MahiFX Launches Price-Explain Tool, MFX Echo

MahiFX, a financial technology provider, today announced the launch of MFX Echo, an extension of its existing algorithmic execution offering MFX Vector. The complementary tool, providing analyses for the entire trade lifecycle from in-trade and post-trade, provides valuable insights to traders and compliance departments alike.

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The new product assists traders in managing best execution requirements by essentially creating an audit trail and tracking every decision made during each trade. Built on Amazon Web Services cloud technology, the software also helps the trader in making the data available for detailed analysis to act accordingly.

The company explained in its statement that MFX Echo uses “a proprietary firehose streaming mechanism” to quickly replicate all available tick data from a customer's trading system into Amazon Web Services.

MahiFX is a New Zealand-based provider of foreign exchange solutions and other products catering to both institutional and individual clients.

MahiFX also has offices in London and is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). MahiFX Ltd is regulated by New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority (NZFMA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

The group’s three main products entail MFX Compass, an institutional e-FX engine, MFX Trade, a proprietary retail Trading Platform Trading Platform In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real In the FX space, a currency trading platform is a software provided by brokers to their respective client base, garnering access as traders in the broader market. Most commonly, this reflects an online interface or mobile app, complete with tools for order processing.Every broker needs one or more trading platforms to accommodate the needs of different clients. Being the backbone of the company’s offering, a trading platform provides clients with quotes, a selection of instruments to trade, real Read this Term, and MFX Vector, a buy-side order management system.

One of the primary attributes of MFX Vector is its extension of benefits to additional types of clients and venues, not just tier 1 banks, given its utilization of the company’s market-making technology. In particular, MFX vector helps clients dictate control and more latitude over earning spreads, boasting a number of features such as in-depth analytics, that are aimed to bring to light more transparent execution.

Commenting on the launch, David Cooney, Co-founder and CEO of MahiFX, said: "We are excited to be able to offer this level of granularity to traders, which has previously only been available to large banks due to the high cost and complexity. MFX Echo can analyze - in detail across multiple venues - parameters such as which markets moved first, how many moved and how quickly they recovered. It can also identify highly impactful behavior such as sweeps, all with the aim of informing better trading.”