Monetary Policy
SPECIAL FEATURE: CLS settlement: the next five years
This month marks the five-year anniversary of CLS. FX Week and Rob Close, president and CEO of CLS Bank, discuss the past five years and the future of the industry utility
Preparing for a decline in cable
WHAT STRATEGY SHOULD BE ADOPTED AHEAD OF STERLING'S FALL AGAINST THE US DOLLAR? BEN TYLER , ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, STRUCTURED FX AT LLOYDS TSB CORPORATE MARKETS IN LONDON INVESTIGATES
Reserve diversification
Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at the Bank of New York in London, suggests a simple, low-cost method to take advantage of any move by the Chinese authorities to diversify
Middle East violence boosts US dollar
Conflict in the Middle East contributed to a surge in the dollar and a big drop in the value of Asian currencies last week.
INR – everything is relative
The INR’s over-extended valuation against the Reserve Bank of India’s REER implicit policy anchor continues. This over-extension is looking anomalous against the continued backdrop of Asian FX selling. Claudio Piron, Asian FX strategist at JP Morgan in…
Return of the voice broker
Cantor Fitzgerald revives voice broking market with spin-off firm. NEW YORK - Cantor Fitzgerald reversed a trend of consolidation in the broking market last week by spinning off a new firm to focus exclusively on voice broking.
GFI closes FX options mark-to-market gap
NEW YORK -- Solving the problem of marking FX options to market came a step closer to being resolved last week, with the launch of a new ‘revaluation fixing’ service from New York-based interdealer broker GFI.