Structured products

City Index seeks a retail FX solution

City Index's acquisition of online foreign exchange trading company FX Solutions last Wednesday (February 6) marks a significant push by the company to gain traction in the global retail FX market, particularly given the price!

Bonuses disappoint

LONDON & NEW YORK - Banks are looking out for up-and-coming foreign exchange sales and trading stars in this year's bonus round, according to a survey of leading recruitment specialists in the FX industry.

Three simple steps towards risk immunisation

Société Générale - there but for the grace of God? Justyn Trenner and David Poole, principals of client strategy firm ClientKnowledge in London, offer a short check-list of factors to protect against a similar occurrence

Seeking a sterling collapse

By Pete Luxton, global markets adviser, and Dave Willmer, foreign exchange options market strategist, at Informa Global Markets in London

UBS launches Greenhouse Index

LONDON - UBS is set to launch UBS Greenhouse Index (UBS-GHI), a tradable investment benchmark tracking a combination of weather futures and greenhouse gas emissions credits, on January 23.

How to prepare for reduced volatility

In the aftermath of credit-related market turmoil, Neil Mellor, currency strategist at The Bank of New York Mellon in London, suggests a way to prepare for a return to more historically typical levels of volatility

Saxo and JDFX offer risk management online

COPENHAGEN & ZURICH – Saxo Bank and Zurich-based foreign exchange trading company JDFX are today releasing Meta RMS, a risk management software package within JDFX’s online trading front end, MetaTrader.

Carry strategies are thriving in Asia

SINGAPORE - Carry models have proliferated in Asia as alpha-generating strategies over the past four years, according to Thomas Harr, senior FX strategist at Standard Chartered in Singapore.

Asian corporates hungry for new FX products

SINGAPORE - Asian corporates typically have a bigger appetite for new and innovative structured FX products than their European counterparts, according to Selene Chong, head of FX structuring at HSBC in Hong Kong, speaking at the FX Week Asia congress in…

Market innovation threatens platforms

SINGAPORE - Growth in the Asian FX market is leading to big operational changes in the way buy- and sell-side institutions do business, according to Justyn Trenner, chief executive at market research company ClientKnowledge.

Is the dollar dross?

Pete Luxton, global markets adviser, and Shant Movsesian, FX options manager, at Informa Global Markets in London, seek ways to benefit from the flagging US dollar

Global FX trading up 71%

BASEL - The huge growth in daily turnover in the global foreign exchange market, revealed in the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) triennial foreign exchange survey last week, continues to solidify FX as an asset class.

Global FX trading up 71%

BASEL - The huge growth in daily turnover in the global foreign exchange market, revealed in the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) triennial foreign exchange survey last week, continues to solidify FX as an asset class.

CLS must evolve, or face competition

As CLS enters its sixth year of operations, the global settlement system continues to be at the centre of much debate. Although the fallout from the credit crisis has underscored the benefits of a system that ensures all legs of a transaction are settled…

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