Tendencies in Functioning of Trading Platforms at Foreign Exchange and Capital Market

Abstract

The development of the financial markets is closely related to the innovation in methods of concluding financial transactions. The inflow of new investors, who are responsible for increasing in the number of transactions, would not be possible without technological progress in the area of market volume. Among the financial markets, these are the foreign exchange market and capital market that outstand in terms of solutions aimed at facilitating trade to their participants. Their architecture is evolving, causing that beyond the traditional ways of making transaction, investors are also provided with modern channels to carry out financial operations. This paper aims to characterise such new channels and confront them with traditional methods, as well as to show the differences in the functioning of the trading platforms on the foreign exchange market and capital market. Analysis of statistical data on the structure of turnover in both markets and the principles of the largest global trading platform was used as the research method.