ICAP, the world's leading provider of trading technology solutions to the professional spot FX and precious metals communities, facilitates access to the EBS platform through its EBS Spot, EBS Spot Ai (Automated FX interface), and EBS Prime services.

EBS Spot is a screen-based anonymous dealing system for professional dealers, operating during global trading hours. EBS Spot:

  • Supports trading in foreign exchange and precious metals
  • Displays prices pre-screened for credit, so prices shown are available to you
  • Displays, for information purposes, the best prices available in the market
  • Permits viewing and -trading on the same screen at the same time
  • Displays up to six price panels per page
  • Includes online display of dealer's deals and EBS done deals (paid and given)
  • Combines the latest electronic trading technology with optional audible price announcements
  • Features a fast, easy and intuitive keypad
  • Enables deals to be completed with minimal keystrokes
  • Provides the security of a proprietary network
  • Provides access to Dow Jones news services
ICAP EBS Prime Software

EBS Spot Ai (Automated FX interface) is an automated trading tool that provides direct electronic access between the customer's trading system and thousands of FX counterparties on the EBS platform. Delivered through a state-of-the-art API, EBS Spot Ai provides a direct two-way interface with the global FX market on the EBS platform, enabling model/program trading and the maintenance of a 24-hour book.

EBS Prime gives customers access to trade on the optimum liquidity and prices on the award-winning electronic EBS trading platform - prices that might otherwise be unavailable to them - by enabling them to view the market through the pre-screened credit of an EBS Prime bank. EBS Prime customers contract directly with an EBS Prime bank to use their credit and trade on the best FX and metals prices. The commercial arrangement between the EBS Prime customer and the EBS Prime bank is independent of ICAP. Customers pay either as a fee to their EBS Prime bank or as a spread added to the dealt price on the EBS Prime customer's deal ticket. They also pay a standard transaction fee to ICAP.

  • Increase revenue opportunities
  • Enhance their competitive position in the global trading arena
  • See and trade on previously unavailable prices
  • Access tighter prices and greater depth of liquidity from the world's leading market-making banks
  • Access exceptional FX market information - global price distribution relies on EBS Spot, the true view of the market
  • Increase probability of order execution
  • Benefit from Straight Through Processing capabilities
  • Access a secure, reliable and orderly market

Manual traders can also access the global FX liquidity pool via EBS Global Access, ICAP's brand-new, web-based trading application that leverages the public internet as an alternative access point to the EBS platform.