What Happened at the Month-End Fix?
January 9, 2023
Potential savings from a longer London 4pm fixing window were pretty much in line with the long-term average at the… Read More »
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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 »
Just under a year after it called for ideas on the issue, the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure (CPMI)… Read More »
The benefits of publishing a month-end London 4pm benchmark using a longer window were mixed for the June fixing, however,… Read More »
Our latest occasional (and light-hearted) cartoon, drawn by Madeleine Allcock, takes a dip into the murky world of currency exchange… Read More »
With settlement risk a hot topic in the FX industry, Colin Lambert talks with Alex Knight, head of EMEA at… Read More »
The first month-end London 4pm Fix since Refinitiv Benchmarks concluded a feedback initiative over the use of the WMR Fix… Read More »
Last Thursday saw a packed house at the Hotel at Six in Stockholm attend the first in-person event hosted by… Read More »
With Refinitiv Benchmarks completing its consultation over the future of the WM Fix, and Raidne releasing a new service that… Read More »
Colin Lambert talks to David Mercer, CEO of LMAX Group about conditions in FX and crypto markets – and effecting… Read More »
The crypto evolution thus far has largely been a story of volatility, trend and yield – all of which have,… Read More »
Perhaps not unexpectedly given it was a quarter end – although it has to be pointed out this was not… Read More »
The Full FX is coming to Scandinavia on May 12 at the Hotel At Six, Stockholm. With geopolitical tensions and… Read More »
Against a backdrop of busier financial market conditions, the February month-end Fix behaved largely in line with previous fixings, although… Read More »
Continuous innovation has been the lifeblood of the modern FX industry and this, along with rapid technological development seen in… Read More »
Recent events in financial markets have highlighted the need for the highest possible standards in operational risk. In the third… Read More »
After a quiet year-end in terms of potential market impact cost at the London 4pm Fix, there was a return… Read More »
Although there has been a delay in the publishing of the data from Japan, the latest round of FX committee… Read More »
The last month-end London 4pm Fix of 2021 saw more subdued activity after the blow out in November, with sources… Read More »
Earlier this year, The Full FX published a report on a survey looking at the hidden costs of FX trading… Read More »
The latest analysis of “what happened at the month-end Fix” places the potential cost of a shorter FX fixing window… Read More »
Colin Lambert talks to head of CMC Markets Connect, Richard Elston, about building an institutional business with a difference. Earlier… Read More »
The second cartoon in our occasional (and light-hearted) series, drawn by Madeleine Allcock, seeking to explain some of the controversial,… Read More »
The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has published its latest Spotlight Review examining the existing structure of the precious metals… Read More »
The ability of financial market operators to reinvent and innovate has been one of the key successes driving industry growth… Read More »
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The latest financial markets semi-annual survey by Sweden’s central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, finds that while respondents consider conditions to have… Read More »
New firm launches with the intention of filling an important gap in the global FX market’s risk profile In 2019,… Read More »
After what was a very quiet September in terms of price action around the month-end London 4pm Fix, October saw… Read More »
To coincide with their end of year results 2021, CEO Gordon McArthur and his team at Beeks launched their latest… Read More »
Want to see these moves first? Sign up for our FREE weekly round-up. A summary of the people moves reported… Read More »
In terms of savings from a longer fixing window, the sixth analysis of FX month-end Fix flows, provided by Raidne… Read More »
There is little doubt that in the institutional investor/asset manager space, focus has been increasing on the quality of FX… Read More »
In the second of a series of three articles looking at the benefits of ultra-low latency, David Faulkner, global head… Read More »
