Trading
Fourth-quarter results a mixed bag for US banks
US dealers reported widely differing results for the fourth quarter of 2010 as competition returned to the market.
Trading Places, January 24, 2011
Read this week's Trading Places to catch up on people moves across the FX world.
Eight pilot SurfaceExchange FX derivatives platform
SurfaceExchange is piloting its anonymous FX derivatives trading platform with eight traders and plans to go live at the end of the first quarter.
ANZ gets Moore from Barclays Capital
ANZ has hired Paul Moore, a former Barclays Capital emerging markets trading head, alongside other FX appointments Christophe Massa and Thomas Mummert, according to market sources.
Back to the future
Lutz Karpowitz, currency strategist at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, asks whether Hu Jintao is right in saying the current global currency system is a product of the past
Israel clamps down on forex derivatives
The Bank of Israel (BoI) has joined the growing number of emerging market central banks to introduce tougher regulations on forex to battle the rise in speculative trading.
Foreign exchange concerns prompt investors to seek diversification
People on the buy-side give their thoughts on the prospect of a currency war, as central banks grapple with the problem of how much to intervene in their FX markets
RBS targets US growth
Royal Bank of Scotland has topped this week's 12-month historical index by maintaining that the global recovery would not be derailed by intensifying problems in the eurozone periphery.
Delelis finds a new home
Former head of spot and proprietary trading at Credit Suisse Alain Delelis has been hired by proprietary trading firm First New York Securities in New York (FX Week, March 22, 2010).
SocGen strengthens strategy team
Société Générale has strengthened its foreign exchange strategy team with three new hires in London, following the departure last year of senior FX strategist Valentin Marinov in London.
Post-restructuring movement at BarCap
Barclays Capital continues to reorganise its foreign exchange business with a promotion, while news of more departures from the business emerge.
Citi takes hit in rates and currencies
Citi and JP Morgan began the US quarterly results round, reporting a year-on-year drop in fourth-quarter fixed-income business revenues, with Citi citing falls in rates and currencies revenues.
Marex signs up to CME and Ice
Institutional broker Marex has joined exchanges CME and Ice as a full clearing member, it announced on January 18. Hunter Baldwin, managing director at Marex North America, said the move was in response to customer demand and Marex’s expansion into North…
China tests further easing of renminbi convertibility of capital account
China's State Council is advising the Shenzhen municipal government and local regulators about permitting renimibi conversion outside of currency restrictions
New CFTC documentation rules could force Isda master modifications
Proposed US rules might require changes to standardised global derivatives agreement
Connors out of Goldman Sachs
Senior foreign exchange manager leaves US bank for alleged compliance irregularities
Bayer warns EC: Don’t force us to slash jobs in EU
Christian Held, head of corporate treasury at pharmaceutical giant Bayer, threatened to move jobs abroad unless the European Commission “lets common sense prevail” over FX derivatives regulation.
Pension funds need exclusion from clearing, says Record
Mandatory clearing of FX forwards will seriously disrupt the investment strategies of pension funds, according to Neil Record, chairman at Record Currency Management.
UBS: FX CCPs will be “too big to fail”
Foreign exchange central counterparties (CCPs) will automatically be “too big to fail” because the consequences of failure are too terrible, according to Huw Evans, managing director and chief operating officer of FX at UBS.
Thomson Reuters’s time in the spotlight?
The old rivalry between EBS Spot and Thomson Reuters might be getting a new lease of life, as Thomson Reuters positions the Thomson Reuters Dealing system as a Sef and MTF-compliant platform for bespoke product trading. And now the Matching Host…
Thomson Reuters Dealing targets Sef and MTF compliance by Q4
Thomson Reuters aims to make the Thomson Reuters Dealing peer-to-peer conversational trading application compliant under swaps execution facility (Sef) and multi-lateral trading facility (MTF) rules by Q4, the vendor tells FX Week.
China key to euro fortunes
Simon Derrick, global head of FX strategy at Bank of New York Mellon in London says China’s fortunes are tightly entwined with those of the euro
BarCap departures on both sides of the Atlantic
Barclays Capital saw departures in London and New York last Wednesday (January 12) as the bank undergoes a series of cutbacks, according to market sources.