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smartTrade eyes role as direct streaming linchpin
Vendor plans to tap growing demand for direct API trading solutions across asset classes
ISITC’s Paul Fullam on the ‘anxiety’ over T+1 in Europe
Trade processing chair blames budget constraints, testing and unease over operational risk ahead of settlement move
JP Morgan gives corporates an FX blockchain boost
Kinexys digital platform speeds cross-currency, cross-entity client payments
How JPM AM swapped platforms for pipes
Asset manager wanted to cut FX venues – and their fees – out of dealer relationships. Now, it only trades direct
Inside Safran’s $54bn FX options book
French aircraft parts supplier emerges as key exotics player
Inside Citi’s FX refresh
Flavio Figueiredo revelas how the bank revitalised its options and e-trading units – and finally tackled SA-CCR
Morgan Stanley sees the elephants in the room
Fixed income co-head Jakob Horder argues hedge fund crowding means macro markets have fatter tails; eyes more FX hedging to come
How Amundi’s options strategy profited from dollar slump
French asset manager grabbed euro call options at low prices in a tactical pivot for its FX absolute return fund
Barclays braces for a macro storm
Client FX hedging signals helped bank navigate April’s US rates volatility
Jive Investments quicksteps towards hedged returns
Brazilian fund manager uses combo of options and forwards to push down hedging costs compared with plain NDF strategy
Deutsche Bank takes AutobahnFX on the open road
Proprietary trading platform sets out new workflow-based approach to collaborating with venues
New FX swap matching platform aims to bridge voice and e-trading
FXswapX seeks to electronify “the last bastion of voice trading” in the interdealer market
Citi rolls out revamped SDP in emerging markets
Unified API will boost electronic pricing and automation for restricted currencies, says bank
LCH expects to boost deliverable FX clearing with new adds
Onboarding of dealers and link-up with CLS could swell interbank deliverable FX clearing volumes
BofA’s e-FX rebuild pulls it closer to rivals
Deploying its equities tech stack, bank seeks to get ahead with its algo and e-FX offerings
FX data champion outlines transparency push
Stuart Simmons, new head of GFXC working group, wants trading platforms to come clean on how they use client data
Skylight finds an opening in consensus pricing
Service provider claims key factors differentiate its own offer from the market leader’s
FXSpotStream looks to growth products beyond spot
New chief exec Jeff Ward highlights NDFs and FX swaps as next boom area for the venue
Natixis turns on the taps in flow trading
French bank boosts flow business, balancing structured solutions capabilities
Hidden Road ready for rush hour after FCM approval
Prime broker is trading “trillions” of notional with “a few hundred” counterparties in FX and crypto
Inside BGC’s quiet move into agency broking
The interdealer broker’s Caventor Capital arm is pitching a hands-on service for hedge funds, filling what it sees as a gap left by large banks