If you operate as a forex broker, or build the infrastructure behind one, the rate feed is load-bearing for three different jobs at once: the live price a client sees, the conversion math behind a trade, and the end-of-day reconciliation in the back office. Those jobs have different tolerances, and they all have to agree on the same underlying rate.
The problem
Forex brokers and the infrastructure behind them need a continuous, reliable rate source for client-facing pricing, conversion, and end-of-day reconciliation: majors, minors, exotics, and metals, all on one clock.
How SiftingIO handles it
Forex covers the four global sessions in one continuous stream, with majors, minors, emerging-market exotics, and precious metals under the same schema. End-of-day fixings give a reference level for reconciliation, and deterministic weekend behavior keeps pricing screens honest when the market is closed.
Majors, minors, exotics, and metals on one stream
Rather than sourcing major pairs from one place and exotics or metals from another, SiftingIO carries the full set under one schema. The four global sessions arrive as a single continuous stream, so a client in any region sees a coherent rate instead of a patchwork that changes character as liquidity moves around the world through the trading day.
End-of-day fixings for the back office
Live pricing is only half the job; reconciliation needs a defensible reference level that everyone agrees on. End-of-day fixings give the back office a fixed point to value and reconcile against, delivered through the same API as live and historical data. Finance and the trading screen draw from one source rather than arguing across two spreadsheets that were pulled at different moments.
A paper trail for every quoted rate
When a client disputes a fill, or a regulator asks how a price was formed, you need to point at a specific rate read at a specific time. Audit logs on Pro and above record every credential read with a timestamp, so a quoted rate can be tied back to the exact feed read that produced it, rather than reconstructed from memory.