The Last Look…
June 17, 2025
Time for a full-on, generation gap, rant. Don’t give me this “liquidity mirage: stuff again, FX markets are as robust… 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 »
The Full FX’ Inheritors video series returns, with Colin Lambert talking to the always-engaging and impressive Mercedes Ola, sales director… Read More »
Active asset manager Liontrust has expanded its relationship with BNY Mellon with the outsourcing of its trading for its investment… Read More »
In the past I have received a fair amount of blowback over my position that total transparency in markets is… Read More »
Although markets settled somewhat in May, the heightened volatility, with the associated nervousness, means that market impact at the month-end… 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 »
With TARFs like these, who needs enemies? Or the dilemma of a sales person. On a sunny summer day in… Read More »
Last week’s column prompted a decent mailbag, which collectively made the point that we all know there is a recurring… Read More »
As someone who has taken the, ahem, ‘occasional’ loss in his time, I find myself irritated by a report that… Read More »
In the latest Unfiltered video from The Full FX, Kate Massey, head of FX market data strategy at 360T talks… Read More »
Equity markets are strange, in the US especially, because everything about them seems intended to benefit market makers. I have… Read More »
Execution costs from using a shorter fixing window rose at the end of what was a busy month in FX… Read More »
In the first Full FX Webinar of 2025, in association with CME Group, Colin Lambert was joined by Tom Palmer,… Read More »
Is the mighty dollar really finished? The number of people arguing that it’s time to say goodbye to the dollar’s… Read More »
Stephen Totten, head of institutional and quantitative product at oneZero, joins Colin Lambert to discuss partnerships and how it is… Read More »
New platform launches in FX have, in recent years, tended to be low-key events, largely because everyone understands it will… Read More »
Paul Houston, global head of FX at CME Group, sits down with Colin Lambert ahead of the much-anticipated launch of… Read More »
Last week I noted in our weekly newsletter’s Any Other Business… column (exclusive to those who receive the newsletter –… Read More »
The time is rapidly approaching when sell side FX market participants have to consider another entry in the debit column… Read More »
Following the ninth annual J.P. Morgan e-Trading Edit, which this year surveyed over 4.200 traders globally, Scott Wacker, global head… Read More »
In the latest Unfiltered video, Colin Lambert has a very enjoyable chat with Lisa Dukes, UK private sector representative on… Read More »
If POTUS says it’s good, who are we to argue? At a recent networking event held by a digital asset… Read More »
With automation in non-spot FX markets continuing to grow, Colin Lambert catches up with Stephan von Massenbach, and George Procopiou… Read More »
A pattern is emerging in the month-end fixes with, for the third successive month, the average savings sitting above $300… Read More »
It is, obviously, very hard to predict how long the current volatile environment in FX markets will last (when is… Read More »
Feedback on industry consultations is often very dry – at least in its public form – so it is both… Read More »
The recent data from the world’s FX committees highlighted what we all knew – spot FX volumes soared year-on-year in… Read More »
Following my column to start the year, I am indebted to a friend who shared some high level data with… Read More »
Although the January month-end Fix showed similar market impact to recent months, there might be some concerns that the world’s… Read More »
There has been a fair bit of information to consume over the past week, what with the FX committee turnover… Read More »
The foreign exchange market has undergone significant changes over the past decade as regulatory mandates, technological advancements, and new entrants… Read More »
Final data for 2024 shows that, thanks to increased volatility and possibly more customers putting their dealers in competition, FX… Read More »
The latest iteration of the FX Global Code contains some important, but nuanced, changes, and as well as highlighting how… Read More »
Trading platforms will have to explicitly state what they do with data derived from client transactions, whether executed or not,… Read More »
Jack Linker is celebrating 50 years in the FX industry, a period that has seen tremendous change. Colin Lambert sat… Read More »
Welcome to 2025, and in the spirit of a happy new year, let’s start by giving someone a kicking! What… Read More »
2024 closed out with a relatively quiet month-end benchmark fix, with savings from using a longer calculation window largely in… Read More »
The first group of platforms to report FX volumes for December indicate that conditions were, naturally, quieter than November, but… Read More »
Due to what must have been an administrative oversight, Colin Lambert has been let loose on The Full FX’Inheritors series,… Read More »
There has been a bit of a buzz around the news that LSEG is changing tack in its FX business,… Read More »
The November month-end FX Fix saw something remarkable – the first time it has occurred in the nearly-four years that… Read More »
Last week’s column prompted several of you to get in touch with what was pretty much the same question. Where… Read More »
I think everyone knows by now that pre-hedging bothers me – it raises too many risks, is cloaked in ambiguity,… Read More »
IOSCO has published a much-anticipated consultation document on pre-hedging, following a survey of its own members, seeking wider views on… Read More »
There are those in our industry who genuinely fear for its future due to what they perceive as the inexorable… Read More »
Wafa M’Barek, Proposition Manager, SaaS Solution Market Taker Bank Segment, at 360T, joins Colin Lambert to talk about an aspect… Read More »
Ahead of testing kicking in on one of the FX industry’s biggest launches of recent times, Paul Houston, head of… Read More »
Robin Nicholas, head of FX swaps product at 360T, joins Colin Lambert for the latest Unfiltered video, to talk about… Read More »
“Feedback” and “Consultation” are interesting concepts in the world of conduct and regulation – I can’t count the number of… Read More »
In the latest Unfiltered video, Colin Lambert sits down with Yorke O’Leary and Chris Jackson, co-founders of OptAxe, to talk… Read More »
