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Breaking: ThinkLiquidity Launches Strategic Partnership With FX Bridge

ThinkLiquidity has teamed up with FX Bridge, joining forces to support a new risk management solution for brokers.

ATLANTA, GA – MAY 2, 2015 – ThinkLiquidity, a risk management technology group specializing in real-time analytics and consulting services, has launched a strategic partnership with FX Bridge Technologies Corporation, helping support a joint trading solution for brokers globally, according to a ThinkLiquidity statement.

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Per the agreement, ThinkLiquidity will lean on FX Bridge’s trading platform, integrating its own risk management capabilities and services suite. One of the primary impetuses behind the deal is the desire to foster an alternative solution to the current MT4 framework in the industry, whilst strengthening risk management offerings for brokers.

The deal is important for brokers as they can have the option of shoring up their risk management and platform needs with one stroke, via one cohesive solution.

According to ThinkLiquidity’s Managing Director Jeff Wilkins in a recent statement on the partnership: “Our broker customers want to offer new asset classes and find a way to expand out of the MT4 ecosystem. They look at the substantial hurdle of developing a platform and staffing a trade desk and get overwhelmed. Now they can tap the expertise of our risk and operations team and get a top-notch trading platform at the same time.”

“A partnership like this with ThinkLiquidity is unique in our industry. There’s an opportunity now for brokers without in-house options expertise to benefit from a new product with great profit potential. Combining our best-in-class ProTrader Plus front end with full risk and operations support removes many of the barriers that make brokers hesitant to offer options,” added Joseph Cunningham, founder and Executive Chairman of FX Bridge Technologies, in an accompanying statement.

The recent accord with FX Bridge is the latest partnership with a service provider since the group’s dealings with CME Group earlier this year, which helped extend transaction reporting capabilities to brokers in Australia.

About FX Bridge Technologies

FX Bridge Technologies Corporation is a leading provider of foreign exchange trading software solutions and services to brokers and banks worldwide. The firm provides innovative spot, options, and contract for differences (CFD) trading platforms, as well as liquidity and prime broker credit solutions to leading FX brokers and banks. Its flagship ProTrader Plus™ platform supports all these functions within a single customer account, enabling cross-margining credit efficiencies as well as a comprehensive array of trading and risk management strategies.

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

FX Bridge Software Powers EBS BrokerTec Options Platform

ATLANTA, GA – SEPTEMBER 14, 2015 – FX Bridge Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of derivatives trading technology, announces a new licensing agreement with EBS BrokerTec, ICAP’s market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business. FX Bridge will provide the technology for EBS BrokerTec’s relationship-based FX options platform for the professional trading community.

After an intensive review of usability, fault resilience, multi-bank pricing and smart routing, EBS selected FX Bridge Technologies and its ProTrader Plus software to launch its next generation EBS Direct business. The selection process verified FX Bridge’s software platform met EBS’ high standards. Professional and institutional traders worldwide have come to rely on EBS BrokerTec’s unparalleled technology and infrastructure.

Joseph Cunningham, Founder and Executive Chairman of FX Bridge Technologies, said, “This alliance allows EBS BrokerTec to serve their customers with the best-in-class offering in FX Options. We are now an integrated component of EBS BrokerTec’s overall suite of OTC FX products, EBS Direct.”

Gil Mandelzis, CEO EBS BrokerTec, said: “Adding FX Options to our portfolio completes our OTC FX product coverage. Three years ago we covered mostly three currency pairs in the FX Spot world, and now the company has grown to cover spot, NDFs, forwards and swaps, and FX options.”

“This validates FX Bridge’s ProTrader Plus™ v6.0 as being valuable to both our broker/dealer community and the institutional trader. Brokers can use our platform with complete confidence that, as they grow their business, FX Bridge will have the best solution in today and tomorrow.” says James Friedman, FX Bridge’s Chief Business Development Officer.

