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Calendar Of Events FX Week 10/12/90
October 10-12--Futures and Options Expo ‘90 sponsored by the Futures Industry Association; Chicago.
October 16-18--Foreign Exchange Markets sponsored by the Euromoney Institute of Finance; New York (212) 941-5880.
October 18--German Bundesbank Meeting
October 22--Average Rate Currency/Commodities Options seminar sponsored by Financial Engineering Associates, Inc.; New York (415) 548-6200.
October 23-24--Strategies for Managing Foreign Exchange Risk sponsored by
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Tackling rising FX settlement risk with DLT
Distributed ledger technology provides a remarkable opportunity to mitigate the rising settlement risk within the FX industry, explains Alex Knight, head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Baton Systems.
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan go live with CLSNow
Unlike CLS’s main settlement tool, CLSNow lets banks settle FX positions on the same day
State Street provides CLSSettlement to Japanese pension fund
Unnamed Japan-based pension fund is part of pilot to mitigate pension funds’ FX trading risks
Nomura’s asset manager extends CLSSettlement to Japanese funds
First local asset manager to provide access in sign of success for buy-side adoption push
CLS: mitigating settlement risk is crucial as volatility rises in 2019
Geopolitical factors expected to drive markets this year
CLS settlement will migrate to new platform in 2020
The infrastructure provider will launch the new venue based on its own technology next year, with service migration planned for May 2020
CLS onboards Japanese funds
Japan-domiciled funds gain access to settlement through CLS as third-party participants for first time
Banco Monex becomes first Mexican member of CLS
The bank is the only CLS settlement member in one of Latin America’s largest FX trading centres
