United States (US)
Iosco delays pre-hedging consultation to November
Review into controversial practice splits industry
Bitcoin ETFs drive demand for borrowing in crypto markets
Mismatch between cash and crypto settlement cycles creates pre-funding challenge
Traders flipped long yen vol ahead of global market rout
Hedge funds and real money bought long yen volatility in the run-up to Monday’s turmoil
Barclays global head of eFX trading joins FMX
Shterenberg previously held senior algo execution and G10 FX trading roles
Senior G10 trader Agaisse leaves Barclays
Agaisse previously held top FX spot roles at Deutsche Bank, Mizuho and UBS
Franklin Templeton steps back into FX options
Former biggest user of the instrument among US mutual funds returns with $7.6bn of USD/JPY strategies
Can Citi’s XVA desk help solve risk data failings?
Resolution plan reviews exposed material limitations in banks’ ability to unwind derivatives
What T+1 risk? Dealers shake off FX concerns
Predictions of increased settlement risk and later-in-the-day trading have yet to materialise
Morgan Stanley shoots into FX options dealer top spot
Counterparty Radar: US mutual funds added $11.1 billion in new positions in Q1
Pimco doubles down on FX forwards trades in Q1
Counterparty Radar: Pimco accounted for nearly 60% of all notionals added by mutual funds
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BNPP and BofA top this year’s FX Markets Dealer Rankings
Both banks prospered with US mutual funds, while Morgan Stanley remained top counterparty for life insurers
Isda pushes to ‘decouple’ Simm calibration from model changes
Emir 3.0 prompts effort to separate risk-weight revisions from methodology updates
Europe’s FXPBs take advantage of margin rule carve-out
Some large FX options users have switched to dealers capitalising on regulatory mismatch
Banks and market-makers back BGC’s FMX
Group including BofA, Citi and Goldman buy 26% stake in spot FX, UST and futures trading business
FX dealers face end-of-day trading stress from T+1 shift
Experts say switch to using overnight swaps could be “problematic” and lead to wider spreads
Morgan Stanley back on top for US insurer FX forwards
Counterparty Radar: Bank added $1.7bn with Mass Mutual in Q4 to overtake Citi as biggest dealer
Pimco’s cuts to FX forwards positions hit dealers in Q4
Counterparty Radar: State Street takes top spot among dealers as BNP Paribas slides to fourth
European funds face upsurge in settlement risk after T+1
Trade body Efama finds up to 40% of daily FX flows may have to settle outside protection of CLS
JP Morgan leads US banks’ FX trading revenues
Only two dealers recorded growth last year as Goldman Sachs reports 75% drop
US dealers slam capital hit on clearing for unreal CVA risk
Fed would diverge from Basel standards by imposing CVA capital on client-cleared trades
FX options traders rethink vol drivers amid macro uncertainty
Market-makers believe more and more events will influence options pricing as political risk bubbles up during 2024
As T+1 looms, non-US firms consider out-of-hours trading
Pruned settlement cycle forces foreign buy-siders to explore automating the FX leg of securities trades
Trend following struggles to return to vogue
Macro outlook for trend appears to be favourable, but 2023’s performance flop gives would-be investors pause for thought