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Headquartered in Paris, GL TRADE was founded in 1987, and ranks among the world's leading providers of financial trading software. It was the first service provider to offer price display tools adapted to the options markets, which expanded rapidly to include stocks and bonds. In 1991, GL TRADE developed its first electronic trading software. In 1997, GL TRADE entered in to the futures markets and provided the official solutions to the CME and Matif. Currently, GL TRADE has offices in 18 countries and is connected to 115 equity and derivatives markets worldwide with approximately 35,000 users. GL's products and services enable traders and financial institutions to gain competitive advantage through state of the art technology. GL TRADE solutions are used at over 1200 financial institutions including major UK, US, and French banks.

GL NET is GL TRADE's international exchange access network enabling cross-border electronic trading for members and non-members, anywhere in the world. It is the first global, neutral "private trading network" linking 115 markets and over 550 brokers for electronic execution of equities and futures in the US, Europe, and Asia. Access to GL NET can be done via GL TRADE's proprietary trading front-ends, including GL WIN, GL OMS and GL RUBYX (for market-making). GL TRADE has also developed standardized APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) in both GL TRADE and FIX Protocol format enabling institutions to integrate GL TRADE solutions with their own applications. These APIs apply to both data feeds and order entry functions.

Steve Lukes
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