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

CaesarTrade FX Chooses FX Bridge® for Their Next Generation

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – MARCH 24, 2015 – FX Bridge Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of foreign exchange spot and options technology solutions, announces a new licensing agreement with CaesarTrade of New Zealand. Emphasizing the value of Forex education, CaesarTrade is leading the charge of FX dealers to bring the full complement of risk management strategies to its clients.

“We know our clients want FX options because they are constantly talking to us about their trading strategies that they use in equities.” Says Eric Harbor, Caesar FX’s CEO. With FX Bridge, CaesarTrade will implement not only FX options, but CFD equity options, too.

With V6.0, FX Bridge offers more than a platform with price discovery, execution, and ease of use. It delivers a new line of business and backs it up with technology support and market development consultation. This is the best course of action for FX companies facing increased consolidation and competition in their market.

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

FX Bridge® New WebTools

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – FEBRUARY 11, 2015 – FX Bridge Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of foreign exchange spot and options technology solutions, now expands its best bid / best offer quoting through its Web Widgets Suite. “Vanilla options prices can now reach every desktop and mobile device”, says Chief Business Development Officer James N. Friedman.

Options dealers and traders need quick access to market prices and trends. Often times, because of firewall restrictions and desktop security, traders were unable to get live prices of options. This problem worsens when increased market volatility forces traders to make quick decisions. By having a way to monitor a ladder of call and put option prices with a series of tenors, traders have more power using more risk management and trading strategies.

I don’t always need everything the full trading platform offers. Sometimes, I just need to see the market!” says R. Nash , principal of Empirical Premium Fund. Whether from an office or a yacht, market data is critical to managing risk.

As a marketing tool, options are an excellent differentiator from the myriad of plain spot trading platform providers. Now a dealer can attract and retain more trader accounts. Traders increase their knowledge and understanding of options trading from the dealer’s easy to navigate website. This is a game changer in the democratization of knowledge.

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

Standard Gold Selects FX Bridge® for Metals

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – DECEMBER 30, 2014 – FX Bridge Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of foreign exchange spot and options technology solutions, announces a new licensing agreement with Standard Gold Asset Management (“STGM”) of New York, NY. Over the last few years, STGM has developed a proprietary platform to facilitate secure purchasing, financing and depository services in the physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion markets. STGM has contracted with FX Bridge to finalize programming changes for the launch of its platform in June.

“FX Bridge has extensive experience in financial platforms, and we rely upon that expertise to run our business.” says Joe Dicrisi, Sr. Director at STGM. For over 15 years, FX Bridge has built and customized software for some of the largest brokerage firms in the world. “Innovation, adaptation and customization are what we do every day.” Says James N. Friedman, Chief Business Development Officer at FX Bridge. “When dealing with precious metals, it’s best to work with a company where integrity, security, reliability and technology are more than buzz words. They’re the real deal.”

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

FX Bridge® V6.0 Release

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – SEPTEMBER 01, 2014 – ProTrader Plus V6.0, the first major release in nearly 2 years, extends FX Bridge Technologies’ leadership in same account spot and options trading. “The new release is a game changer”, says Chief Business Development Officer James N. Friedman. Not only does this help our traders who like standard exchange-style options, but now institutional players of corporate treasurers, hedge funds, and exchanges benefit as well.

The new version empowers the dealer with many enhancements to be more appealing and expand their customer base:

standard or off-the-run tenors

standard or variable strikes,

smart order routing to any liquidity provider, bank, or internal risk book

standard lot sizes or notional quantities

QuantAdvisor™ for providing trade ideas directly from a CTA

Direct Strategy Execution (“DSE”) single-click order placement from analytic tools such as Risk Manager, Strategy Optimizer, Margin Calculator or Option Calculator.

In addition, an alternative institutional interface provides the hedge and corporate trader to trade volatility, delta hedging, multilegs, etc.

