UPDATE: BofAML Rolls Out EESAT Options COB Data Screens to Buy-Side, Broker Clients
Bank of America Merrill Lynch will roll out EESAT's options complex order book data screens to its client base.
Gary Hunt, director of execution services at BofAML says the deal is in response to demand for the data from clients wanting access to growing liquidity on complex order books.
EESAT began talking to BofAML around the end of the first quarter this year, and spent around three months connecting to the bank's routing infrastructure to allow clients to seamlessly trade the spread contracts displayed on OptEx via the bank.
"We worked for around three months to perform the FIX certifications so that
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