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Currency floor breach raises questions over SNB policy
The Swiss National Bank should consider enlisting the help of top-tier banks to keep EUR/CHF above 1.20, forex traders suggest
FXall enters monthly volume contest with strong March results
Average daily volume on FXall in March was $90.4 billion, up 9% on March 2011
Veteran EM trader exits RBS for the buy side
Eric Lieberson has left Royal Bank of Scotland after 17 years, to join Civic Capital, a New York-based advisory firm set to launch a hedge fund later this year
Goldman Sachs sales director departs for Nomura
Evren Pacalioglu Tore has left Goldman Sachs and will join Nomura later this year
A spot of bother
Traders exploiting the spread between CNH deliverable forwards and CNY NDFs got a nasty surprise in September last year, when the basis trade blew up amid a reversal of the spread. Georgina Lee looks at what investors can learn from this turn of events
Trading places, April 9, 2012
Departures from JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, while Deutsche Bank appoints a salesman from Credit Suisse
Frontier currencies gain traction with investors
FX strategists and currency managers report growing interest in frontier currencies such as the Kenyan shilling, Ugandan shilling and Nigerian naira
Depressed FX trading volumes continue in March
Average daily spot volume on EBS and Thomson Reuters remained low in March in comparison to previous years, both platforms have reported this week
UK Lords committee takes on financial transaction tax
The model proposed by the European Commission for a financial transaction tax would not meet its objectives and the UK government should redouble its efforts to veto the proposal, says the House of Lords
Oanda unveils new social networking-based spot platform
Oanda's fxUnity platform, unveiled this week, is aimed at making FX trading simpler and more user-friendly for aspiring currency traders
SG CIB appoints new Fic sales heads
Albert Loo and Pascale Moreau have been promoted to head up fixed-income and currencies sales as part of a management shake-up at SG CIB
Francis leaves top sales role at RBS
Lisa Francis, head of UK and northern European FX sales, has left Royal Bank of Scotland
FXall appoints new Emea head as Warms departs
Mark Warms will leave FXall this week, having been with the firm since its inception, to be replaced by James Watson
Record Currency Management loses counterparty management head
Preeya Patel is to leave Record Currency Management after five years, and is understood to be joining Westpac
Gian-Luca Fetta takes FX lead at SG CIB
Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking has promoted its equity flow co-head to run foreign exchange, following a number of recent departures
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BNP Paribas expands in prime brokerage
Matt Pinnock will join in May as head of prime brokerage services for Europe and Asia
FXall appoints tech heavyweight as CIO
Steve Rubinow joins FXall from Nyse Euronext, reporting directly to Phil Weisberg
Isda working group close to finalising standard CSA
Latest proposal extends number of silos from five to 17, mirroring approach taken by LCH.Clearnet
Tradeo to launch with social trading network
New social networking site will allow FX traders to connect to their peers – and to trade
ITG eyes April launch for new FX TCA tool
Second iteration of the technology provider's transaction cost analysis tool for forex will launch in April, two years after the first version
Trade repositories consider connectivity options
With multiple trade repositories appearing in a number of asset classes, including foreign exchange, market participants are considering how competing repositories should collaborate to avoid data inconsistency. Chiara Albanese reports
Trading Places, April 2, 2012
New appointments at Macquarie, Numerix and the Swedish central bank, while SGX announces a major restructuring
Sprint to the finish line for would-be Sefs
With the clock ticking ever closer towards the G-20’s end-of-2012 deadline for implementation of over-the-counter derivatives market reforms, and some of the critical details of those reforms still not fully fleshed out, the scene is set for an almighty…