Structured products

How Saxo gained the Midas touch

Lars Seier Christensen and Kim Fournais have seen their business plan unfold since 1992 from FX broking boutique to billion dollar internet bank, reports Rob Shepherd

Conference vendor news

This year's New York event has more vendors than ever. Here we present a quick guide to what some of them will be promoting

Creating an algorithmic safeguard

Stuart Crooks, vice-president, sales for FlexFX in London, points to algorithmic trading as a way to keep up with the increasing speed at which the market moves

E-trading for Calyon Financial

PARIS – Calyon Financial, the brokerage arm of French bank Calyon, last week launched an online forex trading platform called Calyon Financial FX Edge.

Retail rollout for major banks

GLOBAL – A number of banks are launching retail FX offerings this year as they see growing opportunities for attracting flow from this market.

Diversifying through Africa

African basket options are a good vehicle for picking up yield and diversifying away risk, says Marios Maratheftis , FX strategist at Standard Charterd Bank in London

Retail rollout for major banks

GLOBAL – A number of banks are launching retail FX offerings this year as they see growing opportunities for attracting flow from this market.

Cliquet options for the longer view

Cliquet options embedded in a zero coupon structured product can be used to take advantage of a medium- to long-term view, suggests Jeffrey Todd Lins, director, quantitative analysis at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen

Lava moves into interbank FX space

NEW YORK – Citigroup subsidiary, Lava Trading has confirmed plans to launch a new interbank forex trading system this year. The move makes it the first of a number of platforms rumoured to be taking the plunge into the space.

A changing interbank landscape

The decision by the world's largest interdealer broker, Icap, to acquire spot FX broker EBS bears significant implications for the current landscape of the FX industry.

China is not the only egg in the basket

Reuters' deal with Union Bank of India demonstrates that there is a wealth of opportunity in the sub-continent for banks looking to drive forex returns in emerging markets.

There are no options benchmarks

The following is a case study of option volumes with delayed delivery, by Nasir Afaf, global head FX options, Commerzbank Corporates & Markets in London

COESfx enhances online platform

PLAINVIEW, NEW YORK – Electronic communication network (ECN) COESfx has enhanced its platform by adding expanded trading features and a streaming news feed for its retail and institutional investors.

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