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ICAP GLOBAL CURRENCY FEED
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Organisations with interest in global financial markets need a range of market data
solutions to enable them to make timely and accurate risk management, investment
and other business decisions. They need access to the definitive source of reliable
transactional spot foreign exchange data for a variety of purposes.
The ICAP Global Currency Feed is a proprietary direct feed of live, streaming prices derived from a carefully selected range
of sources, including ICAP’s EBS platform – long considered the primary source of global transactional spot FX market data
– as well as ICAP’s extensive global voice broking operations. A leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk
mitigation and information services, ICAP transacts average daily volumes in excess of USD 1.3 trillion, more than 40% of
which is electronic.
EBS Spot data reflects the trading activity of more than 2,500 traders on 800-plus floors in almost 50 markets, who use the
award-winning EBS Spot system to generate daily spot FX transactions worth in excess of USD 165 billion (single count).
The ICAP Global Currency Feed provides real-time, 24-hour delivery of live market data to enhance users’ ability to monitor
the real spot FX market. Coverage includes rates for more than 180 currency pairs and crosses, from more than 155 countries
in both established and emerging markets.
Delivered as a digital feed direct from the ICAP platform data engine to third-party distributed feeds, it can be redirected –
through trading floor platforms such as Triarch, TIBCO or RMDS – to end-user analysis programs or internal pricing engines
within the customer organisation.
AVAILABLE DATA
ICAP Global Currency Feed includes:
• Major (G7) currencies – sourced from EBS Spot
• Emerging markets currencies
• Bid/offer
• Timestamp
• Currency identifier
APPLICATIONS
Market professionals can use the ICAP Global Currency Feed to
enhance:
• Price discovery
• Fuelling internal and external pricing engines
• Populating analysis programs and models
• Internal display
• Instant portfolio management
• Creation and storage of historical databases
BENEFITS
The ICAP Global Currency Feed delivers
key benefits to market professionals:
• Enhanced ability to react quickly and
with confidence to market conditions
through access to the definitive source
of reliable, transactional spot FX market
data
• Strategic advantage from access to the
true view of the interbank market.
For further information please contact an ICAP Information Services Sales Manager in your local region:
Americas +1 212 341 9789
Asia Pacific +65 6831 0037 (Singapore) +85 2 2532 0844 (Hong Kong)
Europe, Middle East, Africa +44 (0) 20 7000 5880
Email icapinformationservices@icap.com or visit www.icapinfo.com
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