“Options are a great tool for generating alpha and hedging overall exposure in the markets, and we want to make sure our international trading clients have all the tools and resources they need to be successful.” said Lubomir Kaneti, chief operating officer at FXDD Global.

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

FX Bridge® Raises the Bar for Best-in-Class Cross-Asset Margining

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – JULY 01, 2014 – FX Bridge Technologies Corporation, a leading international provider of foreign exchange spot and options technology solutions, once again raises the bar for best-in-class margining. The company has tailored its approach for maximum flexibility and global multi-jurisdictional compliance, including USA Forex, Canadian, and risk-based portfolio margining. Doing so positions FX Bridge to set new standards of best practice within the industry, allowing brokers to meet margining requirements while keeping an eye on the flexibility requirements of the individual trader.

Regulators in recent years have taken steps to ensure that margining requirements address the growing need to protect traders. In the U.S., the NFA and CFTC have enforced rules against cross-margining OTC spot and option trade accounts. On the other hand, they have permitted cross-margining for futures and futures options. Canadian provincial authorities have followed a similar suit. Meanwhile, in Europe, most regulatory bodies allow for consistency in cross-margining rules.

Brokers today understand the value of offering consistent products across an array of markets and regulatory environments. Looking to offer products internationally, brokers must navigate environments as different as those of Europe’s MiFID, Australia’s ASIC, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and New Zealand’s FSP, to name but a few. Products need to work in all of these markets and regulatory environments without the kind of labor-intensive compliance work that slows business to a crawl. Keeping track of regulations becomes a burden as brokers add new markets and traders.

Traders, on the other hand, are anxious to take advantage of the new-found flexibility of trading spot and options within a single account. Traders want to know that when they reduce risk from a multi-leg trading strategy, their margin is adjusted accordingly. This ensures that dealers assign sufficient margin to protect against adverse market moves, while traders don’t tie up all their capital with margin.

James N. Friedman, Chief Business Development Officer at FX Bridge Technologies, said, “Brokers want sufficient margin to protect against 100-year flood scenarios, while traders don’t want all their capital tied up. ProTrader Plus and BridgeTrader are the solution.”

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

FX Bridge® MultiBank Liquidity Leads the Industry

FX Bridge multibank liquidity offers six banks for retail FX options, setting a new standard for dealer liquidity for retail traders.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – FEBRUARY 20, 2014 – FX Bridge Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of foreign exchange spot and options technology solutions, now offers the broadest multibank liquidity in the industry. The company offers six banks to dealers within a single turnkey platform; dealers using the platform are able to narrow spreads by vast margins and offer a depth of liquidity formerly available only to institutional traders.

FX Bridge has consistently increased the number of banks available through its platform to individual dealers over the last three years. Initially The platform, ProTrader Plus 5, championed derivatives trading as it offered pricing from a single bank or market-maker. Since February of 2011, the company has augmented its platform’s capabilities, allowing multiple banks or market-makers to stream prices to a single dealer; it now boasts the industry’s highest level of liquidity, with six banks competing for each dealer’s business.

As a result of the platform’s ability to automatically execute traders’ orders at the best bid and ask prices available to them with its high-speed matching system across the industry’s widest array of market-makers, dealers have seen their spreads narrow by as much as 75%. Now utilizing the FX Bridge platform dealers get a competitive edge over those utilizing industry-standard single-bank platforms.

The competition among multiple banks for a single dealer’s trades gives individual traders the highest level of liquidity available through any FX options platform. To a dealer, this means providing bank-depth liquidity to individual retail traders at lot sizes of down to 100,000.

“We’re facilitating trade flow to banks that offers a new level of liquidity for dealers and individual traders. We’re the only technology firm currently able to do so,” Chief Business Development Officer James N. Friedman said.

“Now our profitable new product, options, provides our traders with even tighter spreads and more trading and risk management strategies,” FX Options Desk Manager at FXDD Sascha Szyfman, CTA, said. “And our banks are welcoming the increase in new trade flow.”

