Quod Financial’s Adaptive FX Platform Selected by Banque de France

Quod Financial, a provider of adaptive trading technology, today announced that France’s central bank, Banque de France, has selected its Adaptive FX platform (AFX) as its core foreign exchange trading and Liquidity Liquidity The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent Read this Term management system.

Quod said it looks forward to enabling Banque de France to achieve its business objectives while furthering its position as a trusted partner to central banks and sovereign institutions around the globe.

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After a restricted tender process, the central bank selected Quod Financial in light of its strong technical fit, cross-asset end-to-end functionality and ability to support capital markets operations of multiple central banks on one single platform.

AFX provides all the tools essential for navigating a complex and highly fragmented FX world in one single solution. The platform addresses the needs of different classes of users, providing benchmarks, transaction cost analysis, and execution strategies to allow users to build and adapt trading strategies according to their specific workflows.

For institutions providing custom pools of liquidity to clients, the solution provides real-time algorithmic pricing and internal liquidity management. In addition, system-wide data can be collected and reused for Quod’s artificial intelligence trading algorithms.

Commenting on the news, Mickael Rouillère, the Chief Technology Officer at Quod said: "Banque de France is a technology innovator and the logic of this project is to stay ahead of the rapid changes in the capital markets. Banque de France wants full control on how it provides liquidity to the market, with minimal information leakage, and powerful surveillance tools and ability to analyze events. We used Quod Financial AFX to quickly customize to Banque de France requirements. Banque de France is a leading central bank in Europe; we consider this project as a big milestone".