Marex expands FX and precious metals prime brokerage. Marex Group Limited, the diversified global financial services platform, has expanded its prime services capabilities with the launch of a proprietary aggregated liquidity platform. This latest development builds on Marex's wider FX and precious metals capabilities. The platform gives hedge funds, asset managers and professional clients access to multi-dealer FX and precious metals liquidity through a single global prime brokerage relationship. By combining liquidity from multiple providers into a single access point, Marex's prime services clients can benefit from deeper liquidity, more competitive pricing, streamlined execution and seamless workflow integration, while also supporting cross-asset margin efficiencies across Marex's broader prime brokerage platform. At the core of this expanded offering is an aggregated pricing engine that consolidates live streams from multiple tier-one and specialist liquidity providers into a single executable price. This removes the need for clients to establish numerous bilateral relationships. In addition, smart-order-routing-style execution enables anonymous access to multiple liquidity pools to achieve the best available pricing. Beyond execution, the platform is designed to improve capital efficiency. Through portfolio-level cross-margining, clients can benefit from improved capital usage and balance-sheet efficiency as well as access to FX and precious metals liquidity, custody, clearing, settlement, confirmation and reconciliation through a single counterparty. The platform also supports integrated reporting and workflow connectivity across Marex's broader equity, fixed income, futures and derivatives infrastructure. Massimo Labella, co-head of international prime brokerage and outsourced trading, Marex said: "This offering strengthens our position as a cross-asset prime brokerage partner for institutional clients seeking liquidity, capital efficiency and operational simplicity. As with the expansion of our swaps capabilities and the addition of FX to our outsourced trading offering, it was developed in response to client demand, reflecting our focus on building solutions that deliver tangible value for clients." Marex Prime Services, part of Marex Group Limited, is a leading full-service institutional prime brokerage with a global multi-asset platform tailored for investment managers worldwide. It has a strong track record in supporting both emerging and established funds seeking to work with a single partner or to diversify their prime brokerage counterparties. Combining a highly personalized concierge-style service model with a comprehensive suite of award-winning services, the Prime Services team supports clients in raising capital, strengthening growth and managing risk at every stage of their journey. Services include high and low touch execution, financing, outsourced trading, operational support, capital introduction and business consulting. And receive exclusive articles on securities markets The 2026 Global Markets Choice Awards are here! Nominations are officially OPEN for the celebration of excellence in global capital markets trading & technology. Nominate below: https://www.jotform.com/form/260086385121150 Delaware Life Insurance Company is becoming the first insurance carrier to offer an index that contains cryptocurrency, adding the BlackRock U.S. Equity Bitcoin Balanced Risk 12% Index to its fixed index annuity (FIA) portfolio. As the digital assets industry pushes toward Franklin Templeton is expanding its tokenized fund suite, signaling growing institutional demand for blockchain-based fund infrastructure and regulated investment products moving onchain. Read the full article below: $50 billion in active ETF inflows helped fuel a record year for @BlackRock 's iShares business, as investors continue to lean into active strategies.

Marex expands FX and precious metals prime brokerage with new aggregated liquidity platform. Marex Group Limited ('Marex' or the 'Group'; NASDAQ: MRX), the diversified global financial services platform, has expanded its prime services capabilities with the launch of a proprietary aggregated liquidity platform. This latest development builds on Marex's wider FX and precious metals capabilities. The platform gives hedge funds, asset managers and professional clients access to multi-dealer FX and precious metals liquidity through a single global prime brokerage relationship. By combining liquidity from multiple providers into a single access point, Marex's prime services clients can benefit from deeper liquidity, more competitive pricing, streamlined execution and seamless workflow integration, while also supporting cross-asset margin efficiencies across Marex's broader prime brokerage platform. At the core of this expanded offering is an aggregated pricing engine that consolidates live streams from multiple tier-one and specialist liquidity providers into a single executable price. This removes the need for clients to establish numerous bilateral relationships. In addition, smart-order-routing-style execution enables anonymous access to multiple liquidity pools to achieve the best available pricing. Beyond execution, the platform is designed to improve capital efficiency. Through portfolio-level cross-margining, clients can benefit from improved capital usage and balance-sheet efficiency as well as access to FX and precious metals liquidity, custody, clearing, settlement, confirmation and reconciliation through a single counterparty. The platform also supports integrated reporting and workflow connectivity across Marex's broader equity, fixed income, futures and derivatives infrastructure. Massimo Labella, co-head of international prime brokerage and outsourced trading, Marex said: "This offering strengthens our position as a cross-asset prime brokerage partner for institutional clients seeking liquidity, capital efficiency and operational simplicity. As with the expansion of our swaps capabilities and the addition of FX to our outsourced trading offering, it was developed in response to client demand, reflecting our focus on building solutions that deliver tangible value for clients." Find out more about our Prime Services offering here: Prime brokerage - Marex.

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