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Photo gallery: Best Banks Awards, November 2012
Photos from FX Week's Best Banks Awards dinner, held in London on November 21
Barclays wins with forecast of yen weakness
A forecast that the yen would weaken during November ahead of forthcoming Japanese elections lands Barclays at the top of this week's one-month currency forecast rankings
Credit Suisse e-FX sales co-head departs
The latest exit from Credit Suisse's FX sales team is its co-head of e-FX sales for the Americas
Barclays grabs top spot for FX options
The UK bank has risen from fourth to third place in this year's survey, and has also added FX options to its awards tally
Best Banks 2012: Deutsche holds top spot for fourth year
Deutsche Bank and Citi remain in first and second place in this year's market survey, while Barclays has risen to third place
Barclays Asia FX strategy head departs
Head of FX strategy for Asia ex-Japan has left Barclays after just 15 months at the bank
The jewel in the crown
Despite sweeping changes at a number of investment banks to prepare for regulation and changing market conditions, FX remains a core business for most top-tier banks
Barclays reshuffles in FX strategy
The UK bank's head of global FX strategy has moved to a new role, to be replaced by Jose Wynne
FX Week Asia: Emerging markets FX moving electronic, say bankers
Client demand for electronic trading in emerging market currencies has risen in recent years, but more progress must still be made, according to senior traders in Asia
Central bank intervention weighs on investor sentiment
FX strategists expect continued uncertainty for major currencies in the fourth quarter as a result of central bank intervention
Trading places, October 8, 2012
Departures at Barclays, BNP Paribas and JP Morgan, while Standard Chartered hires an ex-UBS salesman
More FX platforms to come, says Celent
A new research report from Celent predicts more platforms will launch in the FX market, and that the single-dealer platform will continue to gain in popularity
Ivan Ritossa to leave Barclays
Barclays' global head of FX of more than 10 years will leave the bank at the end of this year as part of a major reorganisation unveiled today
Trading places, October 1, 2012
New hires at Barclays and Citi, while Gain Capital loses its CIO and Knight Capital reorganises its management team
Barclays Stockbrokers taps FXCM for retail FX platform
FXCM replaces Integral as the chosen technology provider for Barclays Stockbrokers' new FX trading platform
Barclays FX salesperson quits for JP Morgan
A second member of Barclays' northern Europe and Switzerland FX sales team has left the bank to join JP Morgan
The platforms of 2012: TraFXpure
When it launches next year, TraFXpure hopes to become a primary trading platform in the FX market, alongside EBS and Thomson Reuters. While that’s a tall order in today’s environment, Tradition’s Daniel Marcus, Campbell Adams and Roger Rutherford believe…
Barclays upgrades Oasis FX analytics tool
Enhanced version of Oasis includes a new charting, analysis and back-testing tool, known as Atlas
Russia’s Troika Dialog hires e-FX head
Peter Holowka joins the Russian bank in London, having previously been global head of electronic commerce at UniCredit
Trading places, August 13, 2012
Departures at Citi, Deutsche Bank, Nomura and RBS, while Barclays appoints Sir David Walker as its next chairman
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
Barclays reshuffles FX derivatives management team
Adrian McGowan has relocated from Singapore to London to head FX options and forwards, prompting several FX management changes
Del Missier renews pressure on BoE over Libor scandal
Former chief operating officer of Barclays Bank says he was told instruction to submit lower Libor rates came from Bank of England; directly contradicts Bob Diamond’s testimony
Trading places, July 16, 2012
New appointments at Deutsche Bank, Barclays and FxPro