The Full FX Unfiltered
March 25, 2025
In the latest Unfiltered video, Colin Lambert has a very enjoyable chat with Lisa Dukes, UK private sector representative on… 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 »
It’s clearly a more complex subject, but there is a whiff of the old hedge fund tactic around information when… Read More »
It has become fashionable in some circles to bemoan the lack of opportunities and profits available in FX markets, but… Read More »
In the latest Inheritors video in our series, Tabitha Smith, head of FX digital sales for EMEA at Citi, talks… Read More »
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 »
LSEG is to introduce a form of decimalisation to a limited number of currency pairs on its spot Matching CLOB… Read More »
Our video series talking to the next generation of managers in the FX world continues with a very entertaining discussion… Read More »
In the latest Inheritors video in our series, which talks to the next generation of managers in the FX world,… Read More »
State Street is rolling out the next development in its transformation of GlobalLink Digital with the integration of a new… Read More »
In the latest Inheritors video, Kimiya Minoukadeh, head of e-FX quant trading at ING, talks to Eva Szalay about her… Read More »
The run of relatively subdued month-end FX fixes, in terms of market impact, continued in August, although savings were still… Read More »
Managing people has often been cited as the hardest job of leadership, with two opposing views. Is it a “necessary… Read More »
It’s peak migration season, not just in the Masai Mara but also in the world of FX platforms: major players… Read More »
In the second of our series talking to the next generation of managers in the Markets world, Eva Szalay sits… Read More »
This is the first in a new video series from The Full FX, The Inheritors, in which we talk to… Read More »
Is there a tipping point at which LPs in the spot FX business say “enough” and actually do something about… Read More »
Former HSBC head of FX cash trading Mark Johnson has launched another appeal to overturn his 2017 conviction for wire… 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 »
By historical standards it was a very quiet month end FX 4pm Fix, with the potential savings from calculating over… Read More »
Much happen while I was away? Apart from a global market meltdown of course? Amidst the bloodletting in markets last… Read More »
