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Oanda Corporation
{{notability|date=August 2016}}
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| name             = OANDA Corporation
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| foundation       = {{start date |1995}}, incorporated in 1996<br />Forex division est. 2001
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| location_city    = [[Toronto]] 
| location_country = [[Canada]]
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| key_people       = [[Richard Olsen]], Co-Founder<br /> Dr [[Michael Stumm]], Co-Founder<br /> Edmond Eger III, CEO
| industry         = [[Financial Services]]<br/>[[Foreign exchange trading|Currency Trading]]
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| homepage         = [https://www.oanda.com www.oanda.com]
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'''OANDA''' is a Canadian-based [[foreign exchange market|foreign exchange]] company providing [[currency conversion]], online [[retail foreign exchange trading]] (forex), online foreign currency transfers, and forex information. In the US it is a non-bank [[Futures Commission Merchant]] (FCM) specialized in spot forex trading and a registered FCM with the [[Commodity Futures Trading Commission]] (CFTC) and a member of the [[National Futures Association]] (NFA).

==History==
OANDA was co-founded by Michael Stumm, a professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, and Richard Olsen of The Olsen Ltd., a leading econometric research, and development firm.<ref>http://www.oanda.com/corp/story/</ref> <ref>http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~stumm/</ref>

OANDA is an outgrowth of the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] ''Olsen Group'' and was created to serve as an internet [[trading platform]] to automate techniques based on the group's research in foreign exchange trading.<ref>"[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3715/is_200306/ai_n9286236 Research-coming from a trading floor near you]", M(contracted; show full)rket works when small investors and big investors are set on an equal footing, having removed the unfair commission structure.<ref>{{cite book |title=The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward |author1=Benoît Mandelbrot |authorlink1=Benoit Mandelbrot |author2=Richard L. Hudson |page=257 |publisher=[[Basic Books]] |isbn=0-465-04355-0}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of foreign exchange companies]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http
s://www.oanda.com/}}

[[Category:Financial services companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Foreign exchange companies]]
[[Category:Companies based in Toronto]]
[[Category:Financial derivative trading companies]]
[[Category:Canadian brands]]