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Platform volumes dip in April, FastMatch breaks trend
As volatility dampens in April, FX volumes tick lower
Weller joins Saxo Bank as Mena chief
Steve Weller headed the FX business at Sberbank CIB before resigning and taking a break from the industry
OTC derivatives values fall to 10-year low – BIS
The most recent slump continues the retreat from gains witnessed in the first half of 2016
360T hires three for senior FX roles
Randy Rupan, Robin Nicholas and Paul Lonsdale join the trading venue
Kim joins Sucden to head Apac e-FX sales
The institutional foreign exchange and derivatives broker boosts its FX sales desk
SGX invests in Cobalt
Asian exchange’s investment reinforces those made by Citi and others over the past two years
Neill Penney to serve on GFXC
He becomes the FXJSC's private-sector representative on the Global Foreign Exchange Committee
Judging panel for e-FX Awards announced
The five judges will be Kevin Rodgers, Campbell Adams, Brad Bailey, Javier Paz and FX Week editor Eva Szalay
TP Icap appoints head of institutional services, Americas
New York-based Pieter van Vredenburch takes up the role
Solid FX’s Westerman resigns, Esturi joins
Ujwal Esturi joins the liquidity management team from FastMatch
Societe Generale adds BestX to TCA suite
The independent transaction cost analysis tool will complement the bank’s own TCA product for algo-executed trades
Goldman Sachs hit with $54 million NYDFS fine
Regulator slaps bank with fine for unsafe and unsound FX practices between 2008 and 2013
Ficc veteran Jeffery joins Mosaic as chairman
Jack Jeffery becomes chairman of data analytics company with over 35 years of experience in the financial markets
Holst and Christoffersen join muinmos
Both men will invest in the firm and join its board of the Danish software and onboarding company
Dah Sing Bank to use Fenics for FX options
The regional bank will use Fenic’s services to run its FX options pricing and distribution
Zografos joins FastMatch in sales
Nicholas Zografos takes on sales role at FastMatch New York, swapping BNP Paribas for the trading venue
Bogucki hearing scheduled for May 23
Defence lawyers are set to argue that the charge is time-barred and not applicable to this case
Barings hires Smart for research role
Barings has named Christopher Smart as the head of the newly created macro and geopolitics research unit
Hadingham promoted at Nomura
Clive Hadingham is now the head of FX sales for northern Europe, having joined the Japanese bank in January
triReduce enhances compression
The firms says the new Trade Revision functionality can improve compression efficiency by up to 50%
HKEx appoints Laura Cha as chairman of board
Cha will be the first woman to lead the board of the Hong Kong Exchange
Dollar rebound on cards, but no respite long term – ABN Amro
The greenback's prospects remain negative in the long run, but sterling may have a positive 2019
RBC fights £13 million whistleblower claim
Ex-trader John Banerjee is suing RBC for unfair dismissal and aims to claim whistleblower status
Ficc revenues bounce off lows but still down
European banks bounce off lows in Ficc revenues in the first quarter of the 2018, but year-on-year earnings remain negative