The Last Look…
September 3, 2024
Data published by two platforms provides an interesting insight into FX market behaviour during market upheaval, reinforcing the sense that,… Read More »
The Position is the place to go for opinion, both from The Full FX and selected FX and crypto industry voices. Colin Lambert will be providing regular commentary on the latest industry developments with the intention of provoking discussion over developments. The Position will also carry occasional market commentary from leading FX and crypto strategists as well as macro commentary from think tanks.
Data published by two platforms provides an interesting insight into FX market behaviour during market upheaval, reinforcing the sense that,… Read More »
Is there a tipping point at which LPs in the spot FX business say “enough” and actually do something about… Read More »
The latest column in our Voice of Experience series sees Simon Wilson-Taylor, senior partner at FastFin, takes a look at… Read More »
Much happen while I was away? Apart from a global market meltdown of course? Amidst the bloodletting in markets last… Read More »
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 »
With The Full FX View CLS has provided an update on activity across its core CLS Settlement service just over… Read More »
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 »
The Global FX Committee meets next week and one of the topics on the agenda will probably be pre-hedging, specifically… Read More »
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 »
Much has been made about how different roles in the FX market have changed, evolution tends to make that happen,… Read More »
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 »
Any time there is change at the top of one of the FX industry’s major platforms it creates a buzz,… Read More »
Much noise has been made about the impending shift to T+1 settlement in North American securities, but with one week… Read More »
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 »
One of the big topics in the FX market at the moment is the increasingly agitated response of Japan to… Read More »
By City Rover Spare a thought, Dear Reader, for the FX Options Trader. Does it not strike you as odd,… Read More »
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 »
This is a short story demonstrating how I can be fair and balanced in my commentary…almost! Last week, with some… Read More »
The approaching T+1 switchover is grabbing most of the attention in the FX industry – rightly so, it is the… Read More »
I wonder if any of those firms that have been granted patents in the FX industry are looking nervously over… Read More »
How worried, or otherwise, should we be about buy-side adoption of the FX Global Code and how much more effort… Read More »
While the 2024 edition of the JP Morgan e-Trading Edit has the expected concerns over volatility and liquidity at the… Read More »
The information released regarding the episode between Westpac and its client that led to the bank being fined for its… Read More »
The latest in our series, which taps the minds of experienced FX market participants, sees regular contributor Ted Holloway join… Read More »
SEC chair Gary Gensler is not, in my view, a particularly markets-friendly administrator, which made me nervous when I heard,… Read More »
There has always been a delicate balance between the sell and buy sides in the FX market, and on balance,… Read More »
