CLS Reports Strong Start to 2025
CLS has confirmed the busy start to 2025 for the FX market by reporting its third highest settlement values since… Read More »
CLS has confirmed the busy start to 2025 for the FX market by reporting its third highest settlement values since… Read More »
Deutsche Bank has helped its client HashKey Exchange, Hong Kong’s largest licensed virtual asset exchange, to launch a new fiat deposit… Read More »
LSEG has unveiled the hiring of Hiroki Tomiyasu as head of post-trade Japan and head of post-trade solutions for Asia-Pacific.… Read More »
Following my column to start the year, I am indebted to a friend who shared some high level data with… Read More »
Trading software development company Devexperts has unveiled DX Trade Institutional, a single dealer platform that the firm says it designed… Read More »
LSEG and 360T reported strong year-on-year growth in the FX volumes for January 2025, although the latter did see a… Read More »
Bloomberg has announced the launch of Bloomberg Bitcoin & Gold Blend Indices, which it says is “some of the first… Read More »
Although the January month-end Fix showed similar market impact to recent months, there might be some concerns that the world’s… Read More »
Foreign exchange flows are heavily reliant on trade flows – this is the argument that has allowed currencies to be… Read More »
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking has made three appointments to its global markets Americas teams, largely focusing on FX and… Read More »
In an era where automation dominates FX and markets operations, is the value of human skills in danger of being… Read More »
Hedge funds had a strong start to 2025 according to indexation and analytics firm HFR, which reports its HFRI Fund… Read More »
The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has named co-chairs to its Conduct & Ethics Committee to replace the outgoing Tracey… Read More »
It’s not just smells and memories that can transport people back in time; the phrase “best execution” is surely one… Read More »
The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA) continues to build its membership with the latest addition being RBC Capital Markets as… Read More »
Capitolis ended 2024 on a high by notching another record month in December for its Novations platform. The firms says… Read More »
There has been a fair bit of information to consume over the past week, what with the FX committee turnover… Read More »
Once again, we’ve been trawling through the latest FX turnover reports from the UK, US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia… Read More »
Just over two years after introducing the GlobalLink Digital brand as its open platform, State Street has announced a rebranding… Read More »
360T has announced a partnership with execution services provider Quantitative Brokers to make the latter’s newly-launched suite of FX algorithmic… Read More »
The ninth annual JP Morgan e-Trading Edit finds, unsurprisingly given geopolitical machinations, that inflation and tariffs are top of mind… Read More »
Standard Chartered has launched what it says is an “industry-first” AI-powered video column, the Wealth Management FX Intelligent Expert which… Read More »
The UK’s Accelerated Settlement Task Force (AST) has published a third and final update ahead of the establishment of a… Read More »
Dark matching service LoopFX has added FlexTrade to its list of platforms, OMS and EMS that has connected to, by… Read More »
The latest semi-annual surveys of FX turnover published by the world’s seven major FX committees shows that activity slackened off… Read More »
As was the case with the other platforms to report FX volume data, CME Group also had a good start… Read More »
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has unveiled ComposerX, a suite of platforms designed to streamline token creation and… Read More »
Sorry everyone but this is going to be an old-school rant – I try very hard not to compare today’s… Read More »
FX platforms appear to have started 2025 is a strong fashion, with all of the first group to report volume… Read More »
The foreign exchange market has undergone significant changes over the past decade as regulatory mandates, technological advancements, and new entrants… Read More »
Final data for 2024 shows that, thanks to increased volatility and possibly more customers putting their dealers in competition, FX… Read More »
As is probably to be expected given its major focus on improving settlement procedures, the latest iteration of the FX… Read More »
CME Group has announced it will introduce options on Bitcoin Friday futures on February 24, pending regulatory review. The new contracts… Read More »
The latest Hedge Fund Confidence Index, published by AIMA in association with Simmons & Simmons and Seward & Kissel, shows… Read More »
A new report from Crisil Coalition Greenwich says the crypto industry now represents a $3 trillion asset class, and that… Read More »
The last 12 months have seen a narrowing of the gap in terms of execution costs from using the WM… Read More »
The latest iteration of the FX Global Code contains some important, but nuanced, changes, and as well as highlighting how… Read More »
Currency traders had a strong end to a good year according to Barclayhedge, the firm’s Currency Traders Index adding 2.01%… Read More »
The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has published its latest Standard, this time establishing best practice for the sharing of… Read More »
Trading platforms will have to explicitly state what they do with data derived from client transactions, whether executed or not,… Read More »
Total global hedge fund capital surged to a record level in 2024, reflecting a strong performance year for the sector,… Read More »
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, the European Commission (EC) and the… Read More »
XTX Markets has announced plans to invest over EUR 1 billion to develop a state-of-the-art complex in Kajaani, Finland, that… Read More »
With US regulatory uncertainty a regular theme of recent years in crypto markets, there is probably some relief at an… Read More »
Standard Chartered has launched a new transactional FX suite of solutions aimed at its financial institution, non-bank financial institution, paytech… Read More »
We had a quiet 10th anniversary in FX last week, and I’m not surprised it was quiet, for it was… Read More »
Jack Linker is celebrating 50 years in the FX industry, a period that has seen tremendous change. Colin Lambert sat… Read More »
What does a second Trump term mean for FX markets? Eva Szalay has been checking on the thoughts of market… Read More »
Digital asset custodian Komainu, which is jointly owned by Nomura, Ledger and CoinShares, has announced new $75 million in funding… Read More »
Three years after it halved its order review time (ORT) to 35ms, Cboe FX is again cutting what is effectively… Read More »