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Straits Financial Services Pte Ltd has announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Integral to enhance its precious metals and foreign exchange trading infrastructure across Asia. The brokerage, headquartered in Singapore, said the move reflects its broader strategy to scale trading operations and deliver competitive pricing through advanced technology.
The expansion includes deploying Integral’s infrastructure into the SG1 data center in Singapore, which will improve execution quality and liquidity provision for clients across FX and precious metals. Straits Financial is now using Integral’s platform not only for currency trading but also to support its growing involvement in gold, silver, platinum, and palladium markets.
“Optimized pricing, superior liquidity aggregation, and streamlined operational efficiencies”
Susan Quek, Vice President and Head of Sales at Straits Financial Services, said, “We have experienced first-hand the substantial impact Integral’s tech can have on precious metals and FX trading operations, offering optimized pricing, superior liquidity aggregation, and streamlined operational efficiencies. As we expand our presence in the precious metals space, we need to ensure our trading infrastructure can be tailored to the needs of the specific markets our customers operate in – and the scalability and reliability of Integral’s technology provides exactly that. Coupled with our investment in the SG1 data centre, this milestone underscores our commitment to delivering the highest quality service to our growing client base across Asia.”
Integral’s platform offers out-of-the-box pricing functionality tailored to regional commodity trading standards, such as enabling price conversions from ounces to grams or kilograms and benchmarking against local currencies. This localization feature is particularly important in Asian markets where non-troy ounce measurements are more common.
Straits Financial began its relationship with Integral in 2019, initially leveraging the platform for FX trading and risk management. The firm now uses Integral’s solutions across liquidity aggregation, pricing, distribution, and white labeling—extending those capabilities to include precious metals.
Harpal Sandhu, CEO of Integral, commented, “Customizable to the nuances of both asset class and region, Integral’s platform can be scaled to meet the current needs of our clients, as well as their plans for future expansion. Our partnership with Straits Financial Services is a perfect example of this agility, allowing the firm to continue consolidating its position as a leading broker in the region and empowering it to thrive in the precious metals sector.”
The announcement comes amid record high gold prices and surging trading volumes, with Straits Financial positioning itself to capitalize on increased client demand for metals and FX products. The company said the expanded data center presence and integration of Integral’s technology will help ensure low-latency trading and improved price discovery for institutional and professional clients across Asia.
Straits Financial, established in 2010, is part of the Singapore-based Straits Financial Group. The company provides integrated access to global financial and commodity derivatives markets and continues to focus on building long-term client relationships through a mix of market access, technology, and regional expertise.
