Pricing
Non-banks drive up Hotspot volumes
JERSEY CITY, NJ - HotspotFX reported a 107.9% rise in average daily volumes to $35.2 billion - double count - in April, versus $16.9 billion last year.
Why aren’t the Greeks using CLS?
A lesson learned from the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy was that, at times of stress, CLS plays a central role in ensuring forex traders are protected. It seems surprising then that only one Greek bank is using the settlement system.
Traders prep for more euro troubles
LONDON - Options markets are pricing in further euro downside risk, despite expectations a multibillion euro bailout package for Greece will be unveiled soon.
Data availability lags behind market growth
TORONTO - Limitations on the availability of market data is one of the biggest challenges to growing buy-side volumes, said speakers at the FX Invest North America congress in Toronto last Tuesday (April 13).
DealHub releases FX liquidity aggregation GUI
LONDON - Two banks are evaluating a foreign exchange liquidity aggregation graphical user interface (GUI) developed by OCL Computers, being marketed broadly by the vendor today, officials have told FX Week.
White-labelling: Why re-invent the wheel?
Christian Bock, managing partner of Consulting for Banking and Brokerage Solutions (CBBS) in Zurich, looks at the benefits of using a white-labelled platform and the issues to consider when choosing one
Ta Chong Bank to implement FinIQ structured products solution
TAIPEI - Ta Chong Bank, Taiwan (TCB) is going live with technology from FinIQ to manage currency-linked investment products sold through its treasury and branch network.
SuperDerivatives builds out exotic options
SuperDerivatives adds to its exotic options offering.
Barclays Capital realigns FX prime brokerage
UK bank outlines ambitions for growth
Buy side resigned to higher pricing
Buy-side traders have emerged as post-crisis neo-realists, with a sense of resignation, and some scarring, in the tone of speakers at the FX Invest Europe congress in Zurich last Tuesday (March 9).
Banks adopt new options-pricing practice
Interbank market builds consensus
GFI upgrades Fenics options pricing platform
Brokers extends options coverage
A time for special FX
Dealers are beginning to think a lot more seriously about credit-adjusting the prices they quote on foreign exchange derivatives. How are they calculating this, and how are clients responding to the move? By John Ferry
FX and DX: valuing the US Dollar Index futures contract
Several theoretical models have been proposed in the 22 years since the DX futures contract was launched. Here, Charles Wright, principal of Alpha Numerics in New York, discusses a numerical approach