01.25.2024

Blue Ocean Selects MEMX for ATS Technology

01.25.2024
Blue Ocean Selects MEMX for ATS Technology

Blue Ocean Technologies, LLC (BOT), a unique capital markets fintech leader in global afterhours trading, and MEMX, a market operator founded by a diverse group of participants to benefit all investors, announced they have reached an agreement for a technology partnership. As part of the arrangement, MEMX will provide BOT its sophisticated market-as-a-service trading system to operate the Blue Ocean ATS global trading platform. The technology will be implemented by the end of Q1 2024.

Matthew Horisk, Chief Information and Operating Officer of Blue Ocean Technologies, commented, “As we continue our global trading evolution, we are delighted to see the Blue Ocean electronic trading mission adopted across borders. The growth in our volume this year has validated our business model and has led us to today’s exciting technology partnership with MEMX, which will help drive our platform to new heights. MEMX’s next generation trading system offers resilience and redundancies for a new level of trading innovation needed to implement our 2024 goals. It is a pleasure to work with experienced and like-minded industry veterans that share in our vision of providing investors new trading benefits and opportunities despite their geographic location.”

“We are delighted to have been selected as Blue Ocean’s technology partner,” said MEMX’s CEO Jonathan Kellner. “Our recently launched market technology business is yet another way in which MEMX seeks to improve the trading experience for all market participants, and the rapid growth of this business validates an industry-wide need for this offering. We believe that MEMX’s best-in-class technology will be highly additive to Blue Ocean’s operations and look forward to working with them in this exciting time of global growth.”

Licensing the same proven technology that powers MEMX’s US equity and options exchanges, market technology clients can quickly launch new market centers or upgrade their existing technology to MEMX’s high performance, low latency, deterministic platform. MEMXs technology platform is asset class agnostic, decoupling transaction, data and messaging from any implementation specific business constructs or logic while supporting client defined operating hours and market sessions.

Throughout 2023, Blue Ocean Technologies has continued to expand globally extending its trading model in Asia-Pacific. With partnerships in South KoreaHong Kong, and Japan, Blue Ocean is focused on empowering international investors seeking broader access to US equities.

Source: Blue Ocean

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