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Cambodia extends blockchain payment system pilot
Central bank lengthens trial to end of year and explores including cross-border transactions
Dispo joins BNY Mellon in London
Louise Dispo spent almost a decade as a FX and rates EM trader at Standard Chartered Bank
Knight tapped to lead Baton’s Emea expansion
Citi veteran to head Emea as California-based firm opens London office
Angola abandons currency trading band
Central bank floats currency in bid to alleviate FX shortage, after IMF raises concerns
Argentina tightens currency controls following Macri’s defeat
Left-wing opposition leader Alberto Fernandez wins October 27 presidential elections
Thompson to head FX options at BNY Mellon in NY
Joining the US bank from ANZ, Neal held a similar position from 2015
BGC's Lucera hires Crane
Following a career that began in product management at EBS in 1990, Crane moves to the fintech firm
Johnson seeks rehearing, argues lower fraud bar threatens markets
Former trader’s attorney says that in affirming his conviction, the panel has set a low bar for fraud
ECB and PBoC renew bilateral currency swap
Euro-renminbi currency swap agreement will stay in place until October 2022
Numbering association starts work on crypto identifiers
Anna task force explores how Isins can be extended to digital assets such as tokenised securities and cryptocurrencies
First cross-currency swap cleared at Eurex
Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan first to use service and two more banks are onboarding as CCP hopes to extend offering to clients in 2020
FXall bolsters frontier liquidity with new partnership
The alliance will extend liquidity to several currencies in Africa and Asia
Facebook not trying to replace central banks, claims Zuckerberg
Facebook chief plays down economic impact and says libra can help fight financial crime
Millennium Global expands European presence with Paris office
The firm is set to make 12 new hires at its recently opened French base
Algo adoption at inflection point, driven by buy side
Usage in FX is rising, but there are inherent limitations to overall take-up
CEO Takabatake leaves Oanda Asia-Pacific
Three-year spell at FX broker comes to an end
BdF paper looks at digital currency and remuneration
Remuneration is key consideration for design of central bank-issued digital currencies, paper argues
Spotex introduces risk engine to aid PB expansion
Periscope allows multiple levels of brokers to extend access to the firm’s institutional ECN
Galin Georgiev joins PrimeXM as new COO
Former head of trading at Saxo Bank’s ForexTrading.com joined this month
Qureshi replaces McAuley as DBS Bank’s head of trading
Former head of GBP rates trading at SocGen joined the firm this month
Bass joins Crédit Agricole in EM FX and rates trading
After 11 years at Standard Chartered he moved last month
‘Hegemonic digital currency’ could help fix global system – Carney
Using CBDC to facilitate online sales could bring about more rapid change, governor says
Refinitiv to launch NDF matching and streaming next year
Matching and streaming of NDFs could create larger liquidity pool and boost their electronic trading
Bankers are ignoring crypto assets’ flaws – expert
Technologists are more worried than financiers by problems, expert tells IMF panel