What Happened at the Month-End Fix?
December 5, 2024
The November month-end FX Fix saw something remarkable – the first time it has occurred in the nearly-four years that… 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 »
The Bank of England’s head of foreign exchange says trading venues and market participants that haven’t signed up to the… Read More »
Volatility and in particular the US election, has seen CME Group report a strong month in FX volume for both… 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 »
According to a new report, proprietary trading firms largely focused on low-latency trading, are more optimistic for their prospects in… Read More »
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is contesting the latest attempt by former HSBC head of FX cash trading Mark… Read More »
Société Générale has deepened its business with CLS by going live on the settlement service provider’s cross currency swaps service.… Read More »
Currency traders were once again a rare beacon of light in an otherwise tough month for CTA strategies in October,… Read More »
SGX FX has added Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) as a liquidity provider on its platform, the bank was the… Read More »
I think everyone knows by now that pre-hedging bothers me – it raises too many risks, is cloaked in ambiguity,… 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 »
The FX volume reporting “season” has closed out for October with both CLS and LCH ForexClear reporting mixed numbers, albeit… 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 »
In keeping with its peers, LSEG FX has also reported lower FX volumes in October, with activity dropping in both… 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 »
Whether we’re aware of them or not, biases shape our perceptions, decisions, and interactions with others. Formed by our experiences,… 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 »
Two weeks ago I wrote about the feedback initiative from the GFXC, part of which covered FX settlement, within which… 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 »
JP Morgan has announced a rebrand of its blockchain-based platform Onyx as the offering moves to its next chapter –… Read More »
OTP Group has selected Integral to upgrade its FX technology operations, taking the firm’s liquidity aggregation, pricing engine and trading… 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 »
BNY has announced the expansion of its iFlow product offering with the addition of more extensive fixed income and equity… 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 »
Singapore-based Spark Systems has announced it has won the mandate to deliver a core FX pricing and trading platform to… 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 »
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 Inheritors video in our series, Tabitha Smith, head of FX digital sales for EMEA at Citi, talks… Read More »
With the world and payments and settlements rapidly evolving, the Bank of England says it has been “encouraged” by the… Read More »
FX benchmark and reference data provider Siren FX has unveiled a partnership with market data provider QuantHouse to integrate its… Read More »
Messaging utility Swift says financial institutions will have the ability to use its platform to conduct pilot transactions for the… Read More »
Our video series talking to the next generation of managers in the FX world continues with a very entertaining discussion… Read More »
CLS settled its second-highest volume of spot FX trades in August, as part of what was the third busiest month… Read More »
The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA) has waded into the ongoing debate around the regulation of FX platforms with a… Read More »
In the latest Inheritors video in our series, which talks to the next generation of managers in the FX world,… Read More »
The FIX Trading Community’s global FX sub-committee has published recommended practices aimed at clarifying and simplifying practices around reject codes… Read More »
Just weeks after its Q2 Corporate FX Hedging Monitor found that political uncertainty was driving corporate FX hedging decisions, MillTech… Read More »
FX data analytics platform Tradefeedr has announced the addition of Société Génerale to its roster of providers with the integration… Read More »
In the latest Inheritors video, Kimiya Minoukadeh, head of e-FX quant trading at ING, talks to Eva Szalay about her… Read More »
The run of relatively subdued month-end FX fixes, in terms of market impact, continued in August, although savings were still… Read More »
BlueX, the FX trading technology provider owned by hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management, says it has officially gone live and… Read More »
