Exclusive interview with Ilia Iarovitcyn on cBridge

Spotware CEO Ilia Iarovitcyn sat down with TradeInformer to discuss the launch of cBridge, a standalone and platform-agnostic liquidity bridge.

He also explained how cBridge helps brokers reduce bridge costs by up to 80% and place risk management at the centre of their operations.

Key takeaways

• Why Spotware launched cBridge: For years, cTrader offered direct connectivity to liquidity providers within the platform, but clients were consistently asking for a standalone bridge with broader functionality beyond basic liquidity routing. cBridge is the direct response to that demand, marking Spotware's evolution into a multi-product company.

• Platform-agnostic by design: cBridge connects to any trading platform – MT4, MT5, cTrader. Alongside this, it supports FIX API Taker, includes an anti-fraud service and other tools designed to meet broker demand for a clean and simple brokerage infrastructure setup.

• Up to 80% cost reduction: The pricing model is built on a simple principle – bridge fees should reflect the actual infrastructure resources required to run a bridge, rather than being directly tied to trading volumes. Such an approach helps brokers cut costs by up to 80% compared to a legacy provider.

• Risk management at the core: Our goal is for cBridge to become a cornerstone of risk management, not just a pass-through liquidity bridge connecting platforms and liquidity providers, but a system that can do everything a broker needs, like segregating toxic flow, automatically applying routing rules to different trader cohorts and delivering markouts reporting integrated with automated smart routing optimisation.

• Migration handled by Spotware: When a broker moves to cBridge, our team handles a large share of the work: setup transfer, configuration mapping, installation, and support with exposure migration. The goal is to take the migration burden off the broker so it doesn't become a blocker.

• Prop firm support: Prop firms tend to put more emphasis on features that help them manage pricing and execution rules, like custom market depth, automated markup management and scheduling. cBridge was built to support those requirements and cover everything they need.

• Enterprise-grade hosting: Both cTrader and cBridge run on Spotware’s own institutional-grade infrastructure in Equinix data centres. That means brokers do not need to manage hosting and maintenance themselves or allocate dedicated system administrator and DevOps resources to support it. We remove that operational burden for clients, reduce their infrastructure costs and can therefore offer a fixed pricing model.

This article was originally published by TradeInformer. Read it in full here.