Hirose Financial UK Ltd.
Hirose Financial UK Ltd. is a global financial brokerage company based in London, United Kingdom. Established in 2010 and a subsidiary of one of the most successful FX companies in Japan, Hirose Financial provides a simple, multinational online trading solution to the global FX market. It provides foreign exchange (forex, fx) trading on margin through its own online trading platform (called LION Trader). Hirose serves individual and corporate clients to trade on global foreign exchange market.
Background
Hirose Company (called Hirose Tusyo) was incorporated in Japan in 2004, to offer foreign exchange trading and investment services. Hirose has focused on the utilization of its Japanese based products, which have the quality, advanced technology, and outstanding customer service to grow a significant business in a challenging commercial environment. As result, Hirose’s global number of client accounts exceed 120,000 and trading volume reached $76 billion in 2011. In 2012, Hirose also received first place for customer satisfaction in the Oricon FX rankings.
To promote Hirose brand globally, Hirose Financial UK was established in 2010, and became the first Japanese forex broker in London, UK, who owned FSA regulation.
License
Hirose Financial is authorized and regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) with registration number 540244. Regulatory information on Hirose is available from the FSA website. The company is registered in England & Wales, registration number 7423885.
Business model
Hirose Financial UK is a NDD (No Dealing Desk) and STP (straight-through processing) forex broker. Its means that client orders are routed directly to liquidity providers (banks, other financial institutions) without needing to pass through the dealing desk and allows traders to have the access to real time market quotes.
Features
The LION Trading platform is based on the Act Forex (ActTrader) system, which can facilitate trades over single or multiple client terminals (PC based, web based, Android phones, iPhone, and iPad). The platform is fully customizable and offers everything that a trader requires. It also provides traders with custom indicators, trading algos/EAs and programmable strategies as an alternative to MetaTrader. There is an FXapps function, which is a one stop shop for algorithmic trading strategies and indicators that traders can download.
Technology
Hirose has been able to achieve a significant execution speed (over 99%) by adopting a systems strategy using "Oracle Coherence," one of Oracle's in-memory data grid products, which can develop trading system to ensure high execution performance. By using it, the hardware performance is possible to be pushed to the limit. The application server also has a unified system in Oracle including an "Oracle WebLogic Server".