Futures, and increasingly options, are being executed on automated platforms.

Demand for electronic trading venues is accelerating due to “the need to aggregate liquidity and apply transaction cost analysis to identify the best trading venues and demonstrate value to investors,” Paolo Gilardi, head of foreign exchange sales at TradingScreen, told Markets Media.

“Although FX futures are traded electronically quite extensively, few platforms integrate FX futures and FX cash on the same system, as we do,” said Gilardi.

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Markets Media - Steve Marlin - December 1, 2011