LMAX - News, Articles & Research

Institutional players back digital asset clearing house ClearToken

ClearToken, a London-based clearing house for global digital assets, has secured a $10 million funding round with support from Laser Digital, the digital asset subsidiary of Nomura, several global liquidity providers including Flow Traders and GSR, and leading digital asset firms LMAX Digital and Zodia Custody.

13 March 2024

Company announcement/regulation

LMAX secures licence in Singapore

LMAX Group, a leading operator of institutional exchanges for trading FX and digital assets, today announces that its subsidiary, LMAX Exchange Singapore, has received a Recognised Market Operator (RMO) Licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

22 November 2023

Company announcement/crypto

LMAX Group expands tech infrastructure in APAC

LMAX Group, the leading operator of institutional exchanges for trading FX and digital assets, is expanding its global technology infrastructure in Asia Pacific following the launch of a matching engine in the Equinix IBX Data Centre in Singapore (SG1).

18 November 2022

Company announcement/crypto

LMAX Group to launch 24/7 traded crypto futures in partnership with SIX

LMAX Group, the leading operator of institutional exchanges for FX and crypto currency trading, has partnered with SIX, one of Europe’s leading operators of Financial Market Infrastructures, to launch cash-settled, centrally cleared crypto-asset futures (“crypto futures”).

17 March 2022

Company announcement/people

Sean Cleary joins LMAX Group

LMAX Group (or “the Company”), the leading independent operator of institutional execution venues for FX and crypto currency trading, has appointed Sean Cleary as Head of Liquidity Management and Analytics for Americas.

10 January 2022

Company announcement/crypto

LMAX Group enters the DeFi space as a market data provider to the Pyth Network

LMAX Group, the leading independent operator of institutional execution venues for FX and cryptocurrency trading, today announces that it has joined the Pyth Network (“Pyth”), a decentralised financial market data distribution network.

22 June 2021

Finextra TV/predictions

Capital Markets, Crypto & Central Bank Digital Currencies in 2021

LMAX Group’s David Mercer speaks to FinextraTV about how Bitcoin’s surge over the last few months can be attributed to investors seeking an inflationary hedge in the face of unprecedented government spending and printing of money by central banks, how Bitcoin's maturity as an asset class is likely to progress in 2021 and what role the value of cryptocurrencies will play in ongoing discussion and development around central bank digital currencies.

11 February 2021

Company announcement

LMAX Digital celebrates 1 year anniversary

LMAX Digital, part of the LMAX Exchange Group, is celebrating its one-year anniversary as the first physical cryptocurrency exchange dedicated exclusively to serving institutional clients.

13 May 2019

Company announcement

LMAX posts 135% increase in operating profit in 2018

LMAX Exchange Group (“LMAX Exchange” or “the Company”), a leading independent operator of institutional exchanges for electronic FX trading and crypto currencies, reports excellent growth and record financial performance for the year ended 31st December 2018.

21 March 2019