EdgewaterMarkets, a non-bank gold liquidity provider, has integrated with financialtechnology company Gold-i, connecting its trading infrastructure with Gold-i'sMatrixNET liquidity management platform, the companies announced today (Thursday).Edgewater MarketsIntegrates with Gold-i's MatrixNET PlatformTheintegration allows Gold-i clients to access Edgewater's precious metals,foreign exchange (FX), and non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) liquidity, whileproviding Edgewater's clients with Gold-i's liquidity management capabilities."Ourintegration with Gold-i enables us to combine our unrivalled regional creditfacilities and trading solutions with Gold-i's powerful liquidity managementand distribution platform,” said Emanuel Georgouras, the UK CEO of Edgewater. “Itbrings together two market leading technology providers, leveraging both ourstrengths to enhance our clients' trading environments."Gold-i'sMatrixNET platform offers various routing and aggregation methods that allowusers to customize execution models based on client preferences. The system isdesigned to help institutional clients access liquidity pools, achieve betterpricing, expand their client base, and reduce toxic trading."Edgewateris a fantastic addition to our MatrixNET, giving even greater choice to ourclients," said Tom Higgins, Gold-i CEO. "Our integration withEdgewater provides our clients with access to high quality precious metals andFX liquidity with tight spreads. It enables Edgewater's clients to managementtheir liquidity with ease and access a wide range of advanced liquiditymanagement features."Gold-i Targets CryptoLast year,Gold-i made several moves in the cryptocurrency space, forming a partnershipwith Cypator and expanding its digital asset liquidity offering for FX/CFDbrokers.At the sametime, the company struck a separate deal with the crypto exchange Bullish,which recorded an average daily trading volume of $1.6 billion in 2024.In aninterview with Finance Magnates, Higgins acknowledged that "Cryptoliquidity and FX liquidity are sort of coming together," highlightingGold-i’s growing interest in Bitcoin and similar digital assets. “Whenyou've got a traditional retail FX broker, and they want to access cryptoliquidity, how do they make that happen? It's different liquidity providers;it's different ways of accessing it. The technology is similar, but you needdifferent angles on it.”EdgewaterMarkets has operated its prime brokerage business since 2006 and launched aninstitutional-only margin business in 2023 under Georgouras' leadership.Gold-i, headquartered in the UK with global operations, provides technologysolutions for brokers, funds, liquidity providers, and exchanges in both the FXand digital asset sectors.This article was written by Damian Chmiel at www.financemagnates.com.