Deutsche Bank – HausFX on Aladdin 2026

It is clear that we like the concept and design of HausFX – we gave it our Product of the Year award last year, so it is always nice to follow up an award given for potential, with one for an actual deployment.

By deploying HausFX on BlackRock’s Aladdin, Deutsche Bank has opened a distribution channel to one of the largest user groups in the investor space, it has also provided the perfect explanation as to why the product was built. Many years ago, the editor of this publication was starting to question the scale of spending on UBS’ Neo given the relatively limited user group, only to be met with the onboarding of that bank’s Wealth Management clients. That was a game changer for the platform and this feels similar.

The deployment addresses a long-standing operational challenge for institutional investors: efficiently handling FX linked to cross-border securities activity. As settlement cycles shorten and regulatory complexity increases, the need for automated operational workflows is critical. HausFX has embedded logic to streamline access across developed, emerging and restricted market currencies. This allows clients to maintain control of their full trade lifecycle and minimise the drag on returns from operational FX workflows. 

For clients in this sphere, several of whom have historically treated FX as a nuisance, this could be a game-changer because it brings not only better execution outcomes, but also a seamless – and importantly tech burden-free – way to automate a process that even now often remains too manual.

By connecting with Aladdin, Deutsche is providing a solution to a long-running problem in the asset management community, the lack of choice when it comes to a truly efficient way to hedge their FX exposures, especially in emerging or restricted markets (where they are probably investing more than ever). Solutions do exist to help this, but what has happened here is Deutsche is, in one swoop, providing the solution to more than 250 major firms.