The Last Look…
May 30, 2023
My antenna was tweaked a week or so ago by a report that at least two HFT-type firms were supposedly… Read More »
My antenna was tweaked a week or so ago by a report that at least two HFT-type firms were supposedly… Read More »
Finery Markets has released FM Liquidity Match, a solution it claims is the “first-ever electronic OTC-as-a-service for digital assets”. The… Read More »
The latest Global FX Microstructure in Review paper from Bank of America, highlights a first quarter of 2023 in FX… Read More »
Following news that United Fintech following its acquisition of the business, is relaunching CobaltFX, Colin Lambert talks to United Fintech… Read More »
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has added a study of risks and vulnerabilities in the banking system to its… Read More »
If anyone was wondering why there is so much emphasis on payment-versus-payment in FX markets amongst regulators, they need only… Read More »
Following the release of the seventh annual JP Morgan e-Trading Edit, which polls traders’ views of key market structure and… Read More »
UBS has agreed to buy Credit Suisse in a move to shore up the global banking system as much as… Read More »
After the success of last year’s event, The Full FX is returning to Scandinavia for our first event of 2023… Read More »
A study from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) finds that while margin rules have helped reduce counterparty credit risk,… Read More »
The pace of growth in FX turnover in Japan outperformed other centres according to the latest semi-annual FX turnover surveys,… Read More »
A new Working Paper published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) finds that dealer constraints in FX spot markets… Read More »
Edgewater Markets has named Andres Cifuentes as global head of liquidity across its FX, NDF and precious metals services. He… 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 »
B2C2 has unveiled a strategic collaboration with Blockdaemon and StakeWise to be the sole liquidity provider for the staked Ethereum… Read More »
Market, credit, and liquidity risk top the list of concerns for financial institutions as 2023 approaches, according to a new… Read More »
Tech provider OneZero has made two additions to its network of trading venues and liquidity providers. The firm has added… Read More »
In its latest Quarterly Review, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) seeks to highlights the challenge of “huge, unseen dollar… 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 »
With peer-to-peer trading in FX seemingly attracting more attention than ever, it is an opportune time for Colin Lambert to… Read More »
In its latest Expected Cost Monitor report, BestX carries a feature on the recent Japanese interventions to strengthen the yen,… Read More »
Emerging markets ECN DMALink says it will expand its FX Global Code-compliant liquidity streams available from on its platform, becoming… Read More »
Do we need to change how the BIS Triennial Survey data is collated and published? I am always reluctant to… Read More »
24 Exchange has been added to the venues partnering with digital assets technology provider Talos to stream liquidity via the… Read More »
Crypto execution platform Finery Markets has teamed up with prime brokerage services provider Hidden Road, to deliver liquidity and execution… Read More »
Great is the number of post-2005 entrants to the FX market that have been battered with stories and legends from… Read More »
With The Full FX View Euronext FX has become the latest platform to unveil plans to transition its anonymous spot… Read More »
The next week or so will see both EBS and Refinitiv release their volume data for September and both should… Read More »
The provisional programme for the 60th World Congress of ACI – The Financial Markets Association, which is being held in… Read More »
These are certainly different times in the FX market compared to what we have all become used to, and for… Read More »
The price action in Cable on Monday morning in Asia has led some to question whether the FX market saw… Read More »
Citing an “intolerable and unsustainable” situation as well as the need for “price transparency and deeper liquidity”, a new firm,… Read More »
Why the FX industry should not follow the all-to-all, fully transparent, equities style market structure, part 106. Just when we… Read More »
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published a survey of 25 member firms in response to discussions by… Read More »
Liquidity is front and centre in the latest podcast as Sam Horowitz, head of FX distribution and liquidity management at… Read More »
Crypto options liquidity provider OrBit Markets, which launched earlier this year, has teamed up with options trading platform SynOption, through… Read More »
The latest in our video series is live, with Colin Lambert talking to Alex Knight, head of EMEA and global… Read More »
I had a very interesting conversation with someone in the crypto world last week during which we agreed that the… Read More »
In the fourth instalment of the Disruptor series, Colin Lambert and LMAX Group CEO David Mercer get to talk –… Read More »
Stablecoins – discuss. At least I have one ‘W’ under my belt when Galen Stops and I reconvene to assess… Read More »
Well, this column was going to discuss the question, ‘What’s with Bitcoin price action recently?’ but the market seems to… Read More »
I was talking to someone in the platform world the other day who suggested these were golden days for the… Read More »
Crypto algo trading firm Wintermute has launched Node, an OTC trading platform for institutions and qualified individuals. The firm says the… Read More »
Bad news for the crypto industry – I suspect that one of my least popular FX market mechanisms is coming… Read More »
Colin Lambert talks to newly-appointed chair of the Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), Kevin Wolf, about the challenges and opportunities… Read More »
Long-time readers will know I have issues with repapering trades unless it is a genuine “fat-finger” error – a panic… Read More »
BidX Markets, a retail-orientated liquidity solutions provider, has announced it has received investment from Solid in a step towards building… Read More »
In the first edition for 2022, Jay Moore, co-founder and CEO of FX HedgePool, joins Colin Lambert to talk a… Read More »
Ion Markets’ TradAir has partnered with cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange BlockQuake, to improve liquidity integration. The firms say the… Read More »
Much has been made of the decline in volumes at both Refinitiv’s Matching and EBS Market over the past few… Read More »
