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Spotlight on: Neil Record, Record Currency Management

The founder and chair of Record Currency Management talks to Robert Mackenzie Smith about the growth of the firm over the past three decades, as well as the challenges posed by the financial crisis and his shortlisted entry for the Wolfson Economics Prize

Testing euro exit scenarios

London-based think tank Policy Exchange is now judging the entries to the Wolfson Economics Prize, which asked entrants to propose the best way for a country to leave the eurozone. Following the relatively mild impact of Greece’s default earlier this…

Markets brace for stress tests

LONDON – The euro traded firmly ahead of the European bank stress test results last Friday (July 23), despite expectations several banks will fail. But analysts warned the common currency is still a risk asset.

Super-competitive core won’t stop euro losses

The euro’s 'peripheral risk premium' has continued to rise through the bounce in EUR/USD. A super-competitive and rapidly recovering core won’t stop it rising further. Tighter policy in the core raises the deflationary benchmark for the periphery, adding…

On your marks...

One of the foreign exchange market mega-trends in 2010-2020 will be the use of the Swiss franc as a proxy for the old German mark, says Mansoor Mohi-uddin, global FX strategist at UBS in Singapore

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