The integration offers seamless access for institutions and professional individuals looking to trade the thousands of single stock CFDs listed by CMC Connect on a direct market access basis, covering 20 exchanges across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Position monitoring and cash management is conducted on CMC’s proprietary trading platform, now supported by the Iress Order Management System to enable direct market access. With over 1000 institutions globally already plugged into Iress Viewpoint and Iress Pro, straight-through access to CMC’s single stock CFD portfolio is now available to any of these counterparties subject to their completion of the standard CMC onboarding process.

Debbie Kaye, UK head of trading at Iress, commented:

“We’re thrilled to be able to provide CMC clients with direct access to the world’s markets, as well as the capability to monitor positions in real time. It means that their users can now trade CFDs with CMC through a single platform, greatly improving the user experience and making the trading lifecycle far more efficient.”

CMC Connect continues to expand its one-stop-shop proposition, allowing institutional counterparties and professional traders from across the globe to access the widest possible range of asset classes. The integration underlines CMC’s commitment to offering truly streamlined access to its tradable universe.

Richard Elston, Group Head of Institutional at CMC Connect, added:

“We are delighted to have completed this landmark integration with Iress. The move puts the CMC Prime product array in easy reach of hundreds of financial institutions from across the globe, by allowing them to leverage their existing technology partnerships and transact with us in a way that requires limited additional resources.”