Turquoise, a pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) backed by nine investment banks, aims to expand clients’ clearing options once its current trading system upgrades make it Europe’s fastest alternative trading venue.
The MTF announced plans last Friday to deploy a new version of its matching engine and modify the infrastructure between its data centres by 6 March. The upgrade will improve Turquoise’s maximum achievable throughput by 150% and halve its latency to below one millisecond. Turquoise’s current peak capacity is 14,000 incoming messages per second.
CIO Yann L’Huillier told theTRADEnews.com that Turquoise is in discussions with Euro CCP, its central counterparty (CCP), about expanding its clearing services.
“We are working very closely with EuroCCP on trying to open multiple clearing houses, something our customers are also very bullish about,” said L’Huiller. “However, an agreement between CCPs must be agreed first. When this happens, we will connect as soon as we can.”
EMCF, a CCP owned by Fortis and exchange group Nasdaq OMX – which clears for Turquoise’s rival MTFs Nasdaq OMX Europe, BATS Europe and Chi-X – signed a memorandum of understanding this week to support interoperability with SIX x-clear, a CCP owned by Swiss financial services group SIX Group.
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