CEO, Alan F. Schwarz caught up with Gerald Segal of FX News Group to discuss the recent announcement of functionality being added to support Algos and Allocations over the API.
FNG Exclusive Interview… In January FNG carried news that FX streaming aggregation service provider FXSpotStream was adding functionality to support FX Algos and Allocations over its API. While that might sound technical to some, it is transformational from the bank owned consortium’s perspective. So we thought that it would be a good time to catch up with FXSpotStream CEO Alan Schwarz, and ask him to explain.
Here is what Alan had to say – on FX algos, liquidity, managing through COVID, and a whole lot more!
Read the full interview here.
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