FX news: GFI joins the option platform race

GFI announced the launch this week of its Fenics Trader FX options platform. The announcement follows a soft launch over the last six months involving 20 GFI Clients. The company claims that volumes have reached 120 trades per month.

GFI announced the launch this week of its Fenics Trader FX options platform. The announcement follows a soft launch over the last six months involving 20 GFI Clients. The company claims that volumes have reached 120 trades per month.

The platform, with quoting on a request-for-quote (RFQ) rather than streaming basis, is supported by prices from nine market-making banks including BNP Paribas, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Credit Suisse, UBS and UniCredit.

Initially Fenics Trader supports European vanilla and associated simple two-legged structures (straddles, strangles and risk-reversals).

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