Trading

• Our take

A gradual return from shorts to suits

Market moved to home-working for resilience – it may linger for convenience

• 21 May 2020

• Trading

Investors trade the drama out of the crisis

How LGIM, Axa IM, Manulife and other buy-siders tackled the toughest markets since 2008

• 13 May 2020

• Tech and data

Assessing execution quality and slippage in volatile times

Market participants must focus on how their evaluated execution costs vary in different market regimes, writes Tradefeedr’s Alexei Jiltsov

• 07 May 2020

• Trading

Forwards spreads fall but won’t hit January levels, say traders

While bid/offers have shrunk since March’s highs, dealers expect them to remain elevated

• 06 May 2020

• Trading

NDF access will help tame rupee volatility, say dealers

Lifting of restrictions stopping Indian banks trading rupee NDFs allows RBI to intervene offshore

• 30 Apr 2020

• Tech and data

FX options, NDFs trading slows as Covid fears ease

Analysis of transaction data shows lower notional volumes and tighter spreads for most currency pairs

• 28 Apr 2020

• Trading

El-Erian on Covid-19 policy risks and ‘zombie’ markets

Former Pimco chief says Fed has gone too far, market function rules needed and chance opens for shared policy load

• 16 Apr 2020

• Trading

Applying Mifid to spot FX could backfire, warns MEP

EC would need to make "very compelling case" to draw spot market into wider regime, says Ferber

• 09 Apr 2020

• Tech and data

Algo choice: how to implement a market impact/volatility trade-off

Quantifying how macroeconomic announcements affect market reaction is key to deploying the right FX algo, writes Alexei Jiltsov of Tradefeedr

• 08 Apr 2020

• Tech and data

Singapore engine push yet to win over all LPs

JP became latest to improve local pricing capability on April 1, but other LPs are sceptical

• 07 Apr 2020

• Trading

Philippines traders shrug off mid-month jitters from Covid shutdown

March’s pricing blip was a tremble, not a quake, in a market used to disruption from natural disasters

• 03 Apr 2020

• Trading

FX vol revived by Covid-19 – but for how long?

Traders split on whether virus impact or central bank responses will prove most powerful

• 30 Mar 2020

• Tech and data

FX data shows hold, reject divide in G10 vs the rest

Use of analytics can help reduce last look and improve FX Code adherence, says EBS executive

• 24 Mar 2020

• Trading

In choppy FX markets, algos buck expectations

Goldman, Nomura and others report increased volumes, although some clients revert to principal quotes

• 23 Mar 2020

• Tech and data

Coronavirus jolts FX options market

Analysis of transaction data shows record notional volumes for some G10 pairs

• 19 Mar 2020

• Regulation

Spot FX could be dragged into Mifid II

EC tells FX Markets it is studying Australian-style approach to regulating currency trading

• 11 Mar 2020

• Tech and data

Asia keener to adopt mobile FX trading – BidFX

Fintech firm updates mobile app to offer more features; security concerns represent major development challenges

• 13 Feb 2020

• Trading

FX HedgePool goes live with three buy-side firms

Two US buy-siders trade with European firm on peer-to-peer utility created for them to source liquidity from each other

• 04 Feb 2020

• Trading

PBoC extends market closure as coronavirus spreads rapidly

Chinese central bank extends interbank markets closure and vows to maintain ample liquidity

• 29 Jan 2020

• Regulation

Will a regulatory shake-up see market quality improve?

Richard Elston, head of CMC Institutional, talks to FX Week about how regulatory change is manifesting itself in 2020 and why this will leave the entire industry in a stronger position for the future.

• 27 Jan 2020

• Foreign Exchange

Accessing liquidity in emerging market currencies

HSBC explains the importance to global investors of accessing local expertise to mitigate FX market risk and execution costs.

• 13 Jan 2020

• Trading

BNP Paribas to launch e-FX pricing engine in Singapore 

BNPP is latest bank to set up Singapore pricing engine; readies Cortex Live launch with AI and data tools

• 06 Jan 2020

• Technology

Banks look to virtual data warehouses to unify trading desks

Adding a virtual layer could help take the burden off the traditional data warehouse

• 03 Jan 2020

• Wholesale

JP Morgan: beating lower margins, flat volumes and the competition

Foresees collaboration with clients and technology providers on FX tech infrastructure, and working with regional players

• 24 Dec 2019