Market data is the new battleground in FX

Innovation in the space has been lagging for years, despite high costs, but challengers are now emerging

Tim Cartledge at Barclays
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Several foreign exchange trading venues are sharpening their focus on market data provision in a bid to boost competition in the space, which has seen costs increasing from already high levels as fragmentation has taken hold of the currency trading industry.

Despite the costs associated with sourcing, handling and managing data, as well as direct fees to platforms, innovation in the space lagged until now. But suddenly, initiatives such as the Foreign Exchange Central Tape (FXCT), a new version

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