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The month that 2011 got interesting
March in perspective: an earthquake in Japan and soaring yen; Thomson Reuters Matching out for four hours; Icap moves to decimals on EBS; and what's the latest on Pure FX?
FXall to roll out buy-side benchmarking tool
Move follows a similar product launched in partnership with ITG in May 2010 that has seen limited adoption among buy-side firms
Multi-bank options platforms: the vision versus the reality
New platforms offering multi-bank FX options trading are finding it tough to manage the manual pricing processes of banks and the complex close-out arrangements inherent in options. Farah Khalique reports
BNP Paribas goes mobile with e-commerce platform
French bank invests in electronic and social media strategy
ANZ’s yen forecasts buoyed by G-7 intervention
Concerted intervention to weaken the yen brought yen pairs closer to the bank's predictions
Spotlight on: Clive Banks, BNP Paribas
The global head of FX and local market sales at BNP Paribas in London talks to Joel Clark about the bank’s plans to strengthen and expand its FX franchise over the next three years, with a particular focus on technology and emerging markets
Dollar weakness will continue, warns Barclays Capital
UK bank predicts eurodollar will rise over the next month as current trends continue
Audio: ECB and BOJ face crisis
Nick Beecroft, senior markets consultant at Saxo Bank, discusses the challenges facing the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan
Spotlight on: Felix Adam, ACT Currency Partner
The founder and chief executive of Zurich-based currency hedge fund ACT Currency Partner talks to Joel Clark about the history of the fund and the changes he has witnessed in the FX market over the past 30 years
Traiana rolls out forex clearing connectivity service
Citi and CME Clearing become the first to join the network as the market prepares for the advent of FX clearing
Japanese disaster causes yen uncertainty
Strategists say it is difficult to predict the performance of the yen as uncertainty over the Japanese situation continues
Barclays Capital reshuffles FX structuring roles
Senior structurers to switch locations by mid-year as bank merges two business lines
Icap mulls bank-only alternative to Pure FX
Discussions progress about new functionality on Icap's platform that could eliminate the threat of Pure FX
What Japan’s crisis means for the yen
Reflecting on the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, Thomas Stolper, chief FX strategist at Goldman Sachs in London, challenges popular assumptions that have been made about the impact the crisis will have on the yen
Pure FX: Market or mirage?
Pure FX has been the subject of plenty of speculation since it was first mooted last year, but there is still little clarity over whether the project will come to fruition. Some banks and trading platforms say there is no need for the venture
CMC rises as euro falls post debt crisis
CMC forecast euro to fall as the debt crisis intensified in March 2010
SGX to clear FX forwards despite possible Treasury exemption
SGX to add new currencies and asset classes, including FX forwards, to OTC clearing service
Yen will strengthen as it did after Kobe, say currency strategists
The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 will not force a weakening of the yen, according to currency strategists focused on the region.
FX Invest Europe: Renminbi could overtake euro as alternative reserve currency
Panellists discuss the US dollar as the unquestioned reserve currency
Alpari launches FX options platform
Platform launched on March 9 to execute vanilla options trading strategies
Spotlight on: the buy side
At the FXInvest Europe conference in Zurich on March 8, foreign exchange investors and fund managers met to discuss key issues driving the FX market in 2011 and the possible impact of new regulations. Farah Khalique caught up with three of them
Thomson Reuters Matching hit by four-hour outage
Banks and competitors react to the lengthy blackout on the FX trading platform on March 9.
Scotia Capital triumphs with bullish long-term euro view in 2010
Toronto-based corporate and investment banking group Scotia Capital has topped this week’s 12-month currency forecast rankings for the third consecutive week.
The euro: Up or down?
Nearly a year after the eurozone sovereign debt crisis erupted, we talk to four currency strategists to ascertain the prospects for the European currency over the coming year and identify the euro bears and bulls