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回复 33# 的帖子
找到一篇老文章,05年的,有讲一些平台的结构的。
http://www.financetech.com/news/ ... articleID=163700882
重点:Currenex,FXall在终端都是非匿名的,采用客户端结构,银行是交易端,如果是最早期的单银行连接的话,就是客户端先向银行询价,然后银行再以此报价,最后根据报价成交。或者银行可以考虑另外的报价,或者不成交,这应该就是通常说的Currenex的 last look option,不过当Currenex引入多家银行竞争,这种情况就会好很多,但是每个节点上还是客户端结构。
Hotspotfxi和Lava FX都是采用的匿名系统,对等结构,每个端口都是平等的,彼此不可见,互相报价,直接成交,所以Hotspotfxi和Lava FX requote的概率就会小很多,而且比较受对冲基金的青睐。
Multibank dealer-to-client platforms, such as FXAll, Currenex and State Street's FX Connect, however, offer both RFQ and a constant stream of prices from multiple competing banks. But dealing is usually not anonymous, which can prove disadvantageous for buy-side managers that are attempting to conduct large trades without tipping their hands to the marketplace.
The latest FX trading market model to emerge is the anonymous, prime-broker model, typified by Hotspot FXi, which launched in 2000. In this model, all counterparties are anonymous to each other until after a bid has matched an offer and the trade is consumated. The fact that buy-side firms trade through a prime broker and do not reveal themselves during the trading process makes the platform an appealing choice, and its exchange-like structure may make for an easier transition for unaccustomed equity traders. Celent's Burns says Hotspot FXi's clientele is 80 percent hedge funds and CTAs.
Lava Trading, which runs a quote aggregation service across equity ECNs, also entered the FX market in October with Lava FX, continuing its anonymous model from the equities market. Its plan is to migrate to an ECN-collation service, but it currently has eight banks on the service quoting prices within Lava. Buy-side firms also can trade directly with each other through Lava, but this is an unfamiliar model in FX trading. |
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