Artificial intelligence
From pink tickets to Python: Toby Baker on 40 years in FX
T Rowe Price’s departing FX head reflects on the pain points and keys to success for a modern buy-side trading desk
More interdealer e-trading needed to support FX swap streaming
FX Markets Europe: Dealers say primary venues must gain more traction to allow further electronification on client side
SNB researchers test LLM-based FX trading strategy
Meta’s Llama 3.1 comes out top predicting G10 currency sentiment based on news articles
Bank FX market-makers ramp up AI usage
Barclays applies tech to predictions, while HSBC and ING look at pricing accuracy
Banks seek to advance predictive pricing models
AI and machine learning-based tools could give FX desks the power to forecast currency movements
For AI’s magic hammer, every problem becomes a nail
Risk.net survey finds banks embracing a twin-track approach to AI in the front office: productivity tools today; transformation tomorrow
Bloomberg offers auto-RFQ chat feed – but banks want a bigger prize
Traders hope for unfettered access to IB chat so they can build their own AI-enhanced trading tools
Is AI a double-edged sword?
How can firms address – and safeguard themselves from – potential execution algorithm risks, asks SGX’s Trivedi
BNPP ups efforts to weed out skew sniffers
French bank deploys skew sensitivity algo to help identify predatory behaviour
OMS wars: a new hope for the future
While Jedi powers may be needed to unpick the complexities of some order management workflows, but the dark side of these systems can be defeated by new enhanced solutions
Best trading technology for FX: smartTrade Technologies
As sell-side market participants more readily accept the integration of machine learning and AI into their processes, smartTrade Technologies unveils advanced services and modules that provide clients with powerful tools to maximise trading efficiency
FX automation plans focus on predictive analytics – panel
Panellists suggest banks could explore AI tools for foreign exchange pricing
Banks, vendors mine AI for corporate FX hedging
New machine learning algos can help corporate clients adjust hedging ratios, but tech’s effectiveness is limited by data quality, experts caution
Outlook for e-FX: opportunities and risks for banks
As electronification spreads into new areas of FX trading, banks are under pressure to digitise more of their offerings to remain competitive. The race is now on to automate pricing, trading and hedging in areas such as non-deliverable forwards, swaps…
Bloomberg deploys new chatbot tool to Terminal
Offering allows users to surface data and notifications from internal systems without leaving Instant Bloomberg chatrooms
JP Morgan pulls plug on deep learning model for FX algos
FX Markets USA: Bank turns to less complex models that are easier to explain to clients
Technology trends in capital markets: transforming the sell-side FX front office
The capital markets landscape is witnessing a technological revolution – a wave transforming the sell-side FX front office. Firms such as smartTrade Technologies are at the forefront of this transformation, leveraging technologies such as artificial…
Best connectivity, hosting and co‑location service: smartTrade Technologies
As regional market participants have upmarketed their workflows, smartTrade Technologies has reinforced its offering with more advanced and bespoke services and modules, incorporating such tools as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in…
RBC eyes AI to bolster FX and rates algos
Canadian bank plans to take deep reinforcement learning tech from equities to fixed income and currencies
Swift gears up for innovation around digital currencies
Head of innovation at global payments messaging provider is focused on CBDCs, tokenised securities and artificial intelligence
Is FX catching up with Silicon Valley?
The industry is taking a leaf out of the Silicon Valley playbook to leverage automation, AI and big data, write BNP Paribas execs