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Kalahari launches FX futures/OTC comparison pricing service

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Kalahari, a provider of real-time pricing and analytics software for financial markets firms, has launched a FX futures and rates service, offering traders a low cost opportunity to access observable exchange prices and benefit from real-time futures versus OTC market arbitrage opportunities.

 
This new service is the first in a series of new futures/OTC comparison pricing services being introduced by Kalahari this year.
 
Other instruments include MAC Swaps for US Dollars, Euro and GBP currencies and Gold Futures pricing, to coincide with the new contracts being launched on the London Metals Exchange this June – all crossed with the OTC markets – to follow soon after.
 
The FX Futures pricing service provides real-time pricing and comparison across exchange and OTC traded FX rates for all traders, from individuals to banks, corporates, prop traders and hedge fund accounts. It builds out an FX swaps curve, comparable to the OTC FX curve, using the liquid and observable prices available in the FX Futures contract. The FX Futures benefit from depth of liquidity, being centrally cleared with reduced charges, the elimination of credit and counterparty risk and offers new Outright and spread trading opportunities across the curve.
 
As liquidity increases and the curve extends, Kalahari expects financial firms to use the market to hedge FX exposure. Exchanges will benefit through greater access to new buyers and sellers, such as FX fund managers, interbank FX traders, international asset managers, multinational corporations, speculators, day traders and individuals.  Firms now have the ability to trade, clear and report the whole lifecycle, wherever they are in the world.
 
Graham Mansfield (pictured), managing director at Kalahari, says: “Historically there has been little uptake of the quarterly International Monetary Market (IMM) dated exchange traded FX contracts, when compared to OTC FX Swaps which continue to be one of the largest and most liquid traded markets and covers most currencies and maturities.
 
“There is an increased interest in the monthly FX contracts and our new service will now provide those FX market participants with visibility and comparison to all active FX contracts. The service calculates indicative calendar spreads and merges these with actual interest from the exchange, these prices are compared to the equivalent OTC prices and signals when there is an arbitrage opportunity.”
 
The service is available to all traders via web browser or via direct feed.  

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