DIGITEC: FX pricing, swaps workflows and market-data connectivity

DIGITEC supplies the pricing and workflow software used by bank FX desks to build forward curves, distribute prices and manage interdealer swaps orders. Its D3 product family connects market data, curve construction and downstream trading systems. The relevant customers are institutional trading, sales, quant and market-data teams; the service is purchased as technology for those businesses.[1]

The practical distinction within D3 is who creates a price, who adjusts it for a client and who can only view it. The central pricing engine holds common definitions and calculations so that connected desks can work from the same foundation. Individual modules then provide different controls and interfaces rather than identical access for every user.[2]

The market-data business supplies inputs and historical evidence alongside the software. DIGITEC describes the live feeds as aggregated bank pricing, with anonymisation, filtering, holiday treatment and removal of outliers. That makes them reference inputs for price formation and reasonability analysis; a reference curve by itself is not a counterparty’s commitment to execute a trade.[9]

There are three different connection jobs in the product family: bringing data into pricing, sending calculated rates to other systems, and placing orders at an execution venue. D3 Elements handles incoming and outgoing rates and can also forward normalised feeds without constructing a curve. D3 OMS handles the venue-facing order workflow. These functions should be matched to the desk’s existing systems separately.[7][8]

No numerical D3 software tariff was established in the inspected public material. DIGITEC describes monthly subscriptions for D3 Lite and customisable subscriptions for its data feeds, while product pages direct enquiries to the company. Those facts establish packaging and purchase routes; they do not establish an all-in monthly cost, a free trial or a standard cancellation term.[22][10][19]

DIGITEC’s July 2026 account of its delivery model describes D3 as SaaS, with hosting, resilience, support and capability updates handled by the provider. The same core can serve a local desk or multiple trading rooms. This identifies the current marketed delivery model; deployment geography, customer-specific acceptance criteria and contractual recovery objectives still need to come from the service agreement.[14]

For ongoing operation, the SaaS description says new capability reaches platform clients without customer-run upgrade projects. That is a delivery statement, not a published change-notification schedule. The public pages reviewed do not specify rollback windows, production release approval rights, data-location commitments or an exit-service timetable.[14]

The company identifies teams in Hamburg, London and Singapore and says these offices support its international clients. Public contact routes are available for sales and general enquiries. A contracted incident escalation matrix, severity-based response commitments and a staffed support timetable were not established from those public contact pages.[23][19]

The service reviewed here is financial-market software and data supply. The legal notice identifies DIGITEC Financial Technologies and Services GmbH and Hamburg commercial-register reference HRB 288 18. That company-registration disclosure is not a financial-services authorisation, and no financial permission is assigned to DIGITEC in this profile on that basis.[18]

D3’s ability to connect to a market does not replace the user’s venue access, trading relationships or data rights. Likewise, audit trails and reasonability analysis are operational tools rather than a regulator’s approval of the customer’s pricing process. The profile’s service categories describe the technology supplied; they do not imply that DIGITEC provides prime brokerage, client custody or a retail trading account.[8][9]

The published privacy policy concerns personal data and use of the website. It identifies a data-protection contact and describes handling of enquiries and retention subject to purpose and legal requirements. It should not be read as the complete security specification, processing agreement or data-retention schedule for a production D3 service.[20]

DIGITEC traces its founding to 1980 and is headquartered in Hamburg. In December 2025, it announced a completed minority investment by funds advised by EMH Partners, with the founding Joost family retaining majority ownership. The announcement does not disclose the consideration or ownership percentage. Its collaboration with 360T is a product partnership, not evidence that DIGITEC is owned by Deutsche Börse.[17]

Peer Joost is identified as CEO. The September 2026 announcement adds Matthis Schneegass as CFO and Managing Director, reporting to Joost. The legal notice also names both managing directors. The company’s public statement that it serves more than 50 banks and financial-services firms is a vendor-reported scale indicator, not an independently audited market-share measure.[24][18][23]

Operator

DIGITEC Financial Technologies and Services GmbH; the website also lists DIGITEC Ltd.

Service scope

D3 pricing, curve and client-pricing workflows, interdealer swaps OMS, rate connectivity and joint market-data products. Institutional technology and data supply; execution venue admission is separate.

Customer types

Bank FX trading desks; FX sales teams; Quantitative and market-data teams; Financial-services firms

Delivery

SaaS; Hosted; API; Managed service

Pricing publication

Not disclosed

Headquarters

Hamburg, Germany

Platforms

D3 Pricing; D3 Sheets; D3 Curves; D3 Channels; D3 Websheets; D3 Elements; D3 OMS; D3 Lite; D3 DataHub

Pricing scope

Monthly Lite subscriptions and customisable data subscriptions are described; no public numerical tariff or complete commercial terms were established. Integration and redistribution rights require the applicable contract.

Implementation

Current delivery is marketed as SaaS. DataHub has UAT and production environments. Lite describes IP whitelisting and training; its launch-in-days claim is package specific.

Support

Sales and general email, telephone and contact form. Teams in Hamburg, London and Singapore. Public sources did not establish contracted support hours or response targets.

Permissions and regulatory scope

Software and data provider. The legal notice gives a Hamburg company registration, which is not treated as a financial permission. Connected venues and customer trading arrangements have separate scopes.

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Special dates and intervention controls

Forward-curve work needs more than standard monthly tenors. The FAQ documents broken-date and cross calculations and manual or automatic treatment of central-bank meetings and quarter turns. D3 Curves additionally allows adjustments at arbitrary dates and modelling of turn-of-year effects. These functions let a desk represent discontinuities instead of relying only on a smooth generic curve.[21][4]

D3 Sheets describes live checks for off-market prices, exclusion of suspect inputs and withdrawal of an entire published stream. Those controls are useful operational distinctions from simply viewing market data. Public descriptions do not provide a measured end-to-end shutdown time or guarantee that every connected destination processes a withdrawal simultaneously.[3]

Read-only access, records and coverage boundaries

Websheets can show swap points, daily points, spreads in basis points, cross components, amounts, dates and status information. It also supports batches of price requests and inspection of historic rollover and par-forward pricing. This is the sales-facing query layer; permissions should reflect the documented read-only role when internal teams are given access.[6]

HDF supplies historical observations and traceability of exported prices through the audit software and an API. The public material does not state a universal retention period or post-termination retrieval right. The availability of historical data during a subscription therefore should not be assumed to settle the separate question of records available after the contract ends.[12]

Two public pages give different maximum SDF horizons: the dedicated feed description says two years, while the Lite page describes coverage reaching five years. Currency availability on Lite is subscription dependent. These are retained as a documentation discrepancy; the profile does not substitute a single assumed entitlement for the package-specific specification.[10][22]

Older settlement documentation

The FAQ still contains DeaLane material about SWIFT confirmation/payment queues, supervisor visibility and XML output. Its linked trade-settlement page returned an unavailable page during this review, while the current principal product navigation emphasises pricing, data and OMS. Those legacy descriptions therefore do not establish that a new DeaLane deployment is currently offered.[21]