MetaQuotes has added a new institutional liquidity provider, Luramic, to the MetaTrader 5 ecosystem, routing its order flow natively through the platform's built-in Ultency infrastructure. Luramic streams pre-aggregated liquidity across foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, metals, commodities and equity indices, MetaQuotes said on Wednesday.The provider offers brokers, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms a single connection to liquidity drawn from market makers and electronic trading venues, in place of wiring up several providers and running their own aggregation. It joins the roster of names feeding an Ultency adoption wave that already includes LMAX, GMG Prime, Vantage and Scope Prime.Another Provider Native to the PlatformBecause Luramic connects inside MT5 rather than through a separate bridge, brokers can turn it on without external gateways or third-party aggregators, the company said. That is the model behind Ultency, the MT5 aggregation engine MetaQuotes priced at $1 per $1 million of traded volume.Luramic said its infrastructure runs from Equinix data centers in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore, linked to Ultency over dedicated cross-connects. It put latency between a broker's server and its own systems as low as a few hundredths of a millisecond in certain deployments, a figure the company supplied and tied to specific setups.Ioanna Leptou, Luramic's Head of Regulated Operations, said the firm helps brokers "launch faster, optimize more efficiently, and scale with confidence."MetaQuotes Chief Executive Renat Fatkhullin added the addition gives brokers "another efficient source of institutional liquidity."MetaQuotes Keeps Liquidity Inside MT5The addition deepens a pattern at MetaQuotes of holding liquidity connectivity native to its platform rather than leaving it to outside software. Each new Ultency provider feeds flow through the built-in engine instead of a separate bridge.That approach has pressured the independent vendors that built businesses around MT5. Finance Magnates has reported that third-party bridge providers face a pricing squeeze from MetaQuotes as it folds more of the liquidity layer into its own stack.Those vendors have not stood still. oneZero shipped a major update to its Hub aggregation software as it defends its position among MT5 brokers.Centroid has pushed the same way, connecting its bridge to GBE Prime for faster execution, while Gold-i and PrimeXM round out a field now competing against the platform owner itself.What Connecting CostsLuramic set out a usage-based price for its liquidity. It quoted a fee from $7 per $1 million of monthly trading volume, falling toward $5 per $1 million as volume rises, with a minimum monthly charge of $2,000, according to the company. Those charges cover Luramic's liquidity service and are separate from what MetaQuotes bills for Ultency transport.Luramic Ltd is incorporated in Mauritius and authorized by the country's Financial Services Commission as an investment dealer, a full-service dealer license that excludes underwriting, according to the company. The FSC's online register lists licensed firms for verification, and the mandate places the provider in an offshore jurisdiction rather than a European or UK regime.Luramic did not identify the market makers behind its aggregated feed, name its backers, or say when it began operating. Its arrival gives MetaQuotes one more liquidity source inside MT5 at a point when the platform is steering more of that business through Ultency.This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.