NASDAQ OMX partners with Deutsche Bank and Imarex FS to introduce FX trading and clearing solution

1/16/2013 3:00 AM EST

NASDAQ OMX Nordic

NASDAQ OMX partners with Deutsche Bank and Imarex FS to introduce FX trading
and clearing solution

Stockholm, January 16, 2013 — NASDAQ OMX Nordic, part of NASDAQ OMX Group
(NASDAQ:NDAQ), announces a partnership with Deutsche Bank and Imarex FS
(Financial Services) to offer market participants access to an integrated
trading and clearing service for FX products. This allows clients of NASDAQ
OMX’s Norwegian clearing house, NOS, to trade FX products through Deutsche
Bank’s leading FX trading platform. Thus they will get direct access to
liquidity from the world's leading FX bank, whilst ensuring that clearing and
counterparty risk management is carried out in a best practice environment. 

Deutsche Bank is the world's largest FX bank, capturing 14.64% of overall
market share (Euromoney 2012 survey), which operates the leading FX electronic
trading platform Autobahn. Imarex FS will handle the customer onboarding
process. 

“The combination of world class FX execution and clearing capabilities is a
compelling offering for investors looking to transact FX on a standalone basis
or as part of a portfolio of assets,” said Greg Edwards, Head of Electronic FX
Corporate Sales Europe at Deutsche Bank. “With this initiative investors
benefit from best in class technology and liquidity combined with enhanced
reporting and improved risk control. The partnership delivers significantly
improved workflow capabilities, and we look forward to further developing the
service.” 

“Our clients are looking for superior trade execution, risk management, capital
efficiency and trade processing,” said Mikael Estvall, Vice President of Fixed
Income products at NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. “Our new FX clearing service is a
response to that. It’s an innovative solution at a time when OTC traded
derivatives are gravitating towards clearing in order to reduce counterparty
risk. It provides our customers with competitive FX rates from the largest FX
bank in the world, along with reduced counterparty risk via our NOS clearing
service.” 

“This partnership brings access to the deep liquidity on the Autobahn trading
platform which delivers significant benefits to our clients,” said Anders Borg,
Managing Director at Imarex FS. “We believe the offering has the potential to
deliver significant savings for corporates, institutions and active currency
traders through improved currency prices, whilst eliminating credit risk
between the bank and client. The result is a complete solution for FX trading
that meets the needs of our sophisticated client base." 

The NOS clearing service is to be integrated into NASDAQ OMX Stockholm’s FX
clearing service during 2013. 



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