ForexQ.com
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According to its official website, ABEX is a London-based company that builds machine-learning-driven algorithms for digital assets and an ultra-low-latency, high-frequency trading engine written in C++. The company describes itself as an impartial, programmatic agent acting for its clients; noting that crypto liquidity is fragmented across centralised exchanges, ECNs, market makers, OTC desks and DeFi protocols, it routes orders across these venues and provides Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) and reporting tools. Its services are for institutional clients only: on the buy side hedge funds, asset managers and quant funds, on the sell side OTC desks and brokers, while custodians, exchanges, prime brokers, ECNs and OMS/EMS platforms can offer the algorithms to their own clients as partners. Fees are based on executed volume. The site says ABEX Capital UK Limited is registered with the FCA under the Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs) as a cryptoasset business that exclusively provides a cryptoasset exchange and custodian wallet service (FRN 933825), with further approvals being sought in the EU, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific; the FCA's MLR registration is an anti-money-laundering registration, not an investment-services licence, and FOS/FSCS protection does not apply to these activities. The group's ABEX HK Limited in Hong Kong only supplies technology and software. This information is the company's own statement.