Traders who need the ability to assess the live performance of price information sent between FX brokers and trading partners via FIX and other protocols can now get it.
Velocimetrics brings together real-time FX market data quality assessment and transaction tracking to instantly detect health issues impacting FX broker profitability.
In doing so, Velocimetrics, instantly alerts brokers to issues impacting market data quality or client communications that could negatively impact trading profitability.
Many FX brokers rely on their FIX engines to effectively send and receive electronic communications with liquidity providers and clients. If a FIX engine is not, for example, receiving all expected FX pricing streams from all providers due to connectivity issues or technical problems impacting the provider’s IT systems, or not publishing timely and accurate prices to all clients because of internal issues, the results can be costly. In these situations, FX brokers can find they are:
1) Publishing potentially unprofitable or uncompetitive prices calculated using incomplete or delayed pricing data
2) Unknowingly providing clients with delayed responses to requests for quotes or order placements
Velocimetrics is able to provide detailed insight to FX brokers and will will instantly alert users to unanticipated behavior or the breaching of thresholds that could lead to trade profitability, operational risk or client experience concerns.
By continually assessing incoming pricing streams, Velocimetrics can instantly identify if any individual stream is missing or if there are abnormal pricing tick delays on a given stream. Also, brokers can assess the frequency that trading messages are transmitted and received between the broker and its clients, and raise immediate alerts should communication levels unexpectedly decline or if response times exceed broker-defined limits. Firms are then provided with detailed, live and completely customisable business and technical level analysis, enabling the problem to be effectively investigated and its impact on orders, trades and clients rapidly quantified.
