EBS is the world's leading provider of FX and precious metals transactional trading and data solutions to thousands of trading professionals and organisations.

Combining global access with technological expertise, EBS offers an unparalleled combination of innovate and user-friendly technology together with superior customer service and support. EBS is a customer-led, research and technology-driven organisation. We continually survey our customers' needs to ensure that EBS delivers the right solutions for the changing needs of the professional FX and precious metals communities. EBS' products offer true added value to the full trade life cycle - from pre-trade, trade and post-trade, EBS offers a comprehensive range of superior solutions.

Launched in September 1993 by a group of the world's largest foreign exchange market making banks, EBS is the pre-eminent provider of foreign exchange trading and market data solutions to the professional spot foreign exchange community.

EBS was acquired by ICAP, the world's largest interdealer broker, in June 2006. The acquisition will combine EBS' strengths in electronic spot foreign exchange with ICAP's Electronic Broking business to create a single global multi-product business with further growth potential and significant economies of scale. This platform will provide customers with more efficient electronic trade execution, reduced integration costs and give access to broad liquidity across a wide product range.

Today the EBS product portfolio enables more than 2,000 traders on 800 dealing floors across the globe to trade an average of USD 145 billion in spot foreign exchange transactions and an average of 700,000 oz in gold and 7 million oz in silver every day.

The acquisition of EBS by ICAP, the world's largest interdealer broker combines ICAP's suite of e-brokered Fixed Income products with the EBS Spot FX product portfolio.

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