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April 15, 2025
R.J. O’Brien has reached a definitive agreement to merge what is the US’ oldest futures brokerage and clearing company into… Read More »
R.J. O’Brien has reached a definitive agreement to merge what is the US’ oldest futures brokerage and clearing company into… Read More »
LCH SwapClear says it has cleared its inaugural Malaysian ringgit-denominated non-deliverable interest rate swaps (NDIRS). Launched in response to growing… Read More »
24 Exchange says that it has received approval as a trade source for NDF clearing at LCH ForexClear, part of… Read More »
Euronext says its central counterparty services, via Euronext Clearing, will be expanded to include cryptocurrency exchange traded products (ETPs). This… Read More »
LSEG’s ForexClear has reported its first results for 2025, hitting a new record for FX options and NDFs cleared. ForexClear… Read More »
CME Group and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) have announced plans to expand their existing cross-margining arrangement to… Read More »
Following the EMIR 3.0 Active Account requirement announced by the European Commission, whereby market participants are required to open active… Read More »
Commerzbank has become the 23rd member bank on LCH ForexClear, according to an announcement by the LSEG-owned clearinghouse. The bank… Read More »
A new report from Coalition Greenwich finds that margin optimisation is once again a big feature of market participants’ thinking,… Read More »
Something the FX market witnessed 20 years in spot is emerging in FX options as non-bank players eye the market.… Read More »
Increased FX volumes in August were to the benefit of LCH ForexClear, which has reported new highs for volumes across… Read More »
FMX Futures Exchange has formally launched, backed by BGC Group and 10 market participants, initially the venue will offer SFOR… Read More »
LSEG FX says United Overseas Bank (UOB) has become the first Singaporean bank to joins its NDF Matching platform, which… Read More »
Wells Fargo has become the third new clearing member to joins LCH’s ForexClear over the past 12 months, a move… Read More »
As buy-side firms use artificial intelligence and other digital tools to remake trading infrastructure, a new report says the drive… Read More »
Just two years after writing down $460 million on its deal to buy digital asset spot trading and clearing firm… Read More »
LCH SA has received the required regulatory approval European regulators to allow it to provide clearing services for cash-settled bitcoin… Read More »
ClearToken, a firm claiming to be the first “horizontal clearing house for the digital asset market, says it has received… Read More »
The automation of FX options has become a bigger theme in FX circles over the past year, making it an… Read More »
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the Bank for International Settlements’ Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and… Read More »
After several proof of concept runs, Quantile and LCH ForexClear last week formally launched FX Smart Clearing, a service that… Read More »
LSEG’s NDF Matching platform has gone live in Singapore’s SG1 – the first foray into the centre by one of… Read More »
Cboe Digital says it is to become first US regulated crypto native exchange and clearing house to enable both spot and leveraged… Read More »
Singapore’s United Overseas Bank (UOB) has become the first bank in south-east Asia to join LCH’s ForexClear and SwapClear mechanisms… Read More »
Union Investment has executed its first block FX futures trade through Deutsche Börse’s 360T, the deal was processed directly into… Read More »
Deutsche Börse’s Eurex has had BNY Mellon select it as the bank’s first repo clearing house outside the US and… Read More »
I have noted through various channels over the past few months, how the FX swaps market structure appears to be… Read More »
Eurex says its extension of is Partnership Programme to the short-term interest rate (STIR) derivatives segment is gaining traction, with… Read More »
Goldman Sachs has joined Eurex’ listed FX business as a trading and clearing member as well as a liquidity provider… Read More »
Although the numbers remain relatively small compared to the overall foreign exchange market, the latest data from LSEG’s ForexClear indicates… Read More »
With The Full FX View A new study from Coalition Greenwich says that while OTC derivatives clearing has been with… Read More »
Crypto execution technology provider Crossover Markets says it has become the first external technology venue to connect to Cboe Digital,… Read More »
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has published a Staff Advisory on the risks associated with clearing organisations expanding… Read More »
When phase 6 of the uncleared margin rules (UMR) came into force at the start of September 2022, there was… Read More »
State Street has executed its first centrally-cleared repo transactions on Eurex, marking this as the first clearing house outside the… Read More »
ISDA has published its latest margin survey, which shows that $1.4 trillion in initial margin (IM) and variation margin (VM)… Read More »
Digital assets interbank platform Pure Digital has entered into a proof of concept agreement with ClearToken, a digital assets clearing… Read More »
LCH SA has announced it will offer clearing of Bitcoin index futures and options contracts traded on GFO-X, subject to… Read More »
In the latest edition of The Full FX video series Unfiltered, Colin Lambert talks to Gavin Wells, head of FX… Read More »
Optimisation services provider Quantile says it has developed the FX market’s first backloading service, something it says will accelerate the… Read More »
LCH ForexClear says Standard Chartered has partnered with IndusInd Bank to clear its first NDF client transaction at LCH, the… Read More »
Three financial industry associations have published a statement criticising the European Union’s proposed EMIR 3.0 regulation as “harmful” to Europe’s… Read More »
One of the challenges facing anyone trying to launch a new FX platform, or indeed to seriously grow an existing… Read More »
LCH’s ForexClear service cleared a new high of $24.8 trillion in notional FX volumes in 2022, as part of broader… Read More »
The increased volatility in markets generally has seen clearing firms become more proactive in margin calls on clients and a… Read More »
For a second year in succession co-founder of The Full FX, Colin Lambert was invited on the 360T podcast to… Read More »
LCH ForexClear has announced that asset manager Schroders has become the first European asset manager to clear through its services.… Read More »
The latest progress report into the G20’s OTC derivatives markets reform programme has a familiar sound to it with the… Read More »
With European Union authorities keen to attract more euro clearing from the UK to the Eurozone, Eurex has started offering… Read More »
While the FX market has, largely, been minimally affected by the changing regulatory landscape over the past five years, the… Read More »
