The Last Look…
September 29, 2026
There is little doubt that momentum behind the concept of 24/7 trading is growing – obviously it is already a… Read More »
There is little doubt that momentum behind the concept of 24/7 trading is growing – obviously it is already a… Read More »
Following Part One of his thoughts on the role of e-FX sales, in Part Two of his Voice of Experience… Read More »
I have long been a sceptic on mainstream multi-asset class trading, largely because of the challenges of very different market… Read More »
In the latest in The Full FX’ Voice of Experience series, Zach Felshman takes a look – over two parts… Read More »
Our industry is becoming increasingly focused, obsessed even, with workflow efficiency, something that has fed into the “AI is a… Read More »
When I first started writing about foreign exchange markets 15 years ago, custody was big news: the two largest providers… Read More »
In an always-on world made busier by the demands of AI adoption, taking time to focus on what’s important is… Read More »
Payments and FX have always had a rather strange relationship: on the one hand, cross-border money movements is the very… Read More »
The FX Committee Semi Annual Surveys offer an insight into market participant behaviour, the headline act in the latest round… Read More »
The latest semi-annual FX turnover surveys from seven of the world’s local FX committees indicates that rather than declining after… Read More »
I can’t help but feel that prediction markets need to get their act together and make what might seem some… Read More »
The Global Foreign Exchange Committee’s latest survey of the FX Global Code is now live and available for market participants… Read More »
Far be it for me to give a national authority some feedback on its activities, but on the basis it… Read More »
Currency trading venues experienced a boost in volumes on Friday as the US Treasury stepped into FX markets to stop… Read More »
The subject of non-bank market makers and the primary venues has raised its head again, with several people keen to… Read More »
Markets continue to automate, and technology has immense value – is indeed indispensable to any Markets operation – but as… Read More »
I can’t help thinking about valuations again. Singapore-based trading platform Crypto.com just announced its first institutional funding round that puts… Read More »
Fenics Market Data, OpenYield, and Tradeweb are joining Pyth as data providers, adding institutional fixed income pricing to the Pyth… Read More »
When it comes to 24 hour trading, is 7 better than 5? It’s a question that’s increasingly relevant for FX,… Read More »
AI has the potential to free up capacity across every function in financial markets, but is the aspiration to do… Read More »
It’s been a while, I know, but we do really still need to talk about the London 4pm Fix, especially… Read More »
The chat room debacle in the FX industry put paid to most instances of major banks sharing information among themselves,… Read More »
I have to confess – and sorry to get all technical on you – FX settlement risk is doing my… Read More »
Are prediction markets coming for macro? Prediction markets have a habit of making people uncomfortable. That is partly because they… Read More »
The next review of the FX Global Code will examine how digital asset technologies, tokenisation and new settlement mechanisms could… Read More »
Why should we be worried about the potential for crowded trades in one market segment but not another? More pertinently,… Read More »
The dust has settled after IOSCO’s report on pre-hedging, so it’s probably a good time for a new perspective –… Read More »
A new paper published by Deutsche Bank advocates for an approach to currency hedging by investors that “moves beyond static… Read More »
At the recent Full FX Scandinavia event, a panel of young FX professionals shared some great insights into their experiences… Read More »
We all love innovation don’t we? Well, sometimes we do. Me? If I find the people at Apple who last… Read More »
A crypto partner is not just for PoC… The rush by traditional finance into digital assets increasingly resembles a familiar… Read More »
For the less technology-savvy, the ban on indoor smoking was probably the most significant vibe coding event in FX markets… Read More »
There has been a rise in the noise level recently around the growth of non-bank firms in FX, and how… Read More »
With all the goings on in the world, opportunities are aplenty in foreign exchange markets nowadays. This is clearly showing… Read More »
Often in our markets the low-hanging fruit for automation has been the interbank, or inter-dealer, market, where participants have access… Read More »
In the latest Unfiltered video, Eva Szalay talks to Simon Bevan, global head of e-trading at ING, about what they… Read More »
Prediction markets are the hot topic in certain parts of the world, indeed, Eva wrote about the staggering valuations in… Read More »
In high-tempo environments like financial markets, busyness is often mistaken for effectiveness, but research shows that relentless activity erodes judgment,… Read More »
The FX industry changed a little last week; for the first time in more than 50 years, Jack Linker was… Read More »
Institutional investors are getting much more involved in the crypto space, after many years sitting on the sidelines. The Full… Read More »
It has to be one of the longest-standing traditions of the FX market – customer asks for a price; dealer… Read More »
A new post by Silicon Valley Bank, part of First Citizens, argues that firms that are “FX agnostic”, and therefore… Read More »
I predict a riot. What begins with a K and is valued at $22 billion? In a business that handles… Read More »
The tenth annual J.P. Morgan E-Trading Edit has been published, you can access the findings here, providing insight into traders’… Read More »
Fragmentation in FX markets continues with the launch of OneChronos FX, an auction-based spot FX trading venue that follows a… Read More »
The Irony of Ironies. Readers of this column will be familiar with my tendency to bang on about the benefits… Read More »
It’s always, well, sometimes, nice when a central bank agrees with you. That was the case going through the Swiss… Read More »
FX platforms have largely been immune from the need to cut costs that have dominated so many banks’ thinking over… Read More »
JP Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon was a vocal FUDster* for several years before embracing blockchain technology in the form of… Read More »
Bitcoin, collateral and the dollar. As bitcoin’s crash hogs the headlines it has gone relatively unnoticed that something important happened:… Read More »
