on the generic FIX protocol go to http://www.fixprotocol.org.

FXintegrate Java API

The FXintegrate Java API enables FX traders to access market data (including full depth) and to manage the full spectrum of orders. Currenex provides Java API traders with a full integration environment which includes live market data. Additionally, Currenex assists traders with throughput and conformance testing.

Bank Integration

Currenex works in partnership with auto-pricing technology suppliers to provide APIs to connect to vendor-supplied, off-the-shelf auto-quote systems. In most cases, foreign exchange banks using vendor-supplied systems can very speedily integrate with the Currenex service. FXintegrate Autoquote API enables banks to connect to auto-pricing engines including Cognotec, to deliver auto and manual prices to their own customers for execution.

FX Prime Broker and STP Integration

Currenex provides prime brokers and STP partners with automated notification of fully matched give-up trades at no charge. Currenex also provides a fully documented XML schema that describes customer trade flows for all supported transaction types. Clients have the option of several connection protocols including XML/HTTP (Push), XML/HTTP (Pull), XML/MQSeries, and XML/SMTP(email). Various authentication and encryption options are also available. Additionally, Currenex provides its partners a fully functional test environment for STP simulation.

*Please note that liquidity, low latency, dealable pricing and tight spreads are subject to market conditions and are not guaranteed.

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