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FX options initiative of the year: GFI Fenics
GFI Fenics wins the inaugural e-FX award for FX options initiative of the year in recognition of the successful launch of Fenics Trader in 2011
Best FX prime broker: JP Morgan
JP Morgan wins FX Week’s first e-FX award for best foreign exchange prime broker, having set an emphasis on prudent risk management – both in its approach to high-frequency trading and to over-the-counter clearing
Bank e-FX initiative of the year: UBS
UBS wins the e-FX initiative award for its KPI reporting and analysis tool, which has filled a gap in the market and won plaudits from buy-side firms
Achievement award: Gil Mandelzis
Traiana’s co-founder and former chief executive wins the 2012 e-FX achievement award in recognition of his lasting contribution to the development of the industry over the past 12 years
Citi wins double whammy for algos and Velocity platform
A combined effort to enhance Citi's standing in e-FX lands the bank awards for best algo trading technology and most innovative bank e-trading platform
Best e-FX platform for corporates: Absa Capital
South African investment bank Absa Capital last year white-labelled Barclays technology to develop the Pace single-bank FX platform, which wins this new category in the e-FX awards
Electronic broking initiative of the year: Tradition-Icap
Foreign exchange options broker Tradition-Icap wins this new e-FX initiative award in recognition of its daily volatility fixing, which dealers see as a landmark development in the trading of volatility
Best post-trade services provider: DealHub
DealHub wins the award for best post-trade services provider as it continues to gain traction in the FX market, providing tailored cross-asset technology across the trade life cycle
Best trading technology vendor: Portware
Portware wins the award for best trading technology provider as its algorithmic and cloud capabilities gain increasing traction in the FX market
Saxo scoops retail and white-label awards
As it approaches its 20th anniversary, Denmark’s Saxo Bank wins both best retail platform and best FX white-label liquidity service
Best liquidity management system: smartTrade Technologies
SmartTrade Technologies wins the e-FX award for best liquidity management system, having gained increasing traction in the FX market with a number of large clients
Diverse netting approaches create OTC headache
A lack of legal statutes over netting in several Asian countries means OTC trades could become prohibitively expensive in a post-Basel III world, potentially pushing international banks out of some markets in the region
Standards multiply as FX TCA takes hold
Increased choice in FX transaction cost analysis (TCA) is giving asset owners more tools to measure the performance of liquidity providers, custodians and trading algos. However, with more opportunities for real-time data capture driving a diversity of…
Managing currency risk: the buy-side perspective
Saima Farooqi asked six industry experts to describe their strategies to navigate through a challenging 2012
Tail risk cheap, but few takers
Market dislocation has created attractive tail risk hedging opportunities, but demand is failing to take off, writes Joti Mangat
The rise of the red-back
Moves to automate the payment process are being matched by interest in RMB trade settlement. Saima Farooqi asks how much progress has been made so far, and talks to those with a yen for yuan
FX trading platforms: Spoilt for choice
Four new FX electronic trading platforms have been unveiled in recent weeks, each boasting unrivalled speed, efficiency and transparency. Can the market support them all?
Offshore renminbi bond market to take off in 2012
A maturing market combined with deregulation is sustaining demand for offshore renminbi bonds in the face of slowing RMB appreciation. Saima Farooqi reports
The year of the dim sum bond
A maturing market combined with deregulation is sustaining demand for offshore renminbi bonds in the face of slowing RMB appreciation. Saima Farooqi reports
Solvency II highlights need for currency risk management
Solvency II is expected to impose a specific capital charge on currency mismatches between assets and liabilities for European insurers and re-insurers, bringing currency risk under the regulatory spotlight for the first time. Although FX managers are…
Single-dealer platforms win out in electronic FX options trading
Forex option volumes and liquidity are increasing on electronic trading platforms, as providers push through the operational and competitive challenges of delivering streaming, executable prices to a diverse customer base. Despite apparent regulatory…
FX Week meets James Kemp, GFMA
The managing director of the GFMA's global FX division talks about the biggest regulatory challenges for the FX industry in 2012
What’s in store for 2012?
At the dawn of a new year, FX Week speaks to senior traders, strategists, technologists and lobbyists about their expectations for 2012. The eurozone crisis, implementation of regulation and technology upgrades top the agenda for many participants…
Review of 2011
As 2011 draws to a close, FX Week looks back on a year in which the decisions of politicians increasingly came to define the direction of major currencies, while the progress of regulatory reform was stunted by missed deadlines and challenging technical…