The Last Look…
I think everyone knows by now that pre-hedging bothers me – it raises too many risks, is cloaked in ambiguity,… Read More »
I think everyone knows by now that pre-hedging bothers me – it raises too many risks, is cloaked in ambiguity,… 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 »
This is a short story demonstrating how I can be fair and balanced in my commentary…almost! Last week, with some… Read More »
The Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC) has published the results of its 2023 survey of the FX Global Code, including,… Read More »
Just as we listed our 10 “most-read” stories at the top of the last newsletter of 2023 – it’s an… Read More »
Last week’s column, not unexpectedly I suppose, elicited quite a bit of feedback and comment and it was interesting that… Read More »
It is time, again, to talk about LP behaviour on platforms and those platforms’ apparent inability, or refusal, to act… Read More »
Reading the ESMA review on pre-hedging a couple of thoughts came to me on two of my favourite subjects –… Read More »
With The Full FX View The issue of pre-hedging continues to split opinion in financial markets, and in its latest… Read More »
With The Full FX view
The noose is closing inexorably around those firms in the FX market that believe they can use last look with… Read More »
CME Group’s EBS has announced a reduction in its last look threshold to 30 milliseconds from 200ms and that it… Read More »
This is the 100th column since we formed The Full FX, I would like to sincerely thank everyone who provides feedback… Read More »
I don’t know whether I was happy or irritated to find that last look exists in the car hire industry… Read More »
The recent move by some venues to prioritise FX Global Code-only liquidity has helped dilute the sense that too many… Read More »
CboeFX says that from 1 August, only liquidity providers that have a signed Statement of Commitment to the FX Global… Read More »
I accept that this column often criticises, it is part and parcel of this job, but this week I come… Read More »
Very quietly, the FX Global Code turned five last week. I remember being in New York for a Profit &… Read More »
With the one-year anniversary of the issuing of the updated FX Global Code fast approaching, XTX Markets has completed its… Read More »
I have been thinking about last look, zero hold times and the FX Global Code over the past week. I… Read More »
The last few months have seen more crypto applications and ideas deployed into the FX market, most prominently in the… Read More »
In new operating procedures due to come into effect on March 1, Cboe FX is cutting the order review time… Read More »
This is not the first changing of the guard we have seen at the Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC), but… Read More »
In the latest edition of the podcast, Colin Lambert talks to Phil Weisberg from oneZero about smarter aggregation and building… Read More »
When GFXC chair Guy Debelle stated clearly what many of us already thought – that the FX Global Code update… Read More »
The UK regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has formally recognised the updated FX Global Code and Global Precious Metals… Read More »
In the third and final instalment of the podcast series with the recently retired Lee Oliver, he and Colin Lambert… Read More »
We are going to learn a lot about how seriously FX market participants take the FX Global Code over the… Read More »
In the first of an occasional (and light-hearted) cartoon series, drawn by Madeleine Allcock, The Full FX is launching what might… Read More »
In the first episode of a three-part special, Colin Lambert and Lee Oliver, who recently stepped away from the FX… Read More »
Following the release last month of the Global Foreign Exchange Committee’s guidance paper on last lookin FX markets, oneZero is… Read More »
The Global Foreign Exchange Committee’s Three-Year Review of the FX Global Code more or less formally came to an end… Read More »
Is it time to declare the end of the era of the primary FX venue? I have been commenting on… Read More »
The FX Global Code, as its founders were keen to stress, is a living, breathing document and the most recent… Read More »
The final piece of the puzzle from the Global Foreign Exchange Committee’s three-year review has been slotted into place with… Read More »
Along with pre-hedging, last look has been one of the perennial challenges for the Global FX Committee as it seeks… Read More »
Private investment firm JC Flowers has agreed to buy a 30% stake in LMAX Group for $300 million in cash,… Read More »
In this occasional series, The Full FX talks with leading industry figures to find out what they are focusing on and what… Read More »
The results of a new survey conducted by XTX Markets finds that not only are market participants unhappy with the… Read More »
The last week has provided no little insight into how the FX market views the still tricky subject of last… Read More »
A new paper from XTX Markets, Last Look Myths Debunked, argues that additional hold times within last look windows and… Read More »
Geoff Jones, founder of GJJC Ltd an e-FX Consultancy, looks at the changing world of the FX liquidity manager, and… Read More »
The Global Foreign Exchange Committee has released two draft “guidance papers” on pre-hedging and last look and is seeking feedback… Read More »
For those of you that follow the English Premier League, I am a West Ham fan – a team that… Read More »
To kick off the Currency Matters podcast series, Colin Lambert is joined by Guy Debelle, chair of the Global Foreign… Read More »
For this column, I want to tick another issue off my list of things to talk about early in the… Read More »