LMAX Exchange wins best FX ECN/MTF for the third year running
London, 5 February 2015 – LMAX Exchange, the leading FCA regulated MTF for global FX and the UK’s fastest growing technology firm, has been named ‘Best FX Trading Venue (ECN/MTF)’ for the third year running at the 2015 Wall Street Letter (WSL) Institutional Trading Awards. The LMAX Exchange business model and its contribution to the industry have been recognised alongside the world’s leading exchanges and financial services firms.
The award was presented at a gathering of Financial Services industry leaders at the Cipriani Hotel in New York City on February 4th, and accepted by Patrick Bartle, Global Head of FX Strategy, and Tom Gould, Head of US Sales at LMAX Exchange.
The WSL Institutional Trading Awards honour innovation and excellence in the institutional trading industry, awarding exchanges, brokerages and financial technology companies for their achievements throughout the year.
David Mercer, CEO of LMAX Exchange commented:
“We are delighted to have been named the ‘Best FX ECN/MTF’ for the third year running. This award demonstrates strong recognition of our contribution to the FX industry and our leading role in transforming it towards complete transparency and level playing field for all market participants. With clients in over 80 countries and remarkable growth achieved to date, LMAX Exchange is fast becoming the emerging benchmark for global FX.”
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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 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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