FX Trading for Spot Traders PDF - Financial & Risk

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FX Trading for Spot Traders
In today’s highly fragmented and increasingly scrutinized FX market,
traders need platforms that offer optimal transparency, maintain equal access
to liquidity and improve efficiency and effectiveness of execution supported by
complete post-trade solutions.
Thousands of customers around the world trust Thomson Reuters award-winning
transactions platforms to trade more than $350 billion in average daily volume.
Now, Thomson Reuters introduces Thomson Reuters FX Trading, an innovative
new desktop platform designed to deliver the value of the entire Thomson
Reuters FX offering to the global professional FX community.
TRADING MONTAGE
FX Trading Key Benefits for Spot Traders
MATCHING GRID
•Trade with confidence with the market’s most trusted
independent provider of FX trading solutions
ORDER ENTRY
ORDER BLOTTERS
DEALING AND EIKON
MESSENGER CONTACTS
DEALING
CONVERSATION PANEL
•Efficiently manage risk with one single point of access to
unrivalled liquidity in hundreds of currency pairs from the
Thomson Reuters Matching, Dealing and FXall platforms,
as well as from third-party ECNs
•Collaborate with the world’s largest global professional
FX community with over 14,000 Dealing counterparties,
1,500 FXall buy-side liquidity takers and 210,000
Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger contacts
•Streamline your workflow with a comprehensive
end-to-end solution with market-leading compliance,
straight-through processing, confirmations, settlement
and trade history reports
•Comply with regulatory trade requirements through our
regulated trading venues, Thomson Reuters SEF and
Matching MTF, and global trade reporting service
Thomson Reuters FX Trading Application
•Leverage advanced execution management capabilities
including desktop liquidity aggregation across Thomson
Reuters venues and third-party ECNs
•Gain timely access to new functionality and other
enhancements facilitated by simplified, software-based
product delivery with no proprietary hardware
requirements
FX Trading Functionality Roadmap for Spot Traders
PHASE 1
PHASE 2
PHASE 3
• Matching – Anonymous central
limit order book trading in over
80 currency pairs and with over
1,100 subscribers
• Bank Stream – Disclosed relationship
trading on continuous streaming
executable bank rates from over 30
price makers
• Aggregator – Desktop aggregation
across both Thomson Reuters and
third-party venues
• Eikon Messenger Directory – Vast
directory of over 14,000 Dealing
counterparties and 210,000 Eikon
Messenger contacts with powerful
tools to connect and collaborate
with both desks and
individual users
• Dealing – Peer-to-peer conversational
dealing including analysis, tickets and
straight-through processing (STP)
with over 4,000 organizations and
14,000 users in more than 120
countries around the world
• Transactions Network – Streamlined
post-trade workflows with straightthrough processing (STP) for
transactions completed on all
Thomson Reuters venues
About Thomson Reuters FX
Thomson Reuters FX offers the world’s leading independent
source of trusted FX market insight, interbank and dealer-toclient electronic trading venues, workflow management,
post trade and regulatory support for both sell- and buy-side
market participants.
The Thomson Reuters FX portfolio includes:
• Matching – Anonymous central limit order book spot,
forward and NDF trading for the interbank FX
community in over 80 currency pairs and with over 1,100
subscribers
• Dealing – Global professional trading community
including more than 4,000 organizations and 14,000
users in more than 120 countries around the world
THOMSON REUTERS
OVERALL MARKET
SHARE WINNER
MULTI-DEALER
PLATFORMS
• FXall – Bank-to-client trading and workflow solutions
through Request-for-Quote, Bank Stream and Order
Book venues to over 1,500 institutions worldwide
including asset managers, banks, broker-dealers,
corporates and hedge funds
• Thomson Reuters Eikon – Pre-trade analytics, news,
pricing and other expert insight to help inform
customers’ trading strategies and decisions
•Eikon Messenger – Open and secure network to
connect and collaborate with more financial
professionals from a vast directory of over 14,000
Dealing counterparties and 210,000 contacts
PROFIT & LOSS
Readers’ Choice Awards 2014
•Best platform for corporates – FXall
•Best multi-dealer platform - FXall
•Best ECN - Matching
•Best market data platform - Eikon
•Best research portal - Eikon
To learn more about Thomson Reuters FX,
visit thomsonreuters.com/fx
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