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Keep up to date with news from and about ParFX, as well as details of the industry events we are attending.

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ParFX – Best e-FX trading venue of the year

The call for fairness, equality and transparency from our founders is reflected in the FX Global Code and aligns strongly with our core values. ParFX is, without doubt, as relevant and differentiated now as it was then.

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18 July 2014

ParFX named e-FX initiative of the year by FX Week

ParFX, the wholesale electronic trading platform delivering renewed transparency and equality in global spot FX, has received FX Week’s coveted e-FX initiative of the year award for its efficient, transparent and versatile solution to spot FX trading.

14 July 2014, FX Week

E-FX initiative of the year: ParFX*†

ParFX scoops best e-FX initiative of the year.
Innovations great and small are a constant fixture of the fast-changing FX market, and a good measure of their success is how quickly they are adopted or imitated. By that yardstick, Campbell Adams, head of market at ParFX and founder of the FXPure project, can claim much credit.
2 July 2014, Tabb Forum

Performance Considerations in FX Trading Platforms*†

“Every single message that comes into ParFX – whether that’s an order submission, cancel or replace – is subject to a randomized pause for any period between 20 and 80 milliseconds. We use this period because it’s meaningful enough to nullify anyone who is aiming to game, but meaningless enough for anyone who wants to actually trade spot FX for hedging purposes.”
1 July 2014, HFM Week

In its prime?*†

“I think the whole prime broking space has gone through many changes over the past few years, changes driven by regulation,” says Roger Rutherford, COO at ParFX, which is due to launch its primes business in the weeks ahead.

16 June 2014, The Trading Mesh

Performance Considerations in FX Trading Platforms*

Another venue adopting a similar approach is the recently launched ParFX, which applies a random pause to every order entering its system. Dan Marcus, CEO of ParFX, explains how this works: “Every single message that comes into ParFX - whether that’s an order submission, cancel or replace - is subject to a randomized pause for any period between twenty and eighty milliseconds. We use this period because it’s meaningful enough to nullify anyone who is aiming to game, but meaningless enough for anyone who wants to actually trade spot FX for hedging purposes."

12 June 2014, Les Echos (in French)

Les banques veulent préserver leur chasse gardée sur les monnaies*

Certaines banques ont créé avec l’aide du courtier Tradition la plate-forme ParFx, qui se revendique « anti-THF ».

11 June 2014, FX Week

FX Focus - Banks fear Sef arbitrageurs*†

The anger many banks felt culminated in several – including market leaders such as Barclays and Deutsche Bank – throwing their weight behind a breakaway platform called ParFX, set up by rival broker Tradition last year.
3 June 2014, Waters Technology

FX Tech Moves Forward Amid Scandals*†

"In ParFX, the car effectively has an average speed limiter, and fuel is provided to everyone at the same time, free of charge. Accordingly, in our mind the market has identified the issue and has provided the solution.”

1 June 2014, University of Edinburgh (School of Social and Political Science)

A Sociology of Algorithms: High-Frequency Trading and the Shaping of Markets*

A new bank-backed venue, ParFX, slows down matching in a different way, by delaying each incoming order for a randomized period of between 20 and 80 milliseconds.

30 May 2014, FX Week

Instantaneous hedging is not market-making, says GSA*†

"It's going to be very interesting when ParFX opens up for the buy side because they have a much larger latency floor than EBS."

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