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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best bank for FX algos, forwards and swaps, and Europe – BNP Paribas

Despite the uncertainty wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, BNP Paribas‘ history of sensible decisions has allowed it to thrive among the chaos through initiatives such as its interactive algo trading assistant Alix, which allows users to speak and receive…

15 Feb 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best broker for NDFs and Best broker for spot – EBS

With the events of 2020 putting the FX market through opposing poles of extreme volatility, EBS has stood out from the crowd, offering clients the abliity to execute trades efficiently under unprecedented and extremely challenging circumstances

27 Jan 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: Best prime-of-prime house – Saxo Bank

Amid a year of uncertainty brought about by Covid-19, many professional traders turned to Saxo Bank – and its more than 40,000 financial instruments – to take advantage of the breadth of its offering

26 Jan 2021

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best execution algorithm provider – Morgan Stanley

Facing evolving demands in a world struck by the Covid‑19 pandemic, Morgan Stanley has adapted to trends and readied a new non-deliverable forward product, while its algo product suite has outshone its peers

18 Jan 2021

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e-FX Awards 2020: Best liquidity provider for corporates; Best liquidity provider for options; and Best single dealer platform – Citi

While 2020 presented the FX industry with unprecedented challenges, technology came to the fore in a remarkable manner to smooth the transition towards a remote working environment

04 Jan 2021

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FX Markets Best Banks Awards 2020: The winners

Citi takes 12 categories, including best bank for FX; HSBC follows with six wins

11 Dec 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: Best FX exchange – Singapore Exchange

High volatility and liquidity in FX markets caused soaring demand for risk management and record trading volumes when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. KC Lam, head of rates and FX at Singapore Exchange, describes how the firm avoided disruption as the…

18 Nov 2020

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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

17 Nov 2020

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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

17 Nov 2020

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FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: The winners

Citi lands four wins in this year’s awards

12 Nov 2020

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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

11 Nov 2020

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e-FX Awards 2020: Best compression/optimisation service for FX – TriOptima

Reducing the cost of business through capital efficiency

29 Oct 2020

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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

07 Oct 2020

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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

06 Oct 2020

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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

25 Sep 2020

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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

25 Sep 2020

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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,…