Foreign exchange

CME prepares to handle increased trading volume

NEW YORK – The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) plans to add additional servers and lanes to handle increased exchange-traded volume, according to a presentation on technology bottlenecks in the global FX market at the FX Week USA conference in New York…

Surveying our changing landscape

The e-FX awards celebrate best practice and innovation in the forex market. The increasingly demanding needs of clients from the sell-side to the buy-side have meant technological developments continue at full throttle. This year was no exception. In…

Deutsche scales back on FXMS

LONDON & CHICAGO – Deutsche Bank has reduced its trading volumes on FXMarketSpace, the Reuters and Chicago Mercantile Exchange joint-venture platform. The decision lies behind a sharp fall in the volumes traded on FXMarketSpace in June, informed sources…

Deutsche deepens cross- border presence

ISTANBUL – Deutsche Bank has bought the institutional cross-border custody unit of Istanbul-based Türkiye Garanti Bankasi (Garanti Bank), in a deal rumoured to be worth $115 million.

Singapore hub for Julius Baer

SINGAPORE – Swiss bank Julius Baer is making its Singapore location its South-east Asia hub after being granted a licence to open a wholesale banking branch in the city sate.

Margin trading platform race gathers pace

The race to launch a margin trading platform continues to gather pace, with at least two further banks in the process of signing deals with online trading companies to launch retail platforms.

Banks sign up to Bloomberg NDFs

NEW YORK – HSBC, Lehman Brothers, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered have committed to offering liquidity in non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) over the Bloomberg FX Dealing platform.

Deutsche scales back on FXMS

LONDON & CHICAGO – Deutsche Bank has reduced its trading volumes on FXMarketSpace, the Reuters and Chicago Mercantile Exchange joint-venture platform. The decision lies behind a sharp fall in the volumes traded on FXMarketSpace in June, informed sources…

List of e-FX Awards finalists drawn up

The shortlist for the FX Week e-FX Awards has been decided. This year we received an unprecedented number of submissions, each of a high degree of quality, demonstrating the increasingly competitive landscape for e-FX.

F&C gathers assets for FX volatility hedge fund

LONDON – F&C Alternative Investments has begun raising funds for its F&C Garnet Fund, a hedge fund targeting absolute returns by investing and trading in FX volatility and forward rate bias (FRB). The move indicates the growing prominence of volatility…

Senior management shifts for ANZ FX sales

LONDON – ANZ has promoted David Wilkinson to a newly created role of head of currency and currency option trading for Europe and America. Wilkinson will be responsible for overseeing FX and FX options trading at the bank and will relocate from

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