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Cboe Global (CBOE) to Introduce FX Central Limit Order Book

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Cboe Global Markets, Inc.’s (CBOE - Free Report) leading platform Cboe FX Markets has confirmed plans to introduce a central limit order book (CLOB), known as Cboe FX Central for foreign exchange (FX) trading.

The new platform Cboe FX Central is expected to go live on Jun 29 and will offer the option to trade in spot EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD, AUD/USD, USD/CAD, USD/CHF, and USD/CNH. The launch of Cboe FX Central will intensify competition and increase innovation in the FX market. The platform extends the traditional central limit order book model by rewarding liquidity providers with faster market data when their liquidity is at or close to the best bid or offer.

Cboe FX Central market data will be available at three different speeds (real-time, 3 millisecond delay, 10 millisecond delay).

The benefits of Cboe FX Central include no requirements of average daily volume, easy access to real-time data than the current primary markets, and assistance to market participants in the form of better prices for their orders, which motivates liquidity providers to enhance the quality and depth of order book.

Cboe FX’s suit of trading services includes a firm order book (Cboe FX Central), sweepable order book with the curated firm and non-firm liquidity (ECN) and full amount trading, which provide clients with a solution for larger order risk transference with low market impact (Full Amount).

Cboe offers trading across a diverse range of products in multiple asset classes and geographies, which include global foreign exchange among other products. On the Cboe FX platform, the institutional FX services take place under the Global FX segment of CBOE Global Markets. Revenues in the Global FX segment increased 21.6% in the first quarter of 2020.

The Cboe FX platform utilizes a price-firmness-time priority market model, combined with a pricing model where customers are charged either a flat or tiered commission rate based upon the notional amount traded on the platform.

Shares of this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company have underperformed the industry in the past year. The stock has lost 14.2% against the industry’s increase of 0.1%. Nevertheless, its diversified product portfolio and strong liquidity position should drive the stock going forward.

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