Case Study: LMAX Exchange achieves sub‑millisecond FX trading, reduced risk, and lower infrastructure costs with Informatica Ultra Messaging

Provided retail traders with pricing transparency, market depth, neutrality and control

LMAX Exchange is an FCA-authorised, award-winning multilateral trading facility for FX serving retail brokers, funds, corporates, asset managers and banks. Faced with the need to increase trading flow, reduce buyer/seller risk, boost operational efficiency and trim hardware costs, LMAX had to manage massive scale across retail and institutional markets and central clearing while building an exchange that was both extremely fast and feature-rich.

By using Informatica Ultra Messaging and Edge Data Streaming as the core low-latency communications layer, LMAX delivered institutional-grade transparency, market depth and neutrality to retail traders, plus an API for algorithmic access. The platform consistently executed trades below 1 millisecond, reduced trading risk, eliminated single points of failure, improved operational excellence and dramatically lowered infrastructure costs.

LMAX

Andrew Phillips

Director of Technical Operations