The buy-side execution platform provides advanced trading features for more than 1300 currency pairs with market data sourced through Fidessa’s established global ticker plants.
The Workstation’s connectivity aspects will continue ensuring speed and simplicity of interfacing providers through its global network.
Foreign Exchange Electronic Markets Executive Director at Nomura Mark Burroughs said that Fidessa now provides the ability to trade FX through a central, market-leading execution platform to its mutual clients.
The company will also add FX algorithms to its portfolio in 2012 and deliver the highest quality execution services across all asset classes.
Fidessa global head of Buy-side Workstation Solutions Russell Thornton said that FX trading is an important part of the trading operation in all buy-side firms, be that for currency risk management, settlement cash management or investment trading."
The Buy-side Workstation is a broker-neutral, multi-asset trading workstation and provides cost-effective, multi-asset solution that asset managers need and reflects the ongoing investment.
The Workstation is integrated with workflow-centric OMS and enables access to cross-asset trading hubs, dark pools, algos and broker services for single and program trades.
The platform features real-time market data feeds and enables low-latency FIX connectivity between 2,700 buy-sides and 650 brokers across 160 global markets through Fidessa global network.
