Technology

XigniteCurrencies is a web service, i.e. an electronic, on-demand, internet-based "feed" that is extremely easy to integrate with your web site. By using SOA standards like SOAP and REST, your developers can pull real-time currency exchange rates in as little as 3 lines of code and they have full control on the functionality you deploy:

• Zero Infrastructure. Since data is available on-demand, you no longer need to waste time and money setting up infrastructure.
• Easy To Integrate. By using SOA standards like SOAP and REST, developers can pull what they need in minutes instead of weeks.
• Pay-As-You-Go. Choose from our pay-as-you-go subscription models, and ensure you only pay for the data you need and use.

Reliability

XigniteCurrencies is also a proven solution with a long track record of success:

• First ever commercial currency web service introduced in 2004.
• Used 24x7 by hundreds of clients worlwide.
• Served more than 5 billions exchange rates requests to date.
• 99.9% availability guarantee available.
• Data provided by Tenfore, the world leading provider of quality market data.

Features

XigniteCurrencies provides the most sophisticated functionality of any currency web service available in the market today:

• Support for Every World Currency. Some web services support only 25 or 100 currencies. This can be a business risk as your currency needs may expand as your business grows. XigniteCurrency supports more than 170 currencies--every world currency available today. When new currencies are created (it happens more often than you may believe), those currencies are automatically added to the service.
• Real-Time Quotes. XigniteCurrencies is linked to dozens of FOREX trading desks throughout the world. You always get the most accurate, up-to-date information available when requesting a real-time rate.
• Bid/Ask Information. Currency cross-rates are provided with bid, ask and mid rates.
• Forward Rates. Forward rate information (pips) is provided for major currency pairs (optional).
• Historical Quotes. You can access historical data for most currency pairs all the way back to 2000. Additional currency pairs are available on-demand.
• Historical Bid/Ask. Historical bid/ask information is available for traded pairs back to 1/1/2004.
• "Official" Quotes. Those exchange rates are typically by the central bank of a given country and are collected once or twice daily. Currently available for the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
• Currency Converter. You can convert any amount from one currency to the another inside a single operation.
• Automatic Bridging. If a recent exchange rate is not available for a currency pair (simply because this pair has not traded recently), XigniteCurrency automatically calculates the most up-to-date rate by "bridging" the rate using major currencies like EUR or USD.
• Cross Rate Tables. You can easily obtain all the possible cross-rate possible among a list of currencies by calling any of the "Table" operations.
• Reports. You can easily list all the cross rate between a given currency and all the 170 other rates by requesting a Currency Report.
• Currency Charts. You can create fully customizable charts to display historical exchange rates between currencies. Use those charts to make your web site more appealing.