Software provider enables KCG to provide both X_TRADER® and TT platform users with access to on-the-run U.S. Treasury liquidity
CHICAGO and NEW YORK, February 3, 2015 – Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, and KCG Holdings, Inc., an independent market-making and execution-only brokerage firm, today announced that TT will introduce connectivity to KCG Fixed Income in the first quarter of 2015. KCG provides direct access to on-the-run U.S. Treasury liquidity. This marks the first time TT has offered connectivity to liquidity from a non-exchange provider.
With this new connection to KCG, TT will provide professional traders with a consolidated point of access to multiple sources of global fixed income liquidity. With the upcoming server-side Aggregator, customers will be able to consolidate the display and introduce smart order-routing logic when trading complex strategies across multiple U.S. Treasury markets.
“Connectivity to KCG will boost our offering to fixed income traders by providing them with direct access to additional liquidity generated by KCG’s market makers. We think this will be an important differentiator for us as we continue to strengthen our tool suite for the fixed income community,” said Rick Lane, CEO of Trading Technologies.
TT customers will be able to enter and manage trades on KCG from both X_TRADER and the new TT platform, which is currently available to early-stage users, using the full suite of tools including Autospreader®, Autotrader™, and the ADL® visual programming platform for algorithmic trading, as well as TT’s FIX and proprietary API solutions.
The KCG connection will complement TT’s existing connections to the major U.S. Treasury and Treasury futures markets, bringing the total number of exchanges and liquidity destinations available through X_TRADER to 40.
Samantha Coyne, head of Fixed Income Client Services for KCG, said, “We’re pleased to offer Trading Technologies’ clients access to our market making liquidity. This technology makes our one-to-one, fully accountable trading relationship very scalable and enables us to deliver high quality liquidity to TT’s diverse client base without asking them to change their workflow.”
X_TRADER users will be able to access KCG’s liquidity through internally hosted gateways or TT’s TTNET™ global hosting solution, including TT’s MultiBroker offering.
About Trading Technologies
Trading Technologies (https://www.tradingtechnologies.com, @Trading_Tech) develops and delivers professional trading software for a wide variety of users including proprietary traders, brokers, money managers, CTAs, hedge funds, and commercial hedgers and risk managers. TT provides access to 40 major international exchanges and liquidity platforms. Its recently unveiled next-generation trading platform, TT, uses the software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model to give users a fast, reliable, mobile solution that represents what’s next in the world of trading and technology.
About KCG
KCG is a leading independent securities firm offering investors a range of services designed to address trading needs across asset classes, product types and time zones. The firm combines advanced technology with exceptional client service across market making, agency execution and venues. KCG has multiple access points to trade global equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities via voice or automated execution. www.kcg.com