Articles by FX Markets Staff

• Awards

FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: The winners

Citi lands four wins in this year’s awards

• 12 Nov 2020

• Regulation

UK’s FCA bans crypto derivatives for retail investors

FCA says retail crypto assets have no reliable valuation basis and could increase financial crime

• 12 Oct 2020

• Infrastructure

ECB steps up research on ‘digital euro’

Central bank analysing both centralised and decentralised options for a digital currency

• 06 Oct 2020

• Awards

e-FX Awards 2020: The winners

Citi takes three categories in 18th annual awards; XTX picked as best LP for spot, while Goldman wins algo crown

• 16 Sep 2020

• Tech and data

Boston Fed and MIT collaborate on digital currency research

Research results on software architecture will be released as open source

• 17 Aug 2020

• Trading

Statisticians grapple with inflation impact of Covid-19

Collecting reliable inflation figures during lockdown is not straightforward

• 23 Apr 2020

• Regulation

FSB outlines 10-point plan for stablecoin risks

Some powers already exist but stablecoins may cut across regulatory boundaries, report says

• 14 Apr 2020

• Regulation

Covid-19 could spur central bank digital currencies – BIS

Fear could promote use of CBDCs but data is yet to point to whether cash demand has changed

• 07 Apr 2020

• Regulation

Major economies already engaging in ‘currency wars’ – former IMF chief

De Larosière floats new commodity-based exchange rate regime

• 25 Mar 2020

• Foreign Exchange

FX Week February 17 2020 digital download (exclusive to FX Week Corporate subscribers)

• 17 Feb 2020

• Infrastructure

Four more banks join CLSNet

Bilateral payments netting service using distributed ledger tech now has nine firms live

• 12 Feb 2020

• People

Theta hires Meddemmen as chief technology officer

Specialist provider of buy-side trading tech as a service will launch FX capabilities at year-end

• 11 Feb 2020

• People

Diginex appoints Edwards as head of investment products

A former managing director at UBS Investment Bank, his financial career spans 20 years

• 11 Feb 2020

• Foreign Exchange

FX Week February 10 2020 digital download (exclusive to FX Week Corporate subscribers)

• 10 Feb 2020

• Trading

Investment Association calls for standardisation of FX reject codes

The 13 new high-level categories will allow rejection causes to be remedied quicker

• 05 Feb 2020

• Tech and data

Average reported daily UK FX turnover hits record high

Daily turnover of $2,881bn in October 2019, up 2% from previous high of $2,821bn in April

• 04 Feb 2020

• Foreign Exchange

FX Week February 3 2020 digital download (exclusive to FX Week Corporate subscribers)

• 03 Feb 2020

• Trading

Refinitiv pledges FX brokerage to Australian bushfire relief

The area already burned is triple the size of the land destroyed by the 2018 California fires

• 27 Jan 2020

• Foreign Exchange

FX Week January 27 2020 digital download (exclusive to FX Week Corporate subscribers)

• 27 Jan 2020

• People

Wemyss to head business development at Digital Vega

After a quarter century at JP Morgan, he joins the FX options e-trading platform

• 22 Jan 2020

• Foreign Exchange

FX Week January 20 2020 digital download (exclusive to FX Week Corporate subscribers)

• 20 Jan 2020

• People

360T hires Gavin Wells to lead FX swaps strategy

Industry veteran joining in February to drive 360TGTX MidMatch product

• 15 Jan 2020

• Foreign Exchange

FX Week January 6 2020 digital download (exclusive to FX Week Corporate subscribers)

• 06 Jan 2020

• Foreign Exchange

FX Week December 23 2019 digital download (exclusive to FX Week Corporate subscribers)

• 23 Dec 2019