LMAX Group is a global fintech company providing institutional trading platforms for FX and cryptocurrency markets. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, it delivers ultra-low latency infrastructure and transparent execution for clients in over 100 countries.
The group includes three key business lines: LMAX Exchange (a regulated FX exchange for institutions), LMAX Global (a broker for FX and commodities), and LMAX Digital — a regulated spot crypto exchange offering secure access to digital assets like BTC, ETH, and more.
With offices in major financial hubs including New York, Tokyo, and Singapore, LMAX Group is building a leading cross-asset exchange infrastructure that bridges traditional and digital finance.
Technology key differentiators
- Precise, superior execution
- Ultra -low latency exchange infrastructure
- Reliable, robust, scalable technology with ongoing performance optimisation
- Integrated with leading trading technology providers
- Key LMAX Group technologies, including Disruptor, have been open-sourced
Latency, capacity and resilience
- Average internal exchange latency is under 85μs
- Exchange uptime is 100%
- Processing capacity (orders/sec): 800,000 peak, 100,000 sustained
- 700,000 risk calculations/second
- High capacity achieved through a distributed, transactional service oriented architecture based on high performance publish and subscribe messaging
- High availability is achieved through resilience at all levels
- Scalable architecture with room for growth to meet increasing demand
Reliable and robust platform
We employ the latest techniques to ensure high software quality, including test driven development, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment.
Our CI private cloud system constantly runs a battery of over 60,000 functional, acceptance, security and performance tests against the code base to ensure, monitor and improve quality of execution.
This is matched with the use of industry leading automated deployment and server configuration management to ensure that the platform matches the code in quality of build.
