"We are proud to have been a founding investor in FastMatch and helped build it from the ground-up. The company has become one of the most innovative institutional platforms for forex traders and a leading technology platform," said Alan Freudenstein, Managing Director at Credit Suisse Asset Management.

The FastMatch ECN is based on market-tested technology developed by Credit Suisse, giving the company an incredible speed advantage and the ability to handle thousands of clients simultaneously. Clients include retail brokers, institutions, banks, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms.

NEXT Investors is a Credit Suisse asset management business headed by Alan Freudenstein and Greg Grimaldi, who have invested together on a principal basis for 17 years. NEXT Investors identifies minority growth equity investment opportunities in private technology and services companies globally where the team has domain expertise and an actionable edge. NEXT Investors focuses on high-growth private businesses that interact with the financial services industry in business sectors including market structure, data providers and big data analytics, enterprise software, and tech-enabled finance.