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

FX Bridge® Technologies In Front with MiFID Compliance Requirements

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – JANUARY 15, 2014 – FX Bridge Technologies Corporation, a leading international provider of foreign exchange spot and options technology solutions, has gained acceptance for its compliance with Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID”).

Since MiFID started in 2007, its aim was to integrate the European Union’s financial markets and to increase the amount of cross border investment orders. The MiFID plans to implement new measures, such as pre- and post-trade transparency requirements and capital requirements that firms must hold.

FX Bridge with its BridgeTrader™ Reports can produce virtually any form of report efficiently and accurately. Currently for many FX dealers, reporting is limited. Compliance departments take large amounts of data extracts, load them into spreadsheets, and manually use custom macros and formulas. This is just to process the data into a report. It is error-prone and requires hours of work that if late, will cost thousands of dollars in fines. This manual process is repeated every day. FX Bridge has solved this problem.

FX Bridge has tailored reporting and data extracts for Swap Data Repositories (“SDRs”). In use today, customers are producing the data accurately and timely saving them hundreds of hours of each year and thousands of dollars of expense.

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

FX Bridge® Technologies In Front with Dodd-Frank Reporting

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – JULY 15, 2013 – FX Bridge Technologies Corporation, a leading international provider of foreign exchange spot and options technology solutions, has gained acceptance for its compliance with Dodd-Frank reporting.

Swap data repositories (“SDRs”) are new entities created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”) in order to provide a central facility for swap data reporting and recordkeeping. Under the Dodd- Frank Act, all swaps, whether cleared or uncleared, are required to be reported to registered SDRs.

FX Bridge has tailored reporting and data extracts for Swap Data Repositories (“SDRs”). In use today, customers are producing the data accurately and timely saving hundreds of hours of time and thousands of dollars.

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

FX Bridge® Advanced Margining Protects Dealers & Traders Alike

FX Bridge provides advanced margin protection and compliance, allowing dealers to maintain required margins without burdening the trader.

ATLANTA, GA – JANUARY 7, 2013 – FX Bridge, a leading provider of Forex spot and options trading solutions, provides multiple margining mechanisms through its ProTrader Plus™ platform to meet the demands of regulators worldwide for protection and financial security, and address the margin management concerns of dealers whose trading customers operate in high-volatility product areas. FX Bridge was the first retail Forex trading platform to incorporate regulatory-compliance option margining into its platform. Through a simple dealer-managed environment, dealer and regulatory safeguards are in place, and place no undue burdens on the trader. Dealers can explore new markets unfettered by the need to take supernumerary precautions to ensure regulatory compliance in each new market separately. This means that dealers and traders alike are protected from the consequences of operating outside of regulations, as well as from market vicissitudes in times of market instability.

Streamlined Regulatory Compliance

Adherence to regulatory standards for minimum margins has proved an onerous requirement for traders, especially within an FX options environment. And as trade becomes ever more streamlined, and traders increasingly demand the ability to operate in multiple, international markets, dealers had to sprint to keep up with a vast array of separate sets of requirements. With FX Bridge’s turnkey ProTrader Plus™ platform, dealers can provide margin-compliant options trading in multiple jurisdictions with confidence and ease.

Continually-Expanding Support

In the pursuit of streamlining their platform for use across markets and international borders with ease and efficiency, FX Bridge complies with U.S. National Futures Association and Canadian single-product margining requirements.

Handling High-Volatility Derivative Products

Dealers increasingly turn to offering options to gain a competitive edge, but option margining requirements and best practices differ widely with changes in market and volatility. FX Bridge provides enhanced volatility-based margining in which the dealer can set margin rates for spot and options trades separately, even within the same account.

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“There’s a growing interest in margin management because of volatility, whether from debt crises or dramatic interest rate changes,” Chief Business Development Officer James N. Friedman said. “We’re able to tailor margin rates to all the situations that arise.”

