Customers who use Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) to access BATS will have access to order entry using a subset of the FIX 4.2 protocol as well a real-time information about executions and real-time full depth of book quotations and execution information.
Ken Conklin, senior vice president in charge of sales and marketing at Bats Trading, said: We are glad to announce the SFTI link and look forward to providing SFTI users with access to Bats’ ever-growing pools of liquidity.
Sam Johnson, executive vice president of NYSE Euronext and chief executive of NYSE TransactTools, said: We are always looking to add market centers and exchanges that will benefit SFTI customers. As one of the fastest growing top tier equity market centers, Bats is a welcome addition.
