14 years of Tools for Brokers

Author: Alexey Kutsenko

Tools For Brokers was established in 2010, 14 years ago. Back then, the company had one office and a handful of employees. Fast-forward to today, it’s a whole different story!

The Backstory of Tools for Brokers

The Tools For Brokers story started with the Market Depth panel – a well-known product back in the day that was integrated with MetaTrader4, allowing traders to see the market depth and what the market offerings were. Along with it was UMAM which allowed regular traders to connect with professional traders and upgrade their experience. Those two products made TFB very popular among brokers and traders.

We started to work with more brokers, getting feedback from both brokers and traders and developing more and more tools to improve the trading experience. At some point, we had as many as 200 products, including customised versions of our solutions. We’ve always been driven by delivering quality products, efficient solutions to daily tasks, and improving industry processes.

FX trading is an ever-changing industry, and we have evolved along with it.

From 2016 on, we began to open offices, communicate regularly with market participants, and understand industry needs better. Gradually, the customised versions and a variety of our products have outlived their usefulness.

We saw an opportunity and a great need in the area of risk management and decided to rebuild our offering from a selection of simple plugins, creating a comprehensive solution with an interface, database, regulatory reports, and advanced flexibility for settings and configuration.

Today, all of the solutions we have are split into three main projects: PAMM, Trade Processor, and the TFB Toolbox. They are all aimed at making brokers' and traders' lives easier, more efficient, and more transparent.

In 2024, Tools for Brokers

14 years later, we’ve managed to achieve a lot! Today, Tools for Brokers:

• Consists of a big team of 126 employees.
• Has 4 offices worldwide in Cyprus, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Georgia.
• Works with 200+ clients from more than 40 countries.
• Out of the 200, over 100 clients use our multiplatform Trade Processor liquidity bridge.
• The Trade Processor bridge supports 100+ Liquidity Providers and 5 trading platforms: MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, Match-Trader, and DXtrade.
• Provides a unique single-pane solution to manage all TFB plugins and applications – the TFB Toolbox.
• Offers professional 24/7/365 technical support that’s celebrated by the industry in 15 different languages.

Tools for Brokers in 2034

We have come a long way, but there is no stopping us!

In the upcoming decade, we plan to expand the capabilities of all our products:

• Trade Processor liquidity bridge
• Risk management system
• Data analytics and management
• TFB Toolbox for seamless TFB plugin management
• TFB PAMM money management

The industry is ever-changing, and we are excited to see what the future holds and how it shifts the technology that brokerages, liquidity providers, and prop trading companies are using. The market will be very different in 10 years, and we’re happily anticipating adding more solutions to our ecosystem.

We are also planning to open new offices, grow our team to ensure clients and partners get the most timely and professional support, and continue to learn, get better at what we do, and surprise our clients with disruptive technology.

Here is to another 10, 20 and 100 years of Tools for Brokers!