The Last Look…
May 27, 2025
Last week’s column prompted a decent mailbag, which collectively made the point that we all know there is a recurring… 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 »
The top concern for multinational banks from an FX perspective is competition from non-bank liquidity providers, a new survey from… 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 »
US regulators have opened the door for banks and savings associations to engage in digital asset activities including custody and… 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 Voice of Experience Column, Ted Holloway discusses the growing issue of data ownership, and also takes a… Read More »
There is a strange thing happening in foreign exchange, according to Eva Szalay: it’s possible to get people to passionately… Read More »
Not for the first time over the past decade or so, it seems that, for some, expectations around the growth… Read More »
This week’s column is full of opinion and thought-provoking observations, but it has a different author – I think Eva… Read More »
The Basel Committee has signalled its intention to clamp down on banks’ “window dressing” of their balance sheets at quarter… Read More »
How worried, or otherwise, should we be about buy-side adoption of the FX Global Code and how much more effort… Read More »
Although data continues to form the backbone of nearly all trading businesses in banks, new research claims that nearly two-thirds… Read More »
As flagged last week, the Basel Committee has launched a third consultation on proposed cryptoasset regulation, this one about a… Read More »
The Basel Committee has agreed to consult on what it terms “targeted revisions” to its proposed standard on cryptoassets, although… Read More »
The latest Voice of Experience from The Full FX, a series that taps into the knowledge of senior, and independent,… Read More »
For dealers of a certain generation the words “five-eighths a half, might pay nine-sixteenths for a Japanese name” evoke the… Read More »
Following a similar report in July that corporates were looking to diversify their FX counterparties, MillTechFX has now released a… Read More »
With volatility lower in April 2023 than the previous April, more customers turned to competitive channels to execute their FX… Read More »
There appears to be an eagerness around the industry to create a buzz around “peer-to-peer” spot FX trading, but I… Read More »
Long-term readers will be happy to hear that after a prolonged spell away, it’s time for me to take on… Read More »
The Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking… Read More »
The Basel Committee has published its first holistic evaluation of the impact and efficacy of the Basel III reforms, and… Read More »
Is it time to reassess the post-GFC regulatory world and consider nuancing many of the rules that were imposed more… Read More »
The 2022 BIS Triennial Survey of FX Turnover offers mixed news for sales desks, with fortunes very much dependent upon… Read More »
A new report from Acuiti finds that the majority of its Crypto Derivatives Expert Network remain optimistic over the future… Read More »
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has launched a second public consultation on the prudential treatment of banks’ cryptoasset exposures… Read More »
Refinitiv Benchmarks is to be applauded for releasing a public survey on possible reform of the WMR Benchmark Fix, for… Read More »
Lack of data standardisation, outdated software and fragmented data sources are the biggest barriers to efficiency in derivatives post-trade reconciliation,… Read More »
The US Inter-Agency Working Group for Treasury Market Surveillance (IAWG) has published an update on its continuing work to better… Read More »
In the second of a series of three articles looking at the benefits of ultra-low latency, David Faulkner, global head… Read More »
Six financial industry associations have called upon the Basel Committee to remove “material impediments” to bank involvement in cryptoasset markets,… Read More »
In the first of a two part series, The Full FX takes a look at some of the broader impacts… Read More »
It has been a long journey with a few inevitable bumps in the road, but the Pure Digital project –… Read More »
Nothing is highlighting market structure change like the current furore over retail traders – yes, the crux of that debate… Read More »
