Hotspot FX, Inc. - News, Articles & Research

Company announcement

IPC FX hub links up to Hotspot

IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, and Hotspot, a leading institutional foreign exchange (FX) market owned and operated by Bats Global Markets, today announced that market participants can now gain secure and reliable access to Hotspot's marketplace for outright deliverable forwards through IPC's FX Hub.

20 October 2016

Company announcement

Bats Hotspot to launch outright forwards for FX market

Bats Hotspot today announced plans to offer global trading of outright deliverable forwards contracts, with a launch planned for fall 2016.

14 June 2016

Company announcement

IPC becomes Hotspot connectivity provider

Hotspot, a leading institutional foreign exchange (FX) market owned and operated by Bats Global Markets (BATS), and IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, today announced that IPC is now a connectivity provider to Hotspot, enabling IPC’s diverse ecosystem of buy-side and sell-side clients to gain access to the Hotspot market.

24 May 2016

Company announcement

Hotspot builds service for the creation of private client liquidity pools

Hotspot, a leading institutional foreign exchange (FX) market owned and operated by BATS Global Markets (BATS), today announces the launch of Hotspot Link, a new service designed to allow clients to design unique, relationship-based, liquidity pools to meet their specific trading needs.

26 January 2016

Company announcement

Bats tempts FX traders with free trading on Hotspot

Hotspot, a leading institutional foreign exchange (FX) market owned and operated by BATS Global Markets (BATS), today announced plans to incentivise customers by offering free trading for all transactions on its planned London-based matching engine to the end of 2015.

05 August 2015

News

Bats moves into foreign exchange with Hotspot FX acquisition

Bats Global Market has acquired institutional spot foreign exchange market Hotspot FX from KCG Holdings in a cash transaction valued at $365 million.

28 January 2015

News

Forex Capital Markets to buy Hotspot FX retail business

Forex Capital Markets (FXCM) has inked a deal to acquire the retail foreign exchange business of Knight Capital Group's Hotspot FXr. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

30 January 2009

News

E-trading and buy-side demands shifting FX markets - Celent

The global foreign exchange market is rapidly moving towards an exchange traded business model as e-trading accelerates and the traditional segregation of the interdealer and dealer-to-client markets is breached, according to research conducted by analyst house Celent.

13 February 2007

News

Knight Capital buys Hotspot FX for $77.5m

New Jersey-based Knight Capital Group is acquiring online foreign exchange trading platform Hotspot FX in an all cash deal worth approximately $77.5m.

24 January 2006