Foreign Exchange

EBS Live

EBS Live is a premium product of real-time streaming spot FX prices, delivered direct from ICAP’s award-winning EBS platform – the source of spot FX pricing – to the customer’s market data distribution platform. EBS Live delivers sub-second time slices of best rates actively quoted on the EBS platform, processing data at a consistently average speed of less than 10 milliseconds, thus minimising latency.

Benefits include:

  • Minimised latency through direct feed delivery
  • Significant competitive advantage and reduction in exposure and risk from access to the true view of the market

EBS Ticker

EBS Ticker is a feed of real-time streaming spot FX prices, delivered as record-based digital data from ICAP’s award-winning EBS platform to the customer’s market data platform via Bloomberg or Reuters. EBS Ticker enables customers to:

  • React quickly to market conditions through access to the most comprehensive source of global spot FX information, reported in real time
  • Respond with confidence knowing that price quality is the most accurate and comprehensive available

EBS Ticker Direct

EBS Ticker Direct is a direct feed of live, streaming spot FX prices from ICAP’s award-winning EBS platform. EBS Ticker Direct can be redirected – through trading floor platforms such as Triarch, TIBCO or RMDS – to analysis programs or internal pricing engines within the customer organisation. Benefits include:

  • Ability to react quickly and with confidence to market conditions through access to the definitive source of reliable, transactional spot FX market data
  • Improved access to consistent and uninterrupted pricing updates

EBS Rates

Available exclusively via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service, EBS Rates delivers a desktop view of real-time spot FX rates on the EBS platform. Benefits include:

  • Greater clarity regarding events occurring at both ends of the market
  • Ease of use from access to market standard FX trade data and Bloomberg’s premier analytics on a single platform from a single login

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ICAP Global Currency Data Feed

The ICAP Global Currency Data Feed is a proprietary direct feed of live, streaming prices derived from a carefully selected range of sources, including ICAP’s EBS platform – the primary source of global transactional spot FX market data. Coverage includes prices for more than 150 currency pairs and crosses representing countries in both established and emerging markets.

Benefits include:

  • Strategic advantage from access to the true view of the interbank market
  • Improved access to consistent and uninterrupted pricing updates
  • Efficient and flexible redirection to end-user analysis programs or internal pricing engines within the customer organisation, through platforms such as Triarch, TIBCO or RMDS