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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX settlement and risk mitigation solution/Best market data provider – CLS Group
As the largest settlement risk mitigation provider in the FX markets, CLS Group already plans to widen its market-stabilising mission and make settlement safer, more efficient and more cost-effective
FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX post-trade provider – TriOptima
Supplying both multilateral compression and optimisation services to global FX markets, consistent high performance from TriOptima has seen the firm go from strength to strength in challenging times
FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: FX house of the year, Hong Kong and FX house of the year, Singapore
In a challenging year, OCBC’s teams in Hong Kong and Singapore have continued to grow the bank’s franchise, deepen client relationships and drive engagement. We spoke to the global treasury team’s Wee Wei Min, global head of sales and structuring, and…
FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX prime-of-prime – Invast Global
Flexible solutions in a volatile market and providing the overlooked small end of the hedge fund space with liquidity streams has laid the foundation for Invast Global to expand into new ventures
FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX ECN – Euronext Markets Singapore
Efficiency, accuracy and unbeatable execution speeds in Singapore have helped Euronext provide sterling service in a volatile and fragmented market – and even treble spot volumes in Asia trading.
FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX aggregator – smartTrade
Clients of all sizes are constantly searching for better ways to ensure best liquidity, and found a perfect solution in LiquidityFX from smartTrade, which also facilitates smart-order routing and distribution
FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best buy-side FX trading platform – FactSet
The powerful automation capabilities of Portware Enterprise FX, the trading solution from FactSet, are highly sought after by clients eager to manage the increasing scale and complexity of their dealing requirements
FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX analytics provider – First Derivatives
With its Kx Streaming Analytics solution, First Derivatives has put data-driven analytics in the hands of its clients, allowing them to react to data insights instantly and make smarter business decisions
Time to reverse the fragmentation of FX liquidity
Vikram Srinivasan, head of spot product at 360T, argues that using technology to reverse the trend of liquidity fragmentation in FX will ultimately benefit market participants
e-FX Awards 2020: Best ECN/MDP for forwards/swaps and best market data provider – 360T
360T comes into its own in the quest to electronify the FX swaps space
e-FX Awards 2020: Best prime-of-prime broker and best retail FX platform – Saxo Bank
Saxo Bank’s extensive financial instrument offering and unrivalled access to the world’s markets attracted multitudes of professional traders to the prime-of-prime and retail broker in the tumultuous first half of 2020
e-FX Awards 2020: Best liquidity aggregator/connectivity service – Avelacom
Connectivity and IT infrastructure provider Avelacom strives to optimise low-latency connectivity between trading hubs to match the leaps made by electronic trading in FX markets in the first half of 2020
e-FX Awards 2020: Best prime broker – BNP Paribas
European bank BNP Paribas offers stability and partnership in FX prime brokerage, doubling revenues and tripling the volumes it handles over the past 18 months
e-FX Awards 2020: Best trading software for FX – FactSet
Data and technology solutions provider FactSet offers a data-driven approach to automated trading, propelling asset management clients towards automated trade executions based on real-time analytics – a scenario the firm’s head of FX trading services,…
The importance of minimising market impact
Market impact is a nuanced subject – one industry veterans are well aware of. But, with fundamental changes over the past decade shifting how FX markets function, a swath of new service, technology and liquidity providers has emerged. David Fineberg,…
How did markets fare with volatility in the new liquidity landscape?
By all accounts, markets have been relatively subdued for the past few years. Simon Campbell, group head of trading at CMC Markets, discusses how – while there have been occasional flurries of volatility around Brexit, the US elections and the trans…
Will a regulatory shake-up see market quality improve?
Richard Elston, head of CMC Institutional, talks to FX Week about how regulatory change is manifesting itself in 2020 and why this will leave the entire industry in a stronger position for the future.
Accessing liquidity in emerging market currencies
HSBC explains the importance to global investors of accessing local expertise to mitigate FX market risk and execution costs.
Smarter trading in a fragmented world
FX Week recently hosted a webinar in partnership with Refinitiv to ask FX industry leaders to discuss geopolitical challenges, market changes and developments, and evolving technologies, and how they have shaped FX markets in Asia.
Building a hedge fund to challenge legacy players
Ross Newell, business development manager at CMC Institutional, discusses some of the challenges faced by those looking to formalise their independent FX trading activities into a structured fund, and why the demands of the investors should never be…
Rising initial margin costs tilts the balance in favour of clearing
As international standard-setters have extended the implementation period of the lowest threshold for the uncleared margin rules (UMR) to 2021, Kahyang Chong, head of ForexClear product, Europe, the Middle East and Africa at LCH, explores the options…