e-FX Awards: NatWest Markets – Best FX Prime Broker
The bank deliberately positioned its FXPB business to cater for high-touch clients
The foreign exchange prime brokerage (PB) landscape is very different from that of five years ago, with many well-documented drivers, such as regulatory changes, and one clear consequence: diversification.
While banks are looking at the same problems and challenges posed by regulatory changes, such as stricter capital rules, uncleared margin requirements and higher collateral charges, they are coming up with different solutions.
“The market has changed very materially from five years ago, when
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