Volatility in the financial markets has accelerated market trends. In forex, it has made market participants even more amenable to expanding their universe of liquidity providers to non-banks.   Market participants recognize that non-bank liquidity sources are complementary and that it is es…

Today's low-rate interest is one of the biggest factors that influencing the forex market and the market participants such as institutional or retail investors have to identify the importance of excess liquidity.   However, it would be challenging in today’s low-rate environment if using exce…

Deficient in liquid assets with changing of market roles and new entrants need market participants to prepare for liquidity risk management.   Thus, market participants such as institutional or retail investors have to take the right steps to reinforce the liquidity risk management strategies a…

Despite current and future financial market uncertainty, the participant has proved resourceful and proactive. They are sometimes preventive in helping their organisations through the volatile, enabling them to prepare for a new liquidity environment.  As they are significantly affected by the …

The numbers of non-bank liquidity providers are on the rise and they have given supports to fast markets such as forex.  During the COVID-19 outbreak in late February last year, non-bank liquidity providers played a key role. They help to maintain an orderly market that has been triggered…

Choosing a broker for trading has been a concern for financial market participants. In the fast-growing market such as forex, there are many options. This time we take a look at the among popular brokers such as Straight Through Processing (STP). As a general rule, STP is an execution m…

What type of broker to use? This is among the basic question coming out from those who want to start trading in forex.  However, it is all about the situation while the forex market is growing fast. When the options are many, let's look at the among popular broker that is Electronic Communic…

Tight spreads and deep liquidity are needed for the forex market participants to be more competitive. Hence, they have to consider more characteristics if want a perfect forex liquidity price feed.   Forex market is the largest and most liquid market with a daily turnover above $5 trillion. T…

For the past 10 years, trading forex using a Financial Information Exchange (FIX) Application Programming Interface (API) has been demanding due to circumstances such as control, speed, and security.   FIX API is an electronic communications protocol for real-time information…