Integral Cuts Prices on its Open Currency Exchange Product

Integral is revamping its pricing model on its Open Currency Exchange (OCX) product. The technology company will be shifting into a lower tier of pricing with $2.75 per million. Another additional important detail that the company is sharing is that the exclusivity requirements of legacy platforms will be eliminated. [gptAdvertisement]

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The company is aiming to open up its OCX product to a bigger number of market participants.

The company is also committing to avoid charging third party additional fees, port fees, or market data fees.

Commenting on the matter, the CEO of Integral, Harpal Sandhu, said: “Our new pricing model for OCX does even more to improve the economics of running an FX business."

Integral launched OCX in the spring of 2015, when the company pioneered its concept for a subscription-based foreign exchange market. The solution is aggregating direct, indirect, and resting Liquidity Liquidity The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent Read this Term and was launched with a monthly subscription cost of $275.

Nowadays, the OCX is cross-connected to about 250 liquidity sources spread across NY4, LD4 and the TY3 datacenter locations of Equinix.

Earlier this year, Integral introduced some material upgrades to its OCX product. New ultra-low latency hardware upgrades delivered 80 microsecond round trip acknowledgement times. Another improvement has been the incorporation of advanced algorithmic trading technologies into the exchange. The company also integrated its BankFX, MarginFX, and InvestorFX offerings into the OCX.

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