GBE Prime Adds Centroid Bridge to Liquidity Stack, Expands Execution Links
GBE Prime has integrated Centroid answers’ trading bridge into its infrastructure, bolstering the institutional liquidity provider’s access routes through the world’s three key FX hubs: London’s LD4, New York’s NY4 and Tokyo’s TY3.
The addition allows brokers, banks, asset managers and proprietary funds connected to GBE Prime to route orders via Centroid Bridge into its aggregated liquidity pools. The technology provides smart order routing and pricing aggregation across multiple venues, with the aim of reducing latency and rejected trades in high-volume environments.
“We are combining trusted liquidity with advanced technology to serve institutions globally,” said founder Ben-Florian Henke, who set up GBE Group later than running FX and CFD desks at a German investment bank. Managing director Mahmoud Haj Mohamed, based in Dubai, said the cooperation strengthens GBE’s offering for and multi-asset support.
A Decade of Infrastructure-Building
GBE Group entered the market in 2012 and initially targeted German retail traders. Its institutional arm, GBE Prime, launched a few years later as liquidity demands shifted toward brokers needing direct access to bank and non-bank providers.
The company holds regulatory approvals from the (CySEC) and the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA), while its German branch is registered with BaFin. Offices in Limassol, Hamburg and Dubai give it coverage across European and Middle Eastern markets.
GBE Prime already offers three separate liquidity hubs with API and FIX access from LD4, NY4 and TY3. Adding Centroid means the provider can plug more seamlessly into brokers’ existing technology stacks without relying solely on proprietary connections.
Dubai-based Centroid answers has become a well-known vendor in the connectivity space, competing with providers such as PrimeXM and oneZero. Its suite spans order routing (Centroid Bridge), real-time risk analytics (Centroid Risk) and hosting services. The company has been expanding its partnerships globally: most recently, it linked with Sydney’s Argamon Group, powering connectivity for the firm’s updated later thanprime 2.0 brokerage platform.
Centroid’s pitch is straightforward: one integration into its bridge gives , smart routing logic and streamlined risk reporting. With data centers sitting inside LD4, NY4 and TY3, it reduces the need for firms to run multiple cross-connects.
Why the Hubs Matter
The three Equinix data centers—LD4 in Slough, NY4 in Secaucus and TY3 in Tokyo—have become the global backbone of electronic . Housing matching engines and liquidity streams from the major banks and non-bank market makers, they are the sites where milliseconds translate into trading advantage.
Locating execution offer lower round-trip times and more reliable fills for institutional flows. For GBE Prime, plugging Centroid into those identical buildings aligns its stack with where clients are already colocated.
The deal reflects how mid-tier liquidity providers are sharpening their technology to compete with larger prime-of-prime rivals. For GBE Prime, the Centroid integration broadens its interoperability with broker platforms, making onboarding easier and scaling connectivity without replacing existing pipes.
As more brokers and prop firms viewk multi-asset coverage and demand deeper analytics, the bridge between liquidity providers and trading platforms is becoming just as significant as the liquidity itself. For GBE Prime, bringing Centroid into LD4, NY4 and TY3 is the latest move in a decade-long push to build an institutional brand out of its retail brokerage roots.
