What Happened at the Month-End Fix?
February 6, 2024
Market impact at the month-end FX fix was significantly lower than the average, indeed the potential savings from using the… Read More »
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Market impact at the month-end FX fix was significantly lower than the average, indeed the potential savings from using the… 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 »
Data released by seven FX committees around the world indicates that the FX market continued to grow through to October… Read More »
It is likely to be one of the biggest events of the year in the FX industry, and as Marc… Read More »
Regulatory changes are increasing the cost of managing OTC FX portfolios. Eurex’s Jens Quiram, global head of FIC derivatives and… Read More »
Analysis of the 12 month-end fixes in 2023 suggests that market impact was slightly reduced from the 12 months previously,… Read More »
I hate having to do this, but sadly I have to pass on news of another tragic passing in our… Read More »
2023 closed out on a nasty note for users of the WM five-minute benchmark fix with the last two months… Read More »
By Lisa Danino-Lewis, Chief Growth Officer, CLS As we approach 2024 amid uncertain market conditions and an ever-changing geopolitical and… Read More »
The customer relationship is something often discussed in financial markets (often using cliches), but now a study has sought to… Read More »
Investors whose funds use the five-minute WM window for the month-end FX fix missed out on potential savings of more… Read More »
Today, (28 November) marks the six-month threshold for the headline act of the past six months in markets, the US… Read More »
The pattern of lower market impact at the month-end FX fix continued in October, with potential savings from using the… Read More »
Randomisation was seen as the key to “cleaner” FX markets when launched, but now, as Eva Szalay reports, the two… Read More »
It was another quieter than average month-end FX benchmark Fix in September, with the good news being that two of… Read More »
With The Full FX View The latest FX market microstructure study by Bank of America looks at what happened on… Read More »
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued a final report for Project Mariana, which tested the cross-border trading and… Read More »
For dealers of a certain generation the words “five-eighths a half, might pay nine-sixteenths for a Japanese name” evoke the… Read More »
We all dream of retirement right? Well, Eva Szalay has some words of wisdom – and warning – for those… Read More »
Market impact was once again a factor at the August month-end FX fix with the potential savings from a window… Read More »
In 2019, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) flagged what was clearly seen by the authorities as a growing problem… Read More »
It was very much a mixed bag for those platforms that report FX turnover on a monthly basis when looking… Read More »
With volatility lower in April 2023 than the previous April, more customers turned to competitive channels to execute their FX… Read More »
Longer windows to calculate month-end fixes continue to offer substantial potential savings thus far in 2023, however they remain below… Read More »
We’ve been trawling through the latest FX turnover reports from the UK, US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and Canada,… Read More »
With The Full FX View The Global Foreign Exchange Division’s Market Architecture Group (MAG) has published a third study… Read More »
Alex Knight, Head of EMEA at Baton Systems explains how the impact of efficient post-trade processes can be felt across… Read More »
With The Full FX View As with so many issues in foreign exchange, indeed in financial markets generally, the issue… Read More »
The end of Q2 2023 was a relatively subdued affair around the London 4pm Fix, with the potential savings measuring… Read More »
While algo execution is undoubtedly on the rise in FX markets, as has been the case for the past few… Read More »
Quieter FX markets translated into a relatively low market impact from hedging of flows before the London 4pm Fix with… Read More »
When phase 6 of the uncleared margin rules (UMR) came into force at the start of September 2022, there was… Read More »
A new paper published by the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) offers insight into what will no doubt be a… Read More »
A judicial opinion published by the Southern District Court of New York, which is hearing the class action brought against… Read More »
The European Central Bank has joined a long list of central banks and regulators to warn over the potential cost… Read More »
Market impact from hedging ahead of the monthly WM Fix was higher than recent months, with the potential savings from… Read More »
It was another quieter than average month-end fix in terms of potential savings from a longer window, however the overall… Read More »
Following the latest Full FX Unfiltered video with 360T’s head of swaps strategy Gavin Wells, Colin Lambert sat down with… Read More »
Following news that United Fintech following its acquisition of the business, is relaunching CobaltFX, Colin Lambert talks to United Fintech… Read More »
BidFX recently launched its Liquidity Provision Analytics (LPA) product suite for customers, Colin Lambert talks to Daniel Chambers, head of… Read More »
Following the release of the seventh annual JP Morgan e-Trading Edit, which polls traders’ views of key market structure and… Read More »
Colin Lambert talks to Richard Elston, group head of institutional at CMC Markets Connect, about the opportunities and complexities involved… Read More »
An occasional question over the data published by The Full FX for every month-end Fix is that the overall savings… Read More »
The latest FX data from the world’s FX committee’s offers mixed news for those platforms to publish trading volumes, with… Read More »
While only the UK and US FX committees publish execution channel data in their semi-annual FX turnover reports, they are… Read More »
With sustained volatility returning to the FX market for the first time in many years, corporate bottom lines and asset… Read More »
With all but the Japanese data published, the latest regional FX committee FX turnover surveys indicate that activity in markets… Read More »
With The Full FX View A long-standing point of contention, or ambiguity, in FX markets has been what some in… Read More »
It was a quieter than usual month-end London 4pm Fix in January, although in the bigger picture there were some… Read More »
Bank of America’s latest FX market structure analysis finds that conditions in the FX market remained elevated after several events… Read More »
