LMAX Acquires FX HedgePool
October 1, 2024
One year after acquiring Cürex Group, LMAX Group has unveiled a second FX deal aimed at expanding its product and… Read More »
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One year after acquiring Cürex Group, LMAX Group has unveiled a second FX deal aimed at expanding its product and… Read More »
I will confess, when I first heard of the proposed changes to LSEG FX’ Spot Matching, my initial reaction was… Read More »
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In the latest Voice of Experience Column, Ted Holloway discusses the growing issue of data ownership, and also takes a… Read More »
The pre-hedging Spotlight Review from the FMSB merely serves to highlight, in my view, just how difficult, and potentially risky,… Read More »
The subject of wholesale central bank digital currencies has gained new momentum this year and like so much in the… Read More »
With so much pressure to always do the right thing, be all inclusive, have an engaged and healthy workforce and… Read More »
It’s a cliché that the foreign exchange industry is a fast-evolving world, but nonetheless true, and the pace of evolution… Read More »
With The Full FX View LSEG FX has made a major splash in the FX industry, The Full FX understands,… Read More »
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I think we can all agree that the T+1 changeover in North America was handled smoothly by markets, and that… Read More »
With The Full FX View BNP Paribas has extended its relationship with CobaltFX by deploying the recently-launched CobaltFX Analytics solution,… Read More »
The whole sorry episode of the USD/ZAR barrier and Neil Phillips’ actions has come to an end (perhaps) with his… Read More »
With The Full FX View FX dark pool matching platform LoopFX has secured further funding as it develops its business,… Read More »
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In the second of our Human FX series, people development consultant and coach, Martina Doherty, discusses what it will take… Read More »
Let us return, friends, to an old favourite – the 4pm Fix – for this week there have been two… Read More »
In our latest Voice of Experience contribution, Ted Holloway follows up on recent columns in The Full FX looking at… Read More »
Should banks be touting the “house view” of FX markets given how poor, historically, so many economists and strategists have… Read More »
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Don’t bother with them, don’t invest in them, don’t throw any resource at it. This is the first in a… Read More »
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There has been a lot of noise around central bank digital currencies in recent years, and central banks continue to… Read More »
One aspect of having a public, and rather robust stance on certain issues – in this case last look –… Read More »
What some see as an “unfair” imbalance in the regulatory treatment of trading platform and technology providers remains a touchy… Read More »
The failure by former HSBC head of cash trading Mark Johnson to have his conviction vacated in the US effectively… Read More »
Although strictly independent, and looking at the issue from a purely academic standpoint, the recent paper on pre-Fix hedging by… Read More »
For large fixing orders, it benefits both the client and the dealer carrying out the transaction to hedge in the… Read More »
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In our latest Voice of Experience column, regular contributor, Ted Holloway, takes a look back, but only as the basis… Read More »
Not for the first time over the past decade or so, it seems that, for some, expectations around the growth… Read More »
With The Full FX View Neil Phillips, who was last year convicted of manipulation of the FX market by… Read More »
This week’s column is full of opinion and thought-provoking observations, but it has a different author – I think Eva… Read More »
One question popped up from correspondents more than any other after last week’s column – how successful has the exchange… Read More »
In the latest Voice of Experience column, Steve Flanagan highlights a risk to the FX markets that is external to LPs,… Read More »
With The Full FX View A new policy paper from the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) calls for… Read More »
The decline of volumes on the “primary” FX venues is not a new discussion, liquidity providers have been talking to… Read More »
With The Full FX View Post-trade provider Osttra, a joint venture between CME Group and S&P Global, is to launch… Read More »
