FX Markets - 4 Feb 2019
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Articles in this issue
Yuan shines as UK FX turnover slips
Average daily London trading was lower in October, as were the tallies in New York and Singapore
StanChart to pay $40 million for attempted FX manipulation
UK bank says it now has appropriate control framework in place
Liquidity the biggest hurdle for traders in 2019 – JP Morgan survey
E-trading poll of 200 institutional traders highlights impact of Mifid II
CME clears FX cash-settled forwards for first time
Service debuts in January with two EUR/USD trades
IHS Markit partners Cobalt for post-trade
Cobalt’s platform now connects to MarkitServ’s network of counterparties
Refinitiv’s FXall TCA tool goes live
New features will be added to analysis tool at regular intervals in 2019
Gill to head Asia-Pacific G10 FX trading for Barclays, Singapore
UK bank’s second senior FX hire in as many months in the city-state
Lin becomes head of trading products for China at BMO
Martin Lin spent 14 years at BNP Paribas as trading head in China and Hong Kong
HSBC adds Cheesman to sales team
New York-based Jonathan Cheesman worked in FX sales at Goldman Sachs
LMAX Exchange hires two in FX sales in Asia
Appointments come on the back of the platform’s strong growth in the region
Eddie Wen named global head of digital markets at JP Morgan
Electronic trading veteran Eddie Wen shifts roles
Hope fades for threshold hike in new IM rules
Smaller buy-side firms could still escape compliance burden via expected regulatory guidance
PBoC: new liquidity tool is not ‘Chinese version of QE’
Growth-boosting measure equates to three-year easing, says one analyst
Dollar looks set to hold its own in 2019 – Informa Global
It’s a struggle to find sustainable alternatives to the greenback among G10 peers, FX fundamentals manager says