Collybus Signs AXB
January 21, 2026
Digital assets and Tradfi technology provider Collybus has unveiled proprietary trading firm AXB as its latest client, reflecting, the firm… Read More »
Digital assets and Tradfi technology provider Collybus has unveiled proprietary trading firm AXB as its latest client, reflecting, the firm… Read More »
FairXchange says that CME Group has selected its Horizon solution to provide execution analytics and liquidity management tools to users… Read More »
2026 has started pretty much how 2025 proceeded – random events spiking interest in markets, although this year, thus far,… Read More »
Yes, I did forget to do this last week, but that gave you an extra seven days to solve the… Read More »
Standard Chartered’s venture arm, SC Ventures, and Fujitsu, have launched Qubitra Technologies, formed out of the two firm’s Project Quantra,… Read More »
LMAX Group has secured $150 million in financing from financial technology company Ripple to grow its long-term cross-asset growth strategy… Read More »
LSEG has launched an open-access platform enabling programmatic and instantaneous settlement between independent payment networks, both on- and off-chain through… Read More »
Crypto middleware provider BridgePort has launched a new analytics package, featuring Bridget, an AI-powered agent aimed at helping users optimise… Read More »
Although it does not provide hard numbers, Capitolis says that 2025 produced record-breaking performance across its portfolio optimisation business spanning… Read More »
The Financial Markets Standards Board has published its workplan for 2026, including continued work on pre-hedging and market applications of… Read More »
Data from CLS indicates that the settlement service provider set a new peak for December spot and FX swap volumes… Read More »
Hedge fund performance hit a 19-year high in 2025 according to indexation and analytical firm HFR, thanks to an almost-universally… Read More »
LSEG has entered the increasingly crowded market for trade surveillance tools with the launch of two solutions under its Trade… Read More »
It has been pointed out to me by an observant reader, that the first column of every year since Michelle… Read More »
Financial markets have long equated strong workplace performance with financial results. But this thinking comes with hidden costs – significant… Read More »
December was a good month for both 360T and Singapore Exchange, with both reporting their second busiest month ever in… Read More »
UK bank Lloyds and digital asset exchange and broker Archax used the Canton Network to complete what they say is… Read More »
Eastspring Investments, the asset management business of Prudential, has moved to enhance automation levels in its FX business by connecting… Read More »
CME Group closed out 2025 with December FX volumes drifting slightly year-on-year at both the futures and OTC businesses, however… Read More »
The first group of platforms to report FX volumes saw 360T and Cboe FX close out the year with a… Read More »
Listed corporations have started to actively offer their views on stablecoins during earnings calls in the third quarter of this… Read More »
In a new paper published by its Settlement Working Group, the Global Foreign Exchange Committee highlights the need for FX… Read More »
As we did last year at this time, we thought it would be interesting to see what you, the readers,… Read More »
The UK Supreme Court has reversed a UK Court of Appeal judgement over whether a case against six banks for… Read More »
New technologies such as AI, stablecoins and tokenised deposits are likely to affect FX markets and market structure, but while… Read More »
It’s the last issue of the newsletter for 2025, so rather than the usual four words to find, we have… Read More »
As has become customary, we will close the year with a look at the most read columns to grab a… Read More »
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves said on Monday that new, soon-to-be unveiled crypto rules in the UK will make the country… Read More »
The US regulator has issued a no action letter to the DTCC which enable the infrastructure provider to take a… Read More »
Just days after releasing a survey revealing that UK funds are planning to combat increased Sterling volatility by ramping up… Read More »
After two successive record months, FXSpotStream saw activity cool off in November, as was the case with most other platforms… Read More »
CME Group and LSEG saw FX volumes drop in November from both October and on a year-on-year basis, although the… Read More »
Car maker BMW has signed up with JP Morgan’s digital asset group, Kynexis Digital Payments, to deploy onchain, programmable payments… Read More »
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has launched a pilot programme that will see some digital assets, including bitcoin, ether… Read More »
Just a week after revealing a number of Asian banks had joined its CLSNet service, CLS continues to grow its… Read More »
A recurring theme of the FX industry for many years has been the growth of electronic trading, however while there… Read More »
Although not at the record-setting pace of Q3, hedge funds continue to perform solidly in Q4, with November providing the… Read More »
Manuel Mondedeu, co-head of global FX at CIBC Capital Markets, has been named as the new co-vice chair of the… Read More »
What is it with FX costs that’s so hard to get? For a third of asset managers, the costs of… Read More »
In the latest in the disruptor series, David Mercer, CEO of LMAX Group, and Colin Lambert, publisher of The Full… Read More »
Capitolis has announced the appointment of Okan Pekin as president of the firm, based in London he will report to… Read More »
It’s the penultimate Wordsearch of the year. As always, there are four words or phrases (four letters minimum) relating in… Read More »
If there has been one ever-present driver of volatility in FX markets over the past year it has been the… Read More »
Deutsche Börse and Kraken have entered into a partnership targeting the creation of infrastructure providing unified access across traditional and… Read More »
LSEG has unveiled an MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector for ChatGPT users and enterprise customers of OpenAI, as well as… Read More »
In an AI world that is now awash with synthetic text and hidden biases, work slop and automation bias are… Read More »
UK fund managers are planning to ramp up hedging in 2026 thanks to currency volatility, especially in Sterling, although many… Read More »
BNP Paribas has joined the recently-announced MiCAR-compliant euro stablecoin project from nine European banks, as the name for the venture… Read More »
Standard Chartered has gone live on CLSNet, CLS’ automated bilateral payment netting calculation service for over 120 currencies, alongside several… Read More »
The FIA-sponsored European Agent Trustee Model (EATM) has gone live at LCH for its SwapClear service, following a multi-year project… Read More »
