Spreads grab the headlines, but financial market infrastructure wins institutional trading flow

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Institutional traders place less emphasis on spread costs for index CFDs than on the quality of execution infrastructure, with technology becoming a more important competitive differentiator than relatively simple spread pricing. People associated with XTB, IC, Spreadex, Saxo Bank and CMC Markets emphasized that institutions need price aggregation, low-latency execution, smart routing, automated hedging, reliable APIs, risk controls and resilience under stress.