company industry financial services founded 29 october 2010 2010 10 29 headquarters london united kingdom services foreign exchange trading forex fx online forex trading parent hirose tusyo inc. japan website http hiroseuk.com hirose financial uk ltd. is a uk based retail foreign exchange broker that provides foreign exchange forex fx trading on margin through its own online trading platform called lion trader . it is a subsidiary of japanese fx company hirose financial that provides online trading solution to forex traders . contents 1 history 2 business model 3 technology 4 references 5 external links history edit hirose company called hirose tusyo was incorporated in japan in 2004 to offer foreign exchange trading and investment services after regulatory changes in japan allowing retail forex trading . 1 hirose focused on the utilization of its japanese based products to grow a its business within an environment of a large number of competitors . 1 as result as at 2011 hirose s global number of client accounts exceed 120 000 and trading volume reached 76 billion . 1 in 2010 hirose decided to expand outside its home country by setting up hirose financial uk and becoming the first japanese forex broker licensed in london uk . 2 3 business model edit hirose financial uk is a ndd no dealing desk and stp straight through processing forex broker . this means that client orders are routed directly to liquidity providers banks other financial institutions and hirose does not act as a market maker . technology edit hirose s trading platform lion is based on the act forex acttrader system which can facilitate trades over single or multiple client terminals pc based web based android phones iphone and ipad . 4 it also provides traders with custom indicators trading algos eas and programmable strategies as an alternative to metatrader . 4 hirose uses oracle coherence an in memory data grid products to improve execution performance . 5 the application server also uses an oracle weblogic server . 5 references edit a b c siddiqui adil . trading platform charting package research tools oh and don t forget the meat hirose fx uk . forex magnates . retrieved march 5 2012 . http life.oricon.co.jp rank certificate fx japanese fsa register hirose financial uk limited . a b acttrader vs metatrader acttrader forexbrokers . a b hirose fx . external links edit hirose financial uk hirose tusyo japan japanese retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hirose financial & oldid 666501943 categories financial services companies based in londonforeign exchange companiesfinancial derivative trading companieshidden categories articles with japanese language external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 june 2015 at 16 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view