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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…

Westpac continues FX hiring spree

Blake Jensen, formerly of RBS, has joined Westpac in institutional sales as the latest in a number of key hires across sales and trading globally

Why the consensus is wrong on USD/JPY

RBC Capital Markets has taken a contrarian view on the yen for several years, predicting it would strengthen against the US dollar while the consensus forecast was for yen strength. After the bank’s contrarian view has proved accurate, Adam Cole argues…

Sterling: hamstrung by the latest round of QE?

With the announcement from the Bank of England on October 6 of a further round of quantitative easing, the consensus view of contributors to FX Week’s currency forecast index is that cable will remain around 1.55 for the next three months, despite being…

The Canadian dollar: to hedge or not to hedge?

The Canadian dollar weakened significantly against the greenback in the last two weeks of September, moving from parity on September 21 to 1.0461 on September 30. Farah Khalique talks to currency strategists about what’s driving the Canadian dollar’s…

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