Asian clients to gain access to low latency, non ‘last look’ trading on LMAX Exchange
London, 16 December 2014 – The UK’s fastest growing technology firm, LMAX Exchange, today announced the launch of a matching engine in the Equinix IBX Data Centre in Tokyo (TY3). This will give brokers, asset managers and funds in Asia Pacific access to LMAX Exchange at execution speed of less than 4ms.
Adding a matching engine in Japan, the market accounting for over 40% of the global retail FX volumes, is a major milestone in global expansion for the London-based LMAX Exchange. The leading FCA regulated MTF for FX trading, LMAX Exchange operates its original matching engine from Equinix London data centre (LD4/5), delivering exchange style, non ’last look’, low latency execution.
LMAX Exchange CEO, David Mercer, commented: “Over the past couple of years, we have witnessed a real shift in FX trading towards transparent price discovery and a level playing field. LMAX Exchange is leading this industry change towards transparency and with clients in over 80 countries, our main objective is to deliver consistently low latency and exchange quality execution around the globe. With the launch of the Tokyo matching engine, we can now offer the same low latency execution in under 4ms, that all our clients enjoy in LD4, to our clients in Asia-Pacific.”
Andrew Phillips, Director of Technical Operations at LMAX Exchange, added “Through TY3 we gain close proximity to major financial institutions in Japan; this combined with access to the broadest choice of networks, means our Tokyo matching engine can deliver sustained processing capacity of 40,000 orders per second, giving us a significant competitive advantage in the region.”
Liquidity providers and major regional brokers have welcomed the announcement. Alex Gerko, Head of Trading at GSA Capital, commented: “LMAX Exchange has a truly unique business model, enabling complete transparency and level playing field to both the buy and sell-side. We are excited to continue working with LMAX Exchange and pricing into the new Tokyo venue, bringing the benefits of limit order-based, low latency execution to clients in Asia-Pacific.”
David Wilkinson, Senior Director, Financial Services and Enterprises, Equinix Asia Pacific, commented: “The deployment of LMAX Exchange in Japan signifies the exuberant growth in the region, as more and more financial services providers and FX trading platforms are expanding into Tokyo. It also further strengthens TY3 as our FX hub in the region, demonstrating our global financial ecosystem inside Equinix.”
Media Contacts
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LMAX Exchange (London):
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About LMAX Exchange
LMAX Exchange Group is a dynamic, visionary and award-winning financial technology company. Recognised as one of the UK’s fastest growing technology firms, LMAX Exchange is leading the transformation of the global FX industry to transparent, fair, precise and consistent execution. Operating one global marketplace for trading FX, metals, indices and commodities, LMAX Exchange delivers open access, transparency and a level playing field to all market participants.
LMAX Exchange Group offers all clients the ability to trade on LMAX Exchange central limit order book, driven by streaming no ‘last look’ limit-order liquidity from top tier banks and non-bank financial institutions. Servicing funds, banks, brokerages, asset managers and proprietary trading firms, LMAX Exchange offers an anonymous, regulated, rules-based trading environment, order execution in strict price/time priority, and access to real-time streaming market and trade data, enabling all market participants to control execution quality and total trading costs.
Offering a comprehensive range of instruments and ultra-low latency execution, LMAX Exchange operates a global FX exchange infrastructure with matching engines in London, New York and Tokyo.
LMAX Exchange - a unique vision for global FX.
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LMAX Exchange Group is the holding company of LMAX Limited and LMAX Broker Limited.
LMAX Exchange is a trading name of LMAX Limited, which operates a multilateral trading facility, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (firm reference number 509778) and is a company registered in England and Wales (number 6505809).
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