CASE STUDY

Integral BankFX

Outperform your competition

The Challenge
eFX professionals today face asignificant challenge: delivering
market-leading solutions to theirclients faster, better, with fewer
resources and no room for error.
Banks can find it a challenge todeliver state-of-the-art pricing,
distribution, risk management,and execution.

“In order to stay a stepahead of our competitors,
we needed a faster, morereliable solution for pricing.”
Norbert Kaiser, Head of FX at ODDO BHFODDO BHF is an independent
Franco-German financial services
group boasting a history stretchingover 150 years. With 2,300
employees and more than 100
billion euros in assets undermanagement, ODDO BHF faces
increasingly relentless competition.
In response to this challenge,
ODDO BHF strives to gain every
advantage possible.
They initially contacted Integral
to develop a more sophisticatedsolution to provide pricingto clients.

The Solution
Prior to working with Integral,
ODDO BHF struggled to findtechnology that did not havelatency issues, stale or inaccurate
quotes, or inverted prices.
ODDO BHF’s new FX technology
partner would have to help them: Increase revenue
 Implement a stable platform
to manage high demand andincreasing new business Operate a fully serviced
platform in order to maintaincustomer satisfaction
 Develop and implement theplatform rapidly given ODDO
BHF’s limited IT resources
 Manage costs of development
and maintenance“We can always trust the Integral
BankFX system, especially inperiods of extreme market stress.
We don’t have to worry about
latency issues, inverted prices, orour platform crashing.”

Integral provided ODDO BHF
with a world class white label
eFX integrated system based on
BankFX and OCX (Open CurrencyExchange) that supported theirdemands to serve their existingcustomers and grow new businesswith the industry’s most flexible
and reliable trading platform.
The solution includes:
 Optimal Price Distribution –Integral provided ODDO
BFH with their own branded
and customized GUI solution
providing the capability to
distribute prices both internallyand externally Best FX Prices – Using
relationship bank liquidity andunique sources Network Growth – Ability toconnect to over 200 liquidity
providers and potential
customers on the OCX network
 Cloud Hosted Solution – Zerohardware and datacenter costs,
with high reliability and ultralow latency access to market
counterparties Post Trade STP

Norbert Kaiser, Head of FX at ODDO BHF

CASE STUDY

Integral BankFX

Outperform your competition

The Results
Integral has continually worked with ODDO BHF toprovide the best solutions as their business evolves andgrows.
The results have been positive:
 Increased access to multiple sources of liquidity has
enabled ODDO BHF to provide their clients withcompetitive pricing in an increasingly crowded market
 40% growth of electronic trading volumes in 3 years
 Increased revenue in FX trading with both establishedcustomers and new markets
 Substantial cost reduction“Integral works with us todevelop features we need todeliver the best solution possible
to our customers and responds
quickly and effectively if issues
arise. Our partnership withIntegral has been critical to ourgrowth.”
Norbert Kaiser, Head of FX at ODDO BHF

About Integral
Integral is a financial technology company
that helps our customers – banks, brokers,
and asset managers – outperform theircompetition in the foreign exchange market
using our innovative solutions for workflow
management and advanced execution.
This powerful cloud-based platform is theindustry’s only answer for FX institutions
that want to design and deliver complete
solutions tailored to their businesses.

Our modern approach of addressing theentire FX lifecycle with an intelligent
platform allows our customers to achieve
the lowest transaction costs, greatest
operational efficiency, and highest yield.
Founded in 1993, Integral maintains
development, support, and sales offices
in Palo Alto, New York, London, Tokyo,
Singapore and Bangalore.

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8,417,622; 8,862,507; 9,412,134 and patentpending applications and related intellectual
property.