What Happened at Month End Fix?
May 4, 2021
The debate around whether the FX market needs a longer window at the crucial WMR 4pm London Fix often comes… Read More »
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The debate around whether the FX market needs a longer window at the crucial WMR 4pm London Fix often comes… Read More »
The first group of three FX platforms to report volumes for April signal a quieter month from March, but, generally,… Read More »
Deutsche Börse and Commerzbank are entering a strategic partnership with newly-formed fintech 360X to develop new blockchain-based digital marketplaces and… Read More »
Optimisation service provider Quantile Technologies says it has become the first vendor to offer optimisation of cleared USD/CAD, USD/DKK, USD/MXN,… Read More »
The trading volumes of interest rate derivatives referencing risk-free rates (RFRs) decreased slightly in the first quarter of 2021 according… Read More »
Aman Thind has been appointed global chief architect at State Street. He will be responsible for designing the strategy and… Read More »
OneZero has provided three new post-trade regulatory vendors with direct access to its Data Source data. IHS Markit, Traction and… Read More »
Commerzbank has become the first participant to make prices using the full Refinitiv Forwards Matching API solution. Refinitiv says the… Read More »
US Bank has made a strategic investment in currency management services provider Lumint. Terms of the investment were not revealed,… Read More »
Voice communications surveillance provider VoxSmart has named Larry List as head of North America, and Scott Feldman as SVP of… Read More »
The hedge fund industry continues to attract assets and has, according to the latest HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report,… Read More »
The Bank of England has unveiled an updated UK Money Market Code – the document, first published in 2017, sets… Read More »
Cloud-based communications firm Cloud9 Technologies and desktop optimisation provider Glue42 have partnered to deliver voice trading capabilities to remote users… Read More »
CME Group’s FX Link has been integrated with the Refinitiv Trade Notification (RTN) and IHS Markit’s MarkitServ messaging services. This… Read More »
Eduard Poltavsky has joined IS Prime’s institutional sales team in London. In a newly created sales director role, he will… Read More »
Capitolis has signed an agreement with Refinitiv to enable access to Capitolis’ suite of optimisation products through Refinitiv’s Trade Notification… Read More »
Macro funds continued a positive start to 2021 according to the SG Prime Services, with the firm’s Macro Trading Index… Read More »
The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has published its latest Spotlight Review, this time looking at how market participants may… Read More »
SGX’s BidFX has announced that Commerzbank has made its five FX algorithmic execution strategies available on the platform. “Commerzbank welcomes… Read More »
CLS Group says it handled $1.98 trillion per day in FX instructions during March, a 1.8% increase on February, but… Read More »
With an increasing number of central banks investigating digital currencies, the UK has joined the fray with the Bank of… Read More »
Traders at BNP Paribas have gone live with LSEG’s CurveGlobal short-term interest rate (STIR) platform. The bank already offered clients… Read More »
Northern Trust has joined a growing number of banks to establish an e-FX pricing engine in Singapore. As was the… Read More »
Peer-to-peer FX spot netting platform Siege FX now has Bloomberg’s FXGO as a routing destination for its trades – users… Read More »
Swiss banking group Lombard Odier has selected SmartTrade’s Liquidity FX solution. The bank is deploying the platform as part of… Read More »
New Change FX says it will start providing its FX, precious metal, and crypto asset market data covering circa 2,300… Read More »
Symphony Communications Services co-founder and CEO David Gurlé is stepping down from his role on 31 May 2021, with Brad… Read More »
Post-trade solution provider Baton Systems has announced that former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Christopher Giancarlo is to become a… Read More »
Algorithmic trading technology provider Pragma has named Steve Cooper as its new chief technology officer. Cooper joins from Amazon Web… Read More »
TraditionData, the data and information services division of Compagnie Financière Tradition, has launched a comprehensive interest rate derivatives data package… Read More »
CTAs had a decent month in March without blowing the doors off, although again, cryptocurrency traders produced eye-catching (and eye-watering)… Read More »
With Refinitiv reporting average daily volume data for March the picture is now complete on the FX trading venues’ performance… Read More »
TP-Icap, which now brands itself as a “diversified global markets infrastructure and data solutions provider” – itself an insight into… Read More »
4OTC, the FinTech provider of connectivity services for digital assets and FX, has announced that Russell Fernandes and Mark Price have joined… Read More »
The still nascent race to deliver electronic FX swaps trading has a new entrant with 24 Exchange launching an anonymous… Read More »
Digital assets infrastructure provider Talos has hired Justin Schmidt as head of strategy. He joins from Goldman Sachs where he… Read More »
Peer-to-peer FX swaps matching platform FX HedgePool has made three key hires as it continues to grow its business. Joining… Read More »
BlockFi has named Joseph Hickey as global head of trading. In this role, Hickey will be responsible for expanding the… Read More »
Refinitiv, now owned by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) suffered a five-hour outage on Thursday. According to market sources… Read More »
The Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC) is seeking industry feedback on proposals arising from its latest three‐year review of the… Read More »
It has been a long journey with a few inevitable bumps in the road, but the Pure Digital project –… Read More »
In what was generally a healthy month for FX trading platforms, FXSpotStream and Integral have reported their second busiest months… Read More »
FX brokerage Equiti Capital has deployed Lucera’s LumeFX aggregator as it seeks to open new markets without having to operate… Read More »
Just days after reducing the leverage available to retail clients using CFDs the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has… Read More »
The Currency Exchange Fund (TCX) says it has launched the “first-ever frontier bond currency index. The new index tracks the… Read More »
Financial resource optimisation SaaS provider Capitolis has closed a $90 million Series C funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, a… Read More »
Barclays has unveiled three new FX products on its BARX single dealer platform that the bank says further enhances its… Read More »
CME Group has announced the introduction of a new micro bitcoin futures contract on May 3, pending regulatory review. The new… Read More »
Broadridge Financial Solutions has agreed to acquire trading and connectivity firm Itiviti for EUR 2.1 billion. Itiviti claims to serve… Read More »
A product intervention order by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) regarding contracts for difference (CFDs) has gone into… Read More »
