Currenex, the first independent and open ECN system, was founded in 1999 in California and now has offices in Chicago, New York, London and Singapore. The system allows you to carry out operations on spot transactions, forward and swap transactions.

Currenex members may include banks, company treasury departments, corporate finance managers, government departments, international organizations and central banks. Currently, Currenex members include such powerful corporations as Autodesk, Compaq, Ericsson, Intel Corporation and about 40 of the world's leading banks acting as market makers, including ABN Amro, Barclays Capital and Merrill Lynch.

Currenex does not conduct settlements between participants, but only provides participants with the formation of orders to debit funds from their accounts. Currenex provides its members with news, information on the state of the foreign exchange market, research and analytical information. There are several standard order types - a bidder can submit a restricted order, a market order, a "no worse than" order, and a "stop loss" order.

FXall is owned by Thomson Reuters and is one of the leading independent trading platforms for institutional clients. Provides opportunities for interbank spot trading in more than 400 currency pairs. Trading forwards, swaps, options, non-deliverable forwards, spot precious metals, and money market instruments.

Absolutely neutral and extremely transparent, LMAX Exchange is a revolutionary platform for FX and CFD trading, providing access to institutional-grade liquidity. An open order book for over 70 spot FX and CFD instruments enables trading on tight aggregate spreads. There are no hidden commissions in the spread - clients pay a fixed commission for each trade.

The LMAX Exchange trading platform provides reliable, fast execution with an average speed of less than 3 milliseconds. LMAX Exchange markets can be accessed through the web platform, mobile platform, MultiCharts, MT4 bridge and API. Traditional FX and CFD platforms offer clients the price at the top of the order book. On LMAX Exchange, clients can see up to 20 levels of market depth through the FIX API, and place orders at any level for any instrument without any restrictions.

Key to both the foreign exchange and fixed income global markets, EBS BrokerTec is a market-leading e-trading technology and solutions provider, giving our customers access to multiple execution options and diverse, valuable liquidity. Constantly creating new ground-breaking solutions – whilst continuously investing in our proven, market-leading platforms and products – we provide exceptional value to a globally diverse community of professional traders.

The EBS product range is recognised globally as the market standard in professional FX trading – bringing together buyers and sellers of currencies in more than 50 countries and providing the global FX market with innovative tools, services and solutions.

EBS trading platforms maintain a healthy market ecology for the benefit of all market participants and stakeholders. Principled and passionate in everything we do, we work in partnership with our customers, helping them do business with greater efficiency – and with the confidence that they will get the results they want.

Integral has delivered the only multi-sided trading network for foreign exchange. The platform empowers participants across the entire FX market to configure and operate their own automated, unique, private FX business.

Integral’s solutions are delivered On Demand enabling FX businesses to flexibly enter new markets quickly and scale efficiently without owning and operating any IT infrastructure of their own.

Integral’s private, customer-branded trading solutions are managed and operated over Integral’s FX Grid®, a global inter-institutional connectivity and trading network, linking market making banks to FX market participants.

Hotspot, a BATS Global Markets Company, was the first ECN for the institutional FX market and continues to set the standard with deep liquidity, complete anonymity and innovative technology.

The new matching engine will reside in the Equinix LD4 data centre, west of London. All materials related to the launch will be posted to this page including technical documentation and notices. Please note: Customers are required to certify to one of the Hotspot Trading Protocols within the London Cert/UAT environment prior to trading on the new production London matching engine and may also be required to complete minimal additional account documentation prior to trading.