Name: Barracuda FX
Author: Ion Group

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Barracuda FX is an end-to-end, modular, customizable eFX trading solution designed by ION for financial institutions operating in foreign exchange markets. According to the vendor, this platform aims to automate and simplify foreign exchange connectivity, trading, pricing, distribution, and order management. Barracuda FX caters to financial institutions of various sizes, including large banks and institutions with global operations. It is utilized by professionals in banks and financial institutions, foreign exchange traders, treasury departments, asset managers, and hedge funds.

## Key Features

**Ultra-low latency FX trading solutions**: According to the vendor, Barracuda FX provides ultra-low latency connectivity to all major OTC markets, ensuring fast and efficient trading execution. The platform offers fully customizable liquidity aggregation, allowing users to access and combine liquidity from multiple sources. The vendor claims that powerful dynamic smart order routing and execution algorithms intelligently work orders to minimize slippage and market impact.

**Advanced eFX pricing, hedging, and order management**: The vendor states that Barracuda FX offers intelligent pricing engines for metals, G10, EM, and frontier markets, allowing users to inject proprietary logic throughout the pricing pipeline. The platform supports ESP, RFQ, and RFS price negotiation for spot, forward, swap, NDF, NDS, blocks, money markets, and all post-trade actions. Real-time position management and a suite of advanced rules are said to drive hedging strategies to maximize internalization opportunities.

**Connectivity and trading**: According to the vendor, Barracuda FX provides ultra-low latency connectivity to OTC markets, ensuring fast and efficient access to liquidity. The platform offers fully customizable liquidity aggregation, allowing users to access and combine liquidity from multiple sources. The vendor claims that powerful dynamic smart order routing and execution algorithms intelligently work orders to minimize slippage and market impact. The normalized API enables seamless integration of custom execution strategies. The platform also features a sophisticated crossing engine to create synthetic tradeable markets.

**Pricing, distribution, and risk**: The vendor states that Barracuda FX offers componentized intelligent pricing engines that cover metals, G10, EM, and frontier markets, enabling the injection of proprietary logic throughout the pricing pipeline. The platform supports ESP, RFQ, and RFS price negotiation for spot, forward, swap, NDF, NDS, blocks, money markets, and all post-trade actions. Deterministic low-latency price distribution is available across all internal and external distribution channels, including major multi-dealer portals. Real-time position management and advanced rules are claimed to drive hedging strategies to maximize internalization opportunities. High-performance dealer and sales desktops facilitate quote negotiation and on-behalf of dealing.

**Order management system**: According to the vendor, Barracuda FX automates the management of resting, fixing, and algorithmic orders in spot, forward, NDF, and precious metals. The system is tightly integrated with the bank's auto-risk management environment and natively connected to Order Hub. Distribution gateways are available for all major multi-dealer portals, the bank's single dealer platforms, and FIX API. The system supports automated management of resting, fixing, and algorithmic orders in spot, forward, NDF, and precious metals. It provides native access to Order Hub for seamless connectivity.

Barracuda FX, now an ION brand after the Broadway Technologies acquisition (and later acquisition of that company by ION) delivers specialised Order Management Systems to clients across the FX markets.

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