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TRADE ON OUR STRENGTH™
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WE’RE FORTEX
- Founded 1997, independent, privately held
- Consistent vision and organic growth
- $500M to $12B daily currency trades in 2 years
- 40,000+ high-velocity FX trading accounts online
- 5.5 million+ tickets/month
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OUR BUSINESS: MAKING CLIENTS SUCCESSFUL WITH FX TRADING SOLUTIONSTrade execution and support for sophisticated trading strategies for broker dealers, market makers, mutual funds, hedge funds, and professional investors around the world. Several of our clients generate 9-figure annual revenues.
- Trading technology expertise
- Powerful, proven ECN platform
- Best-selling FX end-user applications
- Low-risk, cost-effective, cloud-based SaaS solution
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OUR LIQUIDITY PROVIDERS
Direct access to Tier 1 liquidity from all major money center banks
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Money Center Banks
Exchanges ECNs
FORTEX ECN PLATFORM
The first ECN platform to provide neutral, direct access to interbank liquidity pools for currency, metal, energy, and CFD products with bi-lateral transparency between liquidity providers and seekers.
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- Fortex XBook ECN
- Fortex Bridge OMX and Fortex MT4 Web Trader
- Fortex 6
- Fortex APIs
- Fortex XCloud
Money Managers
Online Traders
Expert Advisors
Broker-dealers
Meta Trader System
Banks
ECNs
Quote Maker Aggregated Core Feeds
Data Warehouse Prime Brokerage
Bridge OMX XBook ECN
FORTEX PLATFORM
- Domain-based algorithmic executable streaming quote
- Auto dealing - STP - Aggregated risk management - Auto hedging
- Business intelligence - In-depth reporting
- Clearing/settlement
LIQUIDITY POOLS
FORTEX FX: POWERFUL TRADING INFRASTRUCTURE
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Purpose-built for high-frequency, low-latency FX trading
- Dedicated facility at Equinix NY4 and HK3
- Full redundancy, hot backup in Silicon Valley, and global network footprint
- Liquidity providers cross-connect through dedicated dark fiber, eliminating Internet transport
- Round-trip trade time sub-1ms with 480-Gbps throughput
- Process thousands of orders concurrently; 500,000+ per day
FORTEX FX: DIRECT ACCESS TO TIER 1 LIQUIDITY
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Direct access to Tier 1 liquidity from all major money center banks
- Instant, low-cost STP
- Razor-thin spreads
- Real-time executable streaming quotes for 120+ global currency pairs, metal, energy, and CFD products
Powerful matching engine represent each trader’s order in interbank market for best availability liquidity
- Proprietary algorithm finds hidden liquidity for improved pricing on large orders
- Industry’s first post-trade bilateral transparency model for trusted counterparties
- Customizable liquidity pools to create your private ECN
FORTEX FX: XBOOK ECN
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The power and market depth of the Fortex platform for individual traders on any platform or device
OUR PRODUCTS: FORTEX 6
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- Elegant interface for browser and mobile users
- Powerful, high-speed C++ version for desktop
- Integrated operations for consis-tent user experience, including ticket-based and VWAP
- Cloud delivery for easy access anywhere
- No software or infrastructure to install or maintain
Algorithmic trading engine for scripting your own automated trading strategies
OUR PRODUCTS: ALGOX
- Included with Fortex 6
- Open, industry-standard programming languages, such as Java Script
- Compatible with MT4 Expert Advisor
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OUR PRODUCTS: FORTEX MT4 WEB TRADER Broker dealers gain direct, online access to Metatrader 4 (MT4) accounts from a desktop web browser or mobile device
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- Consumer-like interface
- Full market depth in MT4 environments
- Supports Mac OSX, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android operating systems
- No software or infrastructure to install or maintain
- Superior stability and reliability
OUR PRODUCTS: MT4 BRIDGE OMX
Middleware that integrates MetaTrader with the Fortex Platform
- Preserve investment in MetaTrader while transforming FX trading
- Proven performance for world-leading brokers
- Gain direct access to Tier 1 liquidity and advanced trading features
- Flexible deployment options
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FORTEX FX: BACK OFFICE CRM
Our web CRM bridges the gap between clearing and electronic trading
- Simplified trade processing
- Settlement
- Account statements
- Reporting
- Regulatory filing
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FORTEX FX: RISK MANAGEMENT
Industry-leading robust, real-time risk monitoring and management tools
- Assess real-time market exposure by firm, trading domain, individual, asset class, currency pairs, or other criteria
- Built-in risk alerts and triggers to control risk thresholds and set systematic measures
- Automatic margin calls and margin liquidations
- Customizable features for meeting specific requirements
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OUR CLIENTS
Advanced Markets, owned by Macquarie Bank (ASX: MQG) and BGC Partners (NASDAQ: BGCP)
Interbank FX
Macquarie Group Limited (ASX: MQG; ADR: MQBKY)
Sun Hung Kai Financial and Everbright Securities (601788:CH SHANGHAI)
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PRIME BROKERAGE INTEGRATIONS
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PRIME BROKERAGE SERVICES
Fortex and Advanced Markets have formed a joint venture to provide prime-of-prime services and end-to-end trading technologies.
- FAM Clearing, LLC
- Targets FX market participants unable to access Bank Prime Brokerage
- Combines Fortex ECN trading platform with Advanced Markets’ 100 percent STP trade execution and premier service
- Extends access to PoP offering through Boston, Shanghai, and London
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WHY FORTEX? NEUTRALITY
- We are not owned by a financial services firm
- We process orders without conflict of interest
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WHY FORTEX? GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
- 24-hour global operations, support, and sales
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Silicon Valley Boston New York
London
Shanghai
Hong Kong
WHY FORTEX? ACCELERATED ROI
- Single point of entry—Fortex provides everything you need
- End-to-end hosted solution for rapid deployment, minimal capital spend
- Superior uptime and availability
- Highly scalable platform for you to scale on demand
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WHY FORTEX? YOUR INTERESTS FIRST
- Faster deployment than developing proprietary system
- Fortex maintains, manages, upgrades, and supports system
- 24x6 support
- Rich services: data analysis, business intelligence, profitability analysis, market exposure studies, risk evaluation, and assistance with developing risk management strategies
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Silicon Valley Headquarters Fortex, Inc. 203 Redwood Shores Pkwy Suite 640 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 U.S.A. T 650.591.8822 F 650.591.8818 www.fortex.com