Algorithmic trading
Pound crashes 8% during early morning trading
Sterling plunged from $1.26 to $1.14 within two minutes, just after 7pm in New York
Perseus to speed up Chicago-Tokyo route
Connectivity firm to deliver round-trip latency below 120 milliseconds, which it says will be the fastest in the world, when improvements are completed in February
Spotlight on Solid FX: the rise of streaming in size
Dutch firm sees 45% growth in demand for its NBLP arm, gaining benefits from its ability to price-in up to $30m clips
BIS figures reflect tectonic shifts in market structure
Decline of headline figures in the survey pose questions over how much the market has changed in three years
EBS to open NDF pool to non-bank players
Trading platform makes high-level decision to give prime brokerage clients access. Timing and details to come
JP Morgan won't use non-bank liquidity providers in internal FX pool for now
The need for control and transparency, and the size of the franchise means the bank has no wish to add external liquidity
75% of buy side to use algos in a couple of years, participants say
Best execution requirements and liquidity conditions will drive adoption, according to a survey by Greenwich Associates
XTX hires in Singapore, joins Broadway liquidity network
Chan Wai Kin joins from Morgan Stanley
Pragma rolls out real-time algo order-tracking system
Clients gain access to the Fix messages of all their parent and child orders
Best Independent Algorithmic Trading Technology Provider: Tradepoint Systems
The transparency provided by the FX algo built by FX people wins over the sell side and regulators
Best Bank Algorithmic Trading Technology Provider: BNP Paribas
Fourth-generation algos provide access to the data the strategy uses during execution for maximum control
Best Trading Technology Vendor: FlexTrade Systems
Control of execution processes across asset classes, coupled with cross-asset TCA, wins over the judges
Brexit: JP Morgan hits records; Citadel picks up market share
Post-referendum winners span both traditional and non-bank liquidity providers
Equinix to double capacity in Europe
The increase follows its acquisition of data-centre company TelecityGroup
Non-bank LPs boosted by TCA developments, study finds
Financial consultancy Greenwich Associates sees counterparty diversification as a strong trend
MahiFX launches buy-side execution tool
MFX Vector and e-FX Engine Room are the latest roll-outs from David Cooney's company
New Change FX rolls out TCA app
It's possible to compare algo performance, says company chief
CFH Clearing and MahiFX partner for MFX Compass distribution
CFH clients will be able to access MFX Compass via the STP platform
Five-year wait for Wall Street's adoption of blockchain
Distributed ledger technology will transform the financial industry, but not for another three to five years
Thomson Reuters to roll out randomisation in June
TR Matching set to launch latency floor almost three years after initial client consultations
Pragma algo to exploit unusually predictable fix trading patterns
Five-minute fixing window created highly readable patterns
Gain's GTX ECN unveils binary data protocols
Clients using the ECN's new GTTP protocol can receive data faster at lower latencies
Regulation will change markets, but slower than expected
But market participants say they are in the early stages of a transformation that could accelerate in the coming years
Algo experts caution against too prescriptive regulation
Such laws can do more harm than good, they say, and prevention of market impact is too high a standard