API
One normalised connection to every bank you deal with.
Clients interact bilaterally with Liquidity Providers over a single FIX API, with fully configurable price streams and no size or currency pair limitations.
- Protocols
- ESP + RFS
- Interaction models
- 3
- Sites
- NY2 · LD4 · TY3
- Fee to client
- NONE
API offering
One FIX connection, three ways to interact.
Interaction models
Clients can interact bilaterally with Liquidity Providers in three ways.
- Full Amount
- Best bid/ask for full amount.
- Pass Through
- Fully disclosed, depth of book. Pass through mode supports order and quote based price streams.
- Limit Orders
- One or both limit order options can be selected, and dedicated limit order functionality is available.
Protocols and streams
Both Executable Streaming Prices and Request for Streams are available, over the same normalised connection.
- ESP
- Executable Streaming Prices.
- RFS
- Request for Streams.
- Configurable streams
- Price streams are fully configurable, and dedicated limit order functionality is available.
- No limits
- No size or currency pair limitations.
Products over the API
One connection carries the whole instrument set.
- FX Spot
- Outright Forwards
- Swaps
- NDF / NDS
- Precious Metals Spot and Swaps
FXSpotStream® can support any currency pair that a Liquidity Provider will stream.
Connectivity
Clients can connect to the Service in multiple ways, at three FX co-location sites: NY2 in New York, LD4 in London and TY3 in Tokyo.
- Cross-Connect
- Clients located in Equinix facilities are able to connect to the Service via a 1g or 10g cross-connect.
- Metro Connect
- Not detailed on the record
- Extranet
- Connectivity is available through various extranet providers.
- VPN
- Not detailed on the record
- Public Internet
- Clients connecting to the NY2 site can connect through the Public Internet.
Metro Connect and VPN are listed as available options on the published record with no further detail, so none is stated here.
Post-trade
The Service is connected to various STP providers for post-trade notifications, so fills can be passed downstream without a second integration.
Availability
The Service opens Monday 0700 NZT and closes Friday 1700 NYT.
24/5 global support from the US, Europe and Asia, including local Tokyo staff fluent in Japanese.
Enquiries
- Infrastructure
- For more information regarding infrastructure requirements, contact infrastructure@fxspotstream.com.
- Sales and general
- Everything else goes to sales@fxspotstream.com.
No FIX version, API specification, developer portal, latency figure or uptime target is published. Rather than estimate one, this page routes those questions to the infrastructure desk.
The rest of the Service
Ready to price from nineteen banks over one connection?
There is no fee for price takers and no pricing page to read. Tell us what you trade and where you connect from, and the sales team will take it from there.
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