LMAX Exchange announces partnership with Z.com Trade
London, 19 January 2015 – The UK’s fastest growing technology firm, LMAX Exchange, an FCA regulated MTF for FX trading, is pleased to announce its partnership with GMO-Z.com Trade UK Limited (“Z.com Trade”), a member of the Japan-headquartered GMO CLICK Holdings Inc. group of companies, which is the world’s largest retail FX provider by volume.
The partnership will provide Z.com Trade clients with access to LMAX Exchange’s unique non ‘last-look’ liquidity and unparalleled exchange-quality execution. Simply matching buyers with sellers within an anonymous non ‘last look’ execution venue, LMAX Exchange will offer Z.com Trade clients transparent price discovery, neutral, precise and conflict free execution in over 70 instruments, including spot FX, precious metals, indices and commodities.
Nick Cropper, General Manager at Z.com Trade, commented: “We are excited to announce our partnership with LMAX Exchange, and look forward to offering our clients a best-in-class trading experience that is both fair and transparent. As a group member of the world’s largest retail FX provider, Z.com Trade is highly committed to innovation and excellence. Recognising the growing trend towards transparent, exchange style trading, we are happy to announce that access to LMAX Exchange will be available when we launch in early 2015, beginning with access via an API connection for experienced traders.”
Andreas Wigstrom, Head of International Development at LMAX Exchange, added: “This partnership offers significant global growth opportunities for both firms. We are delighted to partner with the world’s leading FX brokerage, whose skills, capabilities and commitment to excellence are well known in the global FX market. The partnership will greatly advance the Z.com Trade offering and provide a transparent, fair, low latency trading experience for its clients.”
The partnership combines the strengths of both firms to deliver the optimal trading experience to clients worldwide.
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LMAX Exchange (London):
Barbara Pozdorovkina T: +44 20 3192 2510 E: [email protected]
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.
FX industry excellence:
Winner: Best Anonymous Matching Platform – Profit & Loss Readers' Choice Awards | 2020 more
LMAX Group has been awarded The Profit & Loss Readers’ Choice Awards “Best Anonymous Matching Platform”. These awards are voted on by the readers and recognise excellence within the foreign exchange industry throughout the previous year. Winner: Best Execution Venue – Finance Magnates Awards | 2019 - 2013 more
LMAX Group has been awarded the Forex Magnates Awards “Best Execution Venue”. The awards are granted to the top firms in their categories and announced at the annual London summit. Winner: Best FX Trading Venue (ECN/MTF) – WSL Awards | 2017 - 2013 more
LMAX Group has been awarded The Fund Technology and WSL Awards “Best FX Trading Venue - ECN/MTF”. The award honours excellence among providers to the institutional trading industry. Winner: Best Margin Sector Platform – Profit & Loss Readers' Choice Awards | 2017 - 2013 more
LMAX Group has been awarded The Profit & Loss Readers’ Choice Awards “Best Margin Sector Platform” for five consecutive years. These awards are voted on by the readers and recognise excellence within the foreign exchange industry throughout the previous year. Winner: Best Infrastructure/Technology Initiative – WSL Institutional Trading Awards | 2014more
LMAX Group has been awarded The Wall Street Letter Institutional Trading Awards “Best Infrastructure/Technology Initiative” in 2014. WSL awards honour excellence among providers to the institutional trading industry. Crypto industry excellence:
Winner: Best Cryptocurrency Exchange – Finance Magnates Awards | 2020 more
LMAX Digital has been awarded the Finance Magnates Awards “Best Cryptocurrency Exchange”. The awards are granted to the top firms in their categories and announced at the annual London summit. Winner: Best Institutional Digital Asset Platform – Profit & Loss Readers' Choice Awards | 2020 more
LMAX Digital has been awarded The Profit & Loss Readers’ Choice Awards “Institutional Digital Asset Platform”. These awards are voted on by the readers and recognise excellence within the foreign exchange industry throughout the previous year. Winner: Best Crypto solution provider – Finance Magnates Awards | 2018 more
LMAX Digital has been awarded the Finance Magnates Awards “Best Institutional Crypto Solution Provider”. The awards are granted to the top firms in their categories and announced at the annual London summit. Financial technology awards:
Winner: Best Trading & Execution Technology – HFM US Technology Awards | 2016 more
The HFM US Technology awards recognise hedge fund technology providers that have demonstrated exceptional customer service and innovative product development in the past 12 months. Winner: Best Overall Testing Project – The European Software Testing Awards | 2013 more
Winner: Best Trading System – Financial Sector Technology Awards | 2011 more
The FST Awards recognise excellence and innovation in the field of information technology within the UK and EMEA financial services sector.Winner: Innovative Programming Framework - Oracle Duke's Choice Awards | 2011 more
Oracle’s Duke's Choice Awards celebrate extreme innovation in the world of Java technology and are granted to the most innovative projects using the Java platform. Business growth awards:
Winner: Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 | 2016 - 2015 more
Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 is a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK, based on percentage growth of fiscal year revenues over the last four years. Winner: Deloitte EMEA Technology Fast 500 | 2016 - 2015 more
The Deloitte EMEA Technology Fast 500 pre-eminent technology awards program is a ranking of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa's fastest-growing technology companies based on percentage revenue growth over three years. Winner: Fastest Growing Tech Company in the UK – The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 | 2015 - 2013 more
LMAX Group has been recognised amongst the UK’s fastest growing technology firms for three consecutive years. Tech Track 100, compiled by Fast Track annually and published by the Sunday Times each September, lists Britain’s 100 fastest-growing private tech companies based on sales growth over the last three years. Recognised as a Tech City Future Fifty company – Tech City UK Future Fifty | 2015more
LMAX Group is part of the Future Fifty programme, focused on accelerating the success of high-growth tech businesses. 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).
LMAX Global is a trading name of LMAX Broker Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (firm reference number 783200) and is a company registered in England and Wales (number 10819525).