Standard Chartered

HSBC ahead of the game with EM-to-EM focus

HSBC has maintained its lead in emerging market (EM) currencies by adapting its business to focus on the rise in trade between emerging market economies. But the trend sees EM-focused Standard Chartered hot on its heels.

StanChart takes Solace for FX data messaging

Standard Chartered has rolled out hardware-based messaging vendor Solace Systems’ 3260 message routers, to provide low-latency data distribution between the bank’s offices to support its new global FX trading platform.

Standard Chartered boosts Mena coverage

DUBAI – Standard Chartered has made five hires in Dubai as part of plans to boost its fixed-income, currencies and commodities business (FICC) in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena).

Barnes bows out of RBS

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has suffered a double blow with the departure of its global head of FX, Mark Barnes, in London and Christiane Mandell, head of RBS' Latin American businesses in Mexico and Brazil, based in Stamford, Connecticut.

Banks post sluggish first-half results

LONDON & ZURICH - UK banks followed regional peers by reporting a sharp year-on-year drop in first-half revenues from fixed-income and currencies businesses, which were marred by a falloff in volatility and a retreat from risk.

Global forex growth on the up

GLOBAL - Global foreign exchange growth increased this year from October 2009, as investor confidence in the FX market has returned following the global financial crisis, despite concerns over the eurozone.

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