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Best e-FX platform for corporates: Absa Capital
South African investment bank Absa Capital last year white-labelled Barclays technology to develop the Pace single-bank FX platform, which wins this new category in the e-FX awards
FX Week USA: Niche services rather than volume set to dominate FX
Conference speakers discuss the changing nature of the foreign exchange market, and agree successful providers in future are likely to be those that can offer a range of niche services rather than those with the highest volumes
Saxo targets new traders with ForexTrading.com
Danish bank says it wants to cater for 'more self-driven' clients
JSE to launch exotic can-do currency options
Move follows the successful launch of any-day expiry options in February
Gain charts breakdown between inverse dollar and commodities correlations
Gain Capital topped this week’s one-month currency forecast rankings by viewing the US dollar as oversold in the run-up to the Federal Reserve’s announcement of a second round of quantitative easing (QE2) at the start of November.
ClientKnowledge wins over Standard Bank with LMS
South African bank Standard Bank went live with ClientKnowledge’s liquidity management system (LMS) for its FX spot business in August, it announced last week.
Forex booms across major platforms
Electronic brokers reported record-breaking trading volumes in October, reflecting a continued upward trend in FX and an interest in commodity currencies.
Emerging markets will fight the flow of capital
Bhanu Baweja, emerging markets strategist at UBS in London, looks at which emerging markets are heading towards capital controls
Global growth slows and assets shift
The hunt for yield is an increasingly important driver of FX, says Callum Henderson, global head of FX research at Standard Chartered in Singapore
Standard Bank targets retail FX
JOHANNESBURG - Standard Bank is expanding its electronic product range with the launch of a retail forex trading platform white-labelled from New York-based retail trading company Gain Capital last Thursday (June 10).
ETF Securities diversifies into EM
Emerging market currencies added to ETF's products
Icap moves into new frontier
Launch of Kenyan shilling trading on EBS Spot is first frontier African currency on that platform
The search for yield
Investment flows are returning to emerging markets as investors scour the globe for yield, says , senior currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York
Adapt or fail
Since October last year, extreme movements in South Africa's foreign exchange rate have caused offshore hedge funds to exit the market, while dealers have been reluctant to take on risk. Those that remain active have had to adapt their behaviour. By Mark…