“We need the freedom to expand into markets and know we’re compliant with local regulatory requirements. This level of flexibility gives us confidence to grow where the market demand is the highest,” Steven Reiter, CEO of Sentry Derivatives said.

About FX Bridge Technologies

FX Bridge Technologies Corporation is a leading developer of foreign exchange trading software solutions and services to brokers and banks worldwide. The firm provides innovative spot, options, and contract for differences (CFD) trading platforms, as well as liquidity and prime broker credit solutions to leading FX brokers and banks. Its flagship ProTrader Plus™ platform supports all these functions within a single customer account, enabling cross-margining credit efficiencies as well as a comprehensive array of trading and risk management strategies.

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

Forex Options market grows by 60% over past 3 years

Forex Magnates / October 4, 2013 / Steven Reiter, CEO and Founder, Sentry Derivatives Elaborates on FX Option.

FOREX MAGNATES – OCTOBER 4, 2013 – FX Options trading will grow fastest in countries where traders have options experience. I expect to see our volumes grow as IBs and options educational websites pick up on the great opportunity offered by our product, which opens up the largest options market in the world to so many new users, just as the first online FX margin trading platforms did about ten years ago.

According to the BIS survey just released, the FX Options market grew 60% over the past three years, and now amounts to more than $330 billion per day. Options are a core component of the market, clearly fulfilling specific needs therefore, it is natural to expect more traders to get involved.

The platform was built by FX Bridge Technologies from the ground up for options trading, and of course it includes FX Spot trading as well. It can even be extended to CFDs. Of course, it is the options trading that sets it apart from other FX platforms. It includes streaming spot and options prices, live P&L, charts, professional risk management tools that allow customers to explore their combined spot and options risk, to add simulated trades, and to execute FX and option orders with great flexibility. We worked intensively for two years with FX Bridge on additional features to meet our specific requirements and integration needs.

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

FX Bridge® Multi-bank Liquidity Leads the Industry

FX Bridge multibank liquidity offers 6 banks for retail FX options, setting a new standard for dealer liquidity among for retail traders.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – AUGUST 20, 2012 – FX Bridge Technologies Corporation, a leading provider of foreign exchange spot and options technology solutions, now offers the highest broadest multibank liquidity level in the industry to its retail customers. The company offers 6 banks to dealers within a single turnkey platform; dealers using the platform are able to narrow spreads by vast margins and offer a depth of liquidity formerly available only to institutional traders.

FX Bridge has consistently increased the number of banks available through its platform to individual dealers over the last three years. Initially, the platform resembled all other championed derivative trading platforms insofar as it offered derivative pricing exclusively from a single bank or market-maker. But Since February of 2011, the company has augmented its platform’s capabilities, allowing multiple banks or market-makers to stream prices to a single dealer; it now boasts the industry’s highest level of liquidity, with 6 banks currently competing for each dealer’s business.

As a result of the platform’s ability to automatically execute traders’ orders at the best bid and ask prices available to them with its high-speed matching system across the industry’s widest array of market-makers, dealers have seen their spreads narrow by as much as 75%. Now, dealers utilizing the FX Bridge platform get a competitive edge over those utilizing industry-standard single-bank platforms.

The competition among multiple banks for a single dealer’s trades gives individual traders the highest level of liquidity available through any spot FX or FX options platform . To a dealer, this means gaining the ability to offer bank-depth liquidity to individual retail traders at lot sizes of down to 100,000, while maintaining the ability to execute retail trade sizes.

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“Now our profitable new product, options, provides our traders with even tighter spreads, and more trading and risk management strategies,” FX Options Desk Manager at FXDD Sascha Szyfman, CTA, said. “And our banks are welcoming the increase in new trade flow.”

About FX Bridge Technologies

For more information about FX Bridge, please visit their website at www.fxbridge.com

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