FX Spot+: Next Generation or Challenging Fragmentation?
May 6, 2025
In the first Full FX Webinar of 2025, in association with CME Group, Colin Lambert was joined by Tom Palmer,… Read More »
In the first Full FX Webinar of 2025, in association with CME Group, Colin Lambert was joined by Tom Palmer,… Read More »
As expected, the mayhem in financial markets has translated into record turnover for several FX trading platforms, with the first… Read More »
Market impact costs rose for the March month-end benchmark fix compared to recent results, although it was very much a… Read More »
Paul Houston, global head of FX at CME Group, sits down with Colin Lambert ahead of the much-anticipated launch of… Read More »
Last week I noted in our weekly newsletter’s Any Other Business… column (exclusive to those who receive the newsletter –… Read More »
The time is rapidly approaching when sell side FX market participants have to consider another entry in the debit column… Read More »
Come to The Full FX Scandinavia at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel in Copenhagen on Thursday April 24th to meet… Read More »
As was the case with the earlier group of FX platforms to report results, CME Group’s OTC and listed FX… Read More »
Bloomberg has announced that its BMatch solution for interbank trading has been selected by Sri Lanka for trading in the… Read More »
Feedback on industry consultations is often very dry – at least in its public form – so it is both… Read More »
Following my column to start the year, I am indebted to a friend who shared some high level data with… Read More »
There has been a fair bit of information to consume over the past week, what with the FX committee turnover… Read More »
As was the case with the other platforms to report FX volume data, CME Group also had a good start… Read More »
Sorry everyone but this is going to be an old-school rant – I try very hard not to compare today’s… 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 »
Lower activity in FX markets in December is reflected in data from settlement services provider CLS, which reports a sharp… 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 »
It’s that time of the year again – when financial organisations create a whole new generation of Accidental Leaders and… 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 UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it expects trading venues to ensure that those who operate a multilateral trading… Read More »
While the FX market has a reputation as one of the most-automated in the world, areas still require manual intervention,… Read More »
There has been a bit of a buzz around the news that LSEG is changing tack in its FX business,… Read More »
With only a couple of weeks to go until the end of 2024 it feels like an opportune time for… 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 »
The first group of FX platforms to report November volume data indicate that the US election helped propel average daily… 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 »
Declining volumes on primary platforms and the rise of non-bank market makers are key trends shaping currency markets that resemble… Read More »
The rise in geopolitical tensions and the US election, have led UK fund managers to increase their FX hedging activities,… Read More »
The latest survey from Coalition Greenwich finds that multi-dealer FX platforms (MDPs) are facing a bright future with buy side… 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 »
The October month-end provided the second lowest potential savings for using a longer calculation window for the London 4pm Fix,… 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 »
Citi and Fidelity International say they have completed a proof of concept of an on-chain money market fund with a… Read More »
Foreign exchange is emerging as a key testing ground for tokenisation with use cases being tested across six major currencies,… Read More »
Is there a relationship between success, trust and transparency? Eva Szalay takes a look. It intuitively feels right that the… Read More »
After a strong run, FX volumes, as reported by the first group of platforms to provide data, fell back in… Read More »
Brown Brothers Harriman says it has expanded its relationship with Japanese asset manager Resona Asset Management to include the deployment… Read More »
Largely driven by a surge in non-spot activity, settlement services provider CLS has reported a new record for settlement volumes… Read More »
As reported by The Full FX on 17 September, Hugh Whelan has joined SGX FX, the OTC business of Singapore… Read More »
In contrast to the earlier group of platforms to report FX turnover, both LSEG FX and 360T saw a month-on-month… Read More »
Although regulation, especially SA-CCR, has been a part of many institutions’ lives for some time, as we near 2025, more… 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 »
In its latest update on FX volumes post the switch to T+1 in North American securities market at the end… Read More »
The Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC) has published a request for feedback on proposed adjustments to the FX Global Code… Read More »
The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has published a Transparency Draft aimed at updating its Statement of Good Practice for… Read More »
