Integral, a technology and managed service provider of online trading systems to foreign exchange market participants, and Himawari Securities, a subsidiary of Japan-based Himawari Holdings, have partnered to provide customers with multi-source liquidity through a connection to Integral’s FX Grid. FX Grid is a global inter-institutional connectivity and trading network, linking market making banks and liquidity providers to financial institutions.
The company has said that the FX Inside API can be used to integrate proprietary electronic and algorithmic client-server, browser- based, and mobile application trading systems. Moreover, the FIX protocol, as well as Java and C++ interfaces, are supported.
The company has claimed that the FX Grid ultra low latency network and systems increase the probability to fill and execute an order and reduce rejection rates from liquidity providers due to delays. It has added that with the price changes occurring several hundred times per second, FX Grid lets a user receive published trades and execute a trade request in real time.
Atsuro Yamamoto, director, Himawari Securities, said: “Working with Integral allows us to offer our customers direct market access pricing from multiple liquidity providers. The system offers us the flexibility to respond quickly to changing customer demands. Further, FX Grid’s resilient liquidity provides our customers with a very attractive value proposition.”
Harpal Sandhu, CEO, Integral Development, said: “We designed our solutions so that they easily integrate with the systems that a customer has in place. If there is a need, we also offer business support 24/7.”