Standard Chartered

Spotlight on: Nick Beecroft, Saxo Bank

Saxo’s newly appointed UK chairman and FX industry veteran Nick Beecroft talks to Robert Mackenzie Smith about his priorities in seeking to grow the Danish bank’s presence in the UK, as well as the challenges facing the FX market

Why the Q1 risk rally was a glass half empty

Following a risk rally in foreign exchange markets during the first quarter, several of the positive drivers of that rally have now dissipated. Looking ahead to the rest of the year, Callum Henderson explains why investors should continue to short…

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

Tracking the effects of QE on cable

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Wells Fargo and Standard Chartered take top position for GBP/USD forecasts through accurate analysis of the effects of central bank policies on the two currencies

Exploring relative value

A rebound in risk assets in late October appears to have been short-lived and the foreign exchange market continues to be affected by lower-then-expected growth and a swinging pendulum between risk-on and risk-off. Callum Henderson argues relative value…

A new safe haven?

As G-7 economies start to look more volatile than some emerging markets, Nikki Marmery investigates whether the new rash of emerging markets indexes could offer some respite

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