What is Turquoise?
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Turquoise is a trading platform owned by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in partnership with several major investment banks. It’s a hybrid system that encompasses trading both on and off traditional exchanges, and was launched to offer dealing services at a discounted price to formal exchanges.
Where have you heard about Turquoise?
It was set up in 2008 by a consortium of some of the world’s biggest and most well-known banks - BNP Paribas, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Société Générale and UBS.
What you need to know about Turquoise.
Based in London, Turquoise is a European-wide platform. It offers a broad range of 4,300 stocks, with access to 19 major European and emerging markets, as well as US stocks, ETFs and European rights issues.
Turquoise is powered by super-sophisticated technology provided by MillenniumIT, a subsidiary of the LSEG. It’s one of the fastest trading platforms in the world, offering average end-to-end trading of less than 125 microseconds.
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