What Happened at the Month-End Fix?
Market impact was once again a factor at the August month-end FX fix with the potential savings from a window… Read More »
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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 »
The latest BIS Bulletin from the Bank for International Settlements carries a paper that addresses the risks in crypto, and… Read More »
Potential savings from a longer London 4pm fixing window were pretty much in line with the long-term average at the… Read More »
One of the more important infrastructures in the FX industry has turned 20 – Colin Lambert takes a look at… Read More »
It was another month of potentially costly FX hedging for those firms using the shorter calculation window for their month-end… Read More »
While FX markets remained orderly during two recent interventions by central banks, a Bank of America study finds that they… Read More »
It was a quieter than usual London 4pm month-end fix on October 31 in terms of market impact, with significantly… Read More »
If those spot FX platforms to publish monthly volume data were looking to benchmark themselves against the Bank for International… Read More »
While the FX market has, largely, been minimally affected by the changing regulatory landscape over the past five years, the… Read More »
A striking aspect of the latest BIS Triennial Survey of FX Turnover is the quite sharp drop in the share… Read More »
The 2022 BIS Triennial Survey of FX Turnover offers mixed news for sales desks, with fortunes very much dependent upon… Read More »
Singapore Exchange has made quite a splash in OTC FX circles in recent years with the acquisition of first BidFX… Read More »
It was another tough month-end for anyone who cares about market impact around the London 4pm WM Fix, with potential… Read More »
The price action in Cable on Monday morning in Asia has led some to question whether the FX market saw… Read More »
It is of probably some relief to users of the WM London 4pm Benchmark Fix that after what was a… Read More »
Ahead of the release of the eagerly-awaited Bank for International Settlements’ Triennial Survey of FX Turnover, The Full FX is… Read More »
Ahead of the release of the eagerly-awaited Bank for International Settlements’ Triennial Survey of FX Turnover, The Full FX is… Read More »
Ahead of the release of the eagerly-awaited Bank for International Settlements’ Triennial Survey of FX Turnover, The Full FX is… Read More »
Ahead of the release of the eagerly-awaited Bank for International Settlements’ Triennial Survey of FX Turnover, The Full FX is… Read More »
The latest month-end FX benchmark fix to be analysed by The Full FX was, frankly, a bit of a bloodbath… Read More »