Company / Operating context
About Us
Fortex revolutionized trading beginning in 1997, as the first independent, multi-asset trading platform to provide clients with direct, fair access to markets.
- Market structure
- Execution engineering
- Client operations
Reference model
Since then, the company has grown organically to become the leading FX trading platform with $50 billion in currency trades and 10 million tickets a day for tens of thousands of traders around the world.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Fortex taps the Valley's culture of innovation, leading engineering talent, and technology advances to continue delivering industry firsts. With deep roots on Wall Street, Fortex intimately understands the needs of currency traders, broker-dealers, and markets. And with a network footprint in Asia, Fortex helps fuel global trading.
Soon after the Fortex platform was launched, it was processing $3 billion in currency trades per day. Since then, the company has consistently added new capabilities to help its clients succeed - from middleware, APIs, and a rich array of trading consultation, analysis, and customization services to elegant end-user applications for desktop, web, or mobile trading.
Today, traders, broker dealers, liquidity providers, money managers, banks, hedge funds, and investors around the world rely on Fortex to accelerate trade execution and support sophisticated trading strategies. The most successful currency trading firms, including Interbank FX, Pepperstone, Advanced Markets, Sun Hong Kai Financial, Macquarie Bank, and others have built their FX businesses on the Fortex platform.
Fortex is headquartered in Redwood Shores, California with offices in New York and Hong Kong. The company is privately held.
“The way I was introduced to Fortex was via a major banking institution. They stated ‘we do several hundred thousand transactions a day with Fortex and never have any issues.’ What can you say about that?”
Clients
Fortex clients have at least one thing in common: success. They share a common commitment to helping their customers succeed, and in the process, have transformed the FX trading landscape. We are proud to work with such innovative clients.
In Their Own Words
On Innovation
“The Fortex team helped us launch new trading applications, resulting in more than $80 billion per month in trading volume with best-in-class execution and a great customer experience.”
“To accommodate many different clients needs, Fortex has gone over and above to develop custom set ups to handle these requests. They even increased system capacity to handle 15,000+ concurrent tickets - creating a solution for one of my accounts.”
On Reliability
“Fortex builds the technology that operates markets. A lot of players come and go, but Fortex has stood the test of time with the best quality of service possible. Fortex is the team that serious institutions go to when they need it done right.”
“Having used eight different platform technologies in 12 years of running my firm, I have never used a more stable, efficient piece of technology. No matter how you look at it, Fortex has performed like no other. We've had nearly 100% up time. Our 100% agency model requires minimal risk or exposure and I cannot recall a single time when we had exposure or trades unconfirmed that would leave us unmatched.”
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