Dodd-Frank Act
Best bank post-trade services: UBS
UBS wins the post-trade services award after investing heavily in CRM tools and prime brokerage over the past year as part of its preparation for new regulations
FX Week USA 2011: Delegates talk regulation and technology
Farah Khalique talks to delegates and presenters at FX Week USA about the regulatory and technology trends driving FX markets in 2011
FX Invest: Deeper markets, broader opportunities
The foreign exchange industry could be set for a shake-up. But with all things new come great opportunities.
FX Invest: Implications for collateralisation under new CCP model
Saima Farooqi looks at the wave of upcoming regulations relating to central counterparty clearing, and what it means for collateral management
FX Invest: Overlay Asset Management sticks with emerging markets
Overlay Asset Management’s Helie D’Hautefort talks to FX Invest about his firm's emerging markets strategies
FX Invest: Rise of the super-Sefs
The Dodd-Frank Act created a multitude of would-be swap execution facilities (Sefs) – trading platforms that will aggregate dealer liquidity. Now, dealers want to hoover up the Sefs by building their own aggregation services, but it’s a strategy that…
Further liquidity fragmentation in FX predicted
Market-damaging behaviour should be controlled, but separation or elimination of high-frequency trading would be damaging to the market’s equilibrium, ClientKnowledge argues in research published today
Thomson Reuters reveals new timeline for Sef compliance
Vendor's conversational dealing platform will be Sef-compliant and subject to a new global rulebook by mid-2012, Thomson Reuters announces today
FXCM and SuperDerivatives to launch options platform within days
Deal-X platform will launch with three liquidity providers on July 14, to be followed soon after by SurfacExchange's Surface Wave venture
JP Morgan’s Choussy prepares bank for FX clearing
Newly appointed global head of FX clearing explains how he is preparing for the advent of mandatory central clearing requirements for some FX contracts
White labelling preferable in retail FX, says Aite Group
White-label solutions will reduce tech spend for new entrants, says senior analyst Javier Paz
Spotlight on: Dan O’Sullivan, Société Générale
The French bank’s co-head of global FX trading talks to Farah Khalique about the impact of recent eurodollar volatility on banks and investors, and the practical challenges of implementing new regulatory requirements
Spotlight on: Steven Maijoor, Esma
The European Securities and Markets Authority is set to hold considerable influence over the implementation of the EU’s forthcoming derivatives regulation, and will decide whether foreign exchange swaps and forwards should be subject to mandatory central…
Deutsche's Autobahn spin-off plan shelved
Dodd-Frank caused Deutsche to look at reinventing its Autobahn platform as a Sef – but dealers now see a future for their platforms as price aggregators