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After 30 years, we’ve revamped FX Week – here’s why

Readers have been asking for more exclusive content and more insight. FX Markets will deliver it

• 21 Feb 2020

• Trading

First SOFR versus CORRA cross-currency swap hits market

JP Morgan and National Bank of Canada extend SOFR cross-currency trading into Canadian market

• 21 Feb 2020

• Trading

Vanguard takes the P2P plunge

Interview: Andy Maack seeks to lower costs and dealer dependence via buy-side matching

• 19 Feb 2020

• Trading

Morgan Stanley FX loss leaves ill-feeling, questions in wake

Options traders saw odd quotes by US bank months before losses were publicised

• 16 Feb 2020

• Trading

Investment Association calls for standardisation of FX reject codes

The 13 new high-level categories will allow rejection causes to be remedied quicker

• 05 Feb 2020

• Tech and data

Average reported daily UK FX turnover hits record high

Daily turnover of $2,881bn in October 2019, up 2% from previous high of $2,821bn in April

• 04 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 injects 1.2 trillion yuan as markets plunge

Chinese central bank eases to support economy as coronavirus spreads; Q1 GDP growth could drop to 4%

• 04 Feb 2020

• Trading

Spot volumes on platforms resumed downward trend in 2019

But an uptick was seen in FX swaps and forwards submitted for settlement

• 03 Feb 2020

• Foreign Exchange

FX Week February 3 2020 digital download (exclusive to FX Week Corporate subscribers)

• 03 Feb 2020

• Trading

BIS calls for wider adoption of FX Global Code

Yet some industry participants question the benefits of asset managers signing up to the voluntary principles-based document

• 30 Jan 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

• Trading

Refinitiv pledges FX brokerage to Australian bushfire relief

The area already burned is triple the size of the land destroyed by the 2018 California fires

• 27 Jan 2020

• Foreign Exchange

FX Week January 27 2020 digital download (exclusive to FX Week Corporate subscribers)

• 27 Jan 2020

• Trading

Morgan Stanley more than doubles Q4 Ficc revenues

All US banks see Ficc revenues improve substantially in Q4 versus a year ago

• 24 Jan 2020

• Trading

StanChart’s e-FX trading engine goes live in Singapore 

Trade latency has been cut by more than 80%, Standard Chartered says

• 23 Jan 2020

• Tech and data

Colombia culls external reserve manager to boost competition

From 2016–18, the central bank reduced the number of institutions from seven to six

• 22 Jan 2020

• Foreign Exchange

FX Week January 20 2020 digital download (exclusive to FX Week Corporate subscribers)

• 20 Jan 2020

• Infrastructure

Cboe plans comeback in crypto markets

US exchange plans to offer crypto derivatives after previous attempts at regulatory approval to list crypto ETFs thwarted

• 16 Jan 2020

• Foreign Exchange

Iceland boosts reserves despite volatility in 2019

Central bank carried out FX interventions to offset “abrupt weakening” of krona

• 15 Jan 2020

• Foreign Exchange

Chile unexpectedly halts FX interventions

In December, interventions helped peso appreciate, but it has resumed downward trend

• 13 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

• Risk Management

Rival FX class action suit complicates cartel rigging claims

Only one can prevail, says judge of O’Higgins and Evans suits

• 10 Jan 2020

• Foreign Exchange

PBoC signs Laos currency settlement agreement

Deal comes as Chinese authorities push for greater global use of renminbi

• 09 Jan 2020