The Last Look…
February 10, 2026
In amongst the recently-published minutes of the latest Global Foreign Exchange Committee meeting was an interesting – and most welcome… Read More »
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In amongst the recently-published minutes of the latest Global Foreign Exchange Committee meeting was an interesting – and most welcome… Read More »
Deutsche Bank is to integrate its FX-as-a-service offering HausFX into Blackrock’s Aladdin OMS that is used by in excess of… Read More »
Organisations today are rich in talent. Yet despite this and their unprecedented access to data and technology, many still struggle… Read More »
DeFiance is futile. The convergence of DeFi and traditional finance is continuing with renewed momentum in 2026, even as the… Read More »
Not least because of “Liberation Day” inspired volatility, FX venues that publish data largely had a banner year in 2025,… Read More »
Last week’s meltdown in Japan’s bond markets, a small matter of JGBs shifting in a day what normally takes a… Read More »
2026 has started pretty much how 2025 proceeded – random events spiking interest in markets, although this year, thus far,… Read More »
It has been pointed out to me by an observant reader, that the first column of every year since Michelle… Read More »
Financial markets have long equated strong workplace performance with financial results. But this thinking comes with hidden costs – significant… Read More »
As has become customary, we will close the year with a look at the most read columns to grab a… Read More »
Just days after releasing a survey revealing that UK funds are planning to combat increased Sterling volatility by ramping up… Read More »
What is it with FX costs that’s so hard to get? For a third of asset managers, the costs of… Read More »
In an AI world that is now awash with synthetic text and hidden biases, work slop and automation bias are… Read More »
UK fund managers are planning to ramp up hedging in 2026 thanks to currency volatility, especially in Sterling, although many… Read More »
The CME outage last week is the latest example of how the FX industry has, in the main, managed to… Read More »
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has renewed its recognition of the FX Global Code, Global Precious Metals Code, and… Read More »
The latest in our Voice of Experience series sees industry veteran Alan Konevsky dip into the early days of e-FX… Read More »
Stables, stability and risks – where next? At least one of Australia’s major super funds will start using stablecoins in… Read More »
Following the recent unveiling of the first Full FX Awards, Eva Szalay and Colin Lambert discuss the inaugural Crossover Award,… Read More »
One aspect of the Bank of England paper studying the effect on Credit Suisse’s clients following that bank’s collapse in… Read More »
There are many things in life that inevitably end in disappointment, West Ham going 2-0 up only to lose; every… Read More »
Following the recent unveiling of The Full FX Awards for 2025, Colin Lambert sat down with Eva Szalay to offer… Read More »
1:1 or 1:100? Stablecoins continue to have many doubters, despite the fact that the (current) US government is not one… Read More »
A survey of senior traders at 34 European asset managers has found widespread unhappiness at the practice of pre-hedging, with… Read More »
If you thought that the noise around the Libor/market manipulation/trader dismissal issue from nearly a decade ago was diminishing, you… Read More »
In the northern hemisphere it is very much the end of what many term the “stablecoin summer”, but it is… Read More »
It’s been a busy week, so rather than bang on about something I have half an understanding of (what’s new… Read More »
Things that annoy me: Part 1,754. Ignorance that ignores reality in the hope that some mug falls for the sales… Read More »
The US appears to be keen to underwrite a new growth phase in derivatives markets. This is according to a… Read More »
I rarely have sympathy for regulators – I understand we need some guidance in markets, but too often relatively uninformed… Read More »
From scarcity to abundance – what a mindset! In a few weeks’ time foreign exchange will receive its triannual update… Read More »
The latest report from MillTech surveying North American fund managers paints a picture of firms impacted by FX volatility, as… Read More »
A few weeks off does wonders for the mind, helps you focus and, often, come back to work with a… Read More »
Talk data to me* Quite unexpectedly, Uncle Sam is now onchain. That’s a swift pivot for a country that just… Read More »
Deep in the weeds of foreign exchange land, it’s sometimes hard to imagine that there are people living entire lives… Read More »
“Pre-hedging”, or “hedging ahead of the Fix” as it is referred to around the major FX benchmark fixes, remains a… Read More »
Market structure evolution is a regular theme in these pages, and indeed this column, and most often it is targeted… Read More »
Last week’s column prompted quite a response, which can be summarised thus: How confident are you that adhering to your… Read More »
LoopFX has marked an important milestone by going live as an FX trading venue, matching trades within State Street’s FX… Read More »
For the second week in a row, we are writing about justice served around five years too late, following news… Read More »
CLS has unveiled a redesigned CLS Cleared FX service, which was first launched in 2018 – as was the case… Read More »
As someone who has argued pretty much from the start that Mark Johnson’s conviction was wrong, it comes as something… Read More »
Standard Chartered Bank is claiming a first with the launch of spot crypto trading services for its clients, through its… Read More »
The one about technology So you don’t like digital assets? Probably because you are a profit centre for a firm… Read More »
A frisson of excitement rippled through financial markets last week when one of its recent “darlings” was banned by a… Read More »
It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it… Sometimes what a regulator says and what they actually encourage… Read More »
Something very different this week – charity, cycling and suffering! Some of you will know that FX industry stalwart Al… Read More »
Time for a full-on, generation gap, rant. Don’t give me this “liquidity mirage: stuff again, FX markets are as robust… Read More »
In the past I have received a fair amount of blowback over my position that total transparency in markets is… Read More »
The introduction of Non-Financial Report Requirements (NFRR) means that in many cases workplace culture is now categorised as yet another… Read More »
