Standard Bank
Winners of the FX Week 2019 Best Banks Awards
The awards acknowledge excellence in foreign exchange
Best Bank Awards: Standard Bank
Standard Bank is voted Best bank for South African rand/African currencies excluding ZAR at the 2019 FX Week Best Bank Awards
Jason Katz: ‘I wasn’t ready to admit what I had done’
Taking the witness stand, former trader admits he was initially untruthful to DoJ
Cummins: ‘I didn’t surrender all the details’
Key witness in criminal case against Aiyer admits lying after agreement that his words won’t be used against him at a subsequent trial
Best Banks Awards: Standard Bank
Standard Bank has been voted the winner of the Best Bank for South African Rand and Best Bank for African Currencies excluding ZAR at the 2018 FX Week Best Banks Awards
Katz’s sentencing adjourned until January
Jason Katz is the first trader to admit to wrongdoing
Wood trades Edgewater for Mirexa
Wood is a veteran EM currency specialist who began his career at Standard Bank in South Africa
Nex Group’s Knott untangles banks’ trade challenges
Post-trade business reorganises with a focus on cost cutting and simplification
Standard Bank looks to remain the go-to bank in Africa
Standard Bank wins Best Bank for the South African Rand and African Currencies at the 2016 FX Week Awards
Icap appoints Knott as CEO of post-trade risk
She will report to Michael Spencer in London
Standard Bank bags rand award for second year
Standard Bank triumphs as the best bank for the South African rand for the second year running. Now the firm has continental Africa in its sights
Standard Bank scoops inaugural rand award
A focus on market-making into as many liquidity pools as possible has won Standard Bank recognition as best bank for the South African rand
Footprint in Africa leads to diverse liquidity, says Standard Bank's Richard de Roos
Richard de Roos, head of FX at Standard Bank, talks about the South African bank's new single-dealer platform and the challenges of predicting currency trends in sub-Saharan Africa
Banks vie for position in taking EM currencies electronic
Electronic trading is beginning to take off for emerging market currencies as banks race to meet client demand for a means of trading EMFX electronically. What unique challenges exist when it comes to e-FX in emerging markets? Miriam Siers reports
CLS faces uphill battle to meet currency expansion targets
FX settlement system aims to add another 17 currencies within 10 years, but some caution that CLS membership doesn't make economic sense for certain emerging market currencies
Sub-Saharan African currencies gain traction
The search for yield in currency markets is leading investors into new emerging market currencies in sub-Saharan Africa, according to banks focused on the region
Standard Bank continues e-commerce build with Caplin Trader
The implementation of a new single-dealer platform at Standard Bank will initially cover FX and precious metals, across spot, forwards, swaps and orders
Trading places, June 18, 2011
New appointments at Otkritie and Commerzbank, while SurfacExchange strategy head departs
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