Refinitiv, a London Stock Exchange Group business, today announced it has launched its global electronic trading Matching service in Indonesia. The launch marks Indonesia’s first interbank electronic marketplace for the trading of Rupiah.
Refinitiv Matching is a solution that offers real-time credit screening, enhanced price discovery, concentrated liquidity and efficient execution for FX traders. This market leading Central Limit Order Book offers a new level of operation for FX traders. Refinitiv Matching is standardised and suited to the Indonesian local market conditions.
The upgraded version of Refinitiv Matching includes the integration of new features that meet emerging client and market demand. It offers users access to deeper liquidity pools, increases market participation, enhances price discovery and helps regulators maintain a fair and transparent marketplace. Refinitiv Matching will offer users in Indonesia the ability to explore liquidity sources, benchmark trades, and develop systematic FX trading strategies.
“Refinitiv has had a presence in Indonesia since 1984 and we are strongly committed to supporting an efficient, transparent and resilient financial marketplace within the country. We’re immensely proud to collaborate with Bank Indonesia (BI) and leading national banks to drive this key milestone in automating and digitizing FX trading workflows. The trust and active collaboration of the central bank and the banking community will contribute to a cost-effective and transparent interbank marketplace and is an important milestone in Bank Indonesia’s plan to build an advanced national money market in Indonesia,” said Alfred Lee, Managing Director, Data & Analytics, Asia Pacific at LSEG.
Pak Panji Irawan, Chairman of the Indonesia Foreign Exchange Market Committee and Director of Treasury and International Banking at Bank Mandiri also commented:
“We are excited to start trading USDIDR through Refinitiv Matching. This will be the beginning of the evolution of the financial market in Indonesia towards an advanced, transparent and efficient market.”