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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: FX House of the Year, China – China CITIC Bank

For Chinese yuan trading, many investors are still wary of the two-way fluctuations in the market. Following the currency reform in 2015, foreign investors could rest assured that threatening volatility is past. China CITIC Bank has a strong belief that…

• 24 Mar 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best bank for USD/CAD – Bank of Montreal

The Covid‑19 pandemic caused a spike in trading volumes, weakening USD/CAD in early 2020. While many expected this uncertainty to suppress CAD, it rebounded faster than expected and has strengthened over the past year

• 23 Mar 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best market data provider – Bloomberg

As the threats posed by the Covid‑19 pandemic became increasingly real in early 2020, Bloomberg‘s quick thinking and smart investment allowed market participants to continue trading in FX markets

• 16 Mar 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best vendor for dealing technology – 360T

360T made the most of 2020 by building up its MidMatch platform – a fully automated FX swaps limit order book with mid-rate matching capability. It brings long-established technology into the FX spot market and applies it to FX swaps – and 360T plans to…

• 03 Mar 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best bank for FXPB, post-trade services and SMEs – NatWest Markets

Despite unprecedented disruptions brought about by the Covid‑19 pandemic, new clients continued to use NatWest Markets’ FX prime brokerage business in 2020 due to its uniquely diversified approach

• 03 Mar 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best bank for FX algos, forwards and swaps, and Europe – BNP Paribas

Despite the uncertainty wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, BNP Paribas‘ history of sensible decisions has allowed it to thrive among the chaos through initiatives such as its interactive algo trading assistant Alix, which allows users to speak and receive…

• 15 Feb 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best bank for regional/domestic banks – Standard Bank

Despite unprecedented volatility brought on by the Covid‑19 pandemic, Standard Bank managed to consistently make prices in African FX markets by nurturing a culture of constant evolution from within, while building on traditional skills and experiences

• 11 Feb 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best broker for NDFs and Best broker for spot – EBS

With the events of 2020 putting the FX market through opposing poles of extreme volatility, EBS has stood out from the crowd, offering clients the abliity to execute trades efficiently under unprecedented and extremely challenging circumstances

• 27 Jan 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best prime-of-prime house – Saxo Bank

Amid a year of uncertainty brought about by Covid-19, many professional traders turned to Saxo Bank – and its more than 40,000 financial instruments – to take advantage of the breadth of its offering

• 26 Jan 2021

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best execution algorithm provider – Morgan Stanley

Facing evolving demands in a world struck by the Covid‑19 pandemic, Morgan Stanley has adapted to trends and readied a new non-deliverable forward product, while its algo product suite has outshone its peers

• 18 Jan 2021

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e-FX Awards 2020: Best liquidity provider for corporates; Best liquidity provider for options; and Best single dealer platform – Citi

While 2020 presented the FX industry with unprecedented challenges, technology came to the fore in a remarkable manner to smooth the transition towards a remote working environment

• 04 Jan 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: The winners

Citi takes 12 categories, including best bank for FX; HSBC follows with six wins

• 11 Dec 2020

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e-FX Awards 2020: Best non-bank algo provider – Tradepoint Systems

With the growing utilitarian nature of algorithms across instruments and functions, many top tier one banks have resorted to building in-house algo solutions. Tradepoint Systems offers an alternative, allowing banks to benefit from external expertise and…

• 02 Dec 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: FX house of the year, Australia and FX house of the year, NDFs – ANZ

ANZ found its conventional working practices upended by the Covid‑19 pandemic, but its access to global pools of liquidity in straitened times allowed its highly motivated personnel to act quickly in response to client demands

• 25 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX exchange – Singapore Exchange

High volatility and liquidity in FX markets caused soaring demand for risk management and record trading volumes when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. KC Lam, head of rates and FX at Singapore Exchange, describes how the firm avoided disruption as the…

• 18 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX settlement and risk mitigation solution/Best market data provider – CLS Group

As the largest settlement risk mitigation provider in the FX markets, CLS Group already plans to widen its market-stabilising mission and make settlement safer, more efficient and more cost-effective

• 17 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX post-trade provider – TriOptima

Supplying both multilateral compression and optimisation services to global FX markets, consistent high performance from TriOptima has seen the firm go from strength to strength in challenging times

• 17 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: The winners

Citi lands four wins in this year’s awards

• 12 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: FX house of the year, Hong Kong and FX house of the year, Singapore

In a challenging year, OCBC’s teams in Hong Kong and Singapore have continued to grow the bank’s franchise, deepen client relationships and drive engagement. We spoke to the global treasury team’s Wee Wei Min, global head of sales and structuring, and…

• 11 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX prime-of-prime – Invast Global

Flexible solutions in a volatile market and providing the overlooked small end of the hedge fund space with liquidity streams has laid the foundation for Invast Global to expand into new ventures

• 11 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX ECN – Euronext Markets Singapore

Efficiency, accuracy and unbeatable execution speeds in Singapore have helped Euronext provide sterling service in a volatile and fragmented market – and even treble spot volumes in Asia trading.

• 11 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX aggregator – smartTrade

Clients of all sizes are constantly searching for better ways to ensure best liquidity, and found a perfect solution in LiquidityFX from smartTrade, which also facilitates smart-order routing and distribution

• 11 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best buy-side FX trading platform – FactSet

The powerful automation capabilities of Portware Enterprise FX, the trading solution from FactSet, are highly sought after by clients eager to manage the increasing scale and complexity of their dealing requirements

• 11 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX analytics provider – First Derivatives

With its Kx Streaming Analytics solution, First Derivatives has put data-driven analytics in the hands of its clients, allowing them to react to data insights instantly and make smarter business decisions

• 11 Nov 2020