Calyon Financial, JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers and Refco join the existing seven companies utilizing the platform, set up to enable trading between sell-side brokers in the FX market and electronic CME FX futures market.

CME and Reuters also announced that the service will start to go live in the Asia Pacific region over the next two weeks in key financial centers including Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.

Michael McCorkle, Reuters treasury business manager, said: This initiative brings more value to the Reuters Dealing community beyond the successful spot and forward foreign exchange products to include FX futures.