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Foreign Exchange

Smarter trading in a fragmented world

FX Week recently hosted a webinar in partnership with Refinitiv to ask FX industry leaders to discuss geopolitical challenges, market changes and developments, and evolving technologies, and how they have shaped FX markets in Asia.

17 Dec 2019

Risk Management

XTX: top 10 banks will move to zero hold times in 2020

Awareness and competitive pressures will compel market-makers who have held out to cut holding times

17 Dec 2019

Foreign Exchange

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16 Dec 2019

Risk Management

Volatility becalmed, trade in FX options plummets

With central banks in tandem on policy, market churn lessens considerably

11 Dec 2019

Trading

FX market growing, but more risky – BIS review

Reduced reliance on PvP and heightened fragmentation threaten market resilience

10 Dec 2019

Foreign Exchange

Green FX hedging tipped to grow after BNPP/Siemens Gamesa deal

If the energy company misses ESG score it will pay a “sustainability premium” towards forestry projects

06 Dec 2019

Foreign Exchange

Greater exchange rate flexibility warranted in Peru – IMF

Limiting interventions would help reduce dollarisation further, says fund

05 Dec 2019

Algorithmic Trading

BidFX eyes expansion in execution tools and algos

Buy-side focus on FX exposure will drive development

05 Dec 2019

Foreign Exchange

Chile’s FX intervention likely to stabilise peso

But much depends on the reform programme the government chooses to adopt

04 Dec 2019

Foreign Exchange

Buy side still not adopting FX Global Code – Debelle

FX committee wants asset managers to embrace standards; shifts focus to algo trading

04 Dec 2019

Foreign Exchange

Chile to sell $400m a day in first week of FX interventions

Central bank selling $200 million in spot market and $200 million in 30-day forwards

03 Dec 2019

Foreign Exchange

Chile launches biggest FX intervention in 20 years

Chilean peso has fallen by 14% against dollar since mid-October amid massive street protests

02 Dec 2019

Foreign Exchange

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02 Dec 2019

Algorithmic Trading

Artificial intelligence in FX ‘may be hype’

Relevance for AI in foreign exchange does not stack up compared with other classes

29 Nov 2019

Foreign Exchange

Brazil sells dollars as real falls to record low

Currency declines 11.3% against dollar since July, as central bank cuts interest rates by 150bp to new low of 5%

28 Nov 2019

Trading

Call for clarity on last look rejections

Asset managers say holding periods “far in excess” of what is necessary for risk checks

27 Nov 2019

Risk Management

First all-RFR cross-currency swap traded

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley strike landmark €STR v SOFR trade

26 Nov 2019

Wholesale

Buy-side traders cannot be passive with algo execution

Traders need to be proactive and ensure in-depth monitoring throughout life of an order, panellists say

25 Nov 2019

Foreign Exchange

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25 Nov 2019

Foreign Exchange

iBanFirst expands with NBWM acquisition

More than 1,000 clients will gain access to a variety of FX products and services, as well as financing for global growth

20 Nov 2019

Foreign Exchange

Argentina’s currency controls help stabilise peso and reserves

Uncertainty about the fiscal policies of the incoming president is contributing to falling bond prices

18 Nov 2019

Hedge Funds

Building a hedge fund to challenge legacy players

Ross Newell, business development manager at CMC Institutional, discusses some of the challenges faced by those looking to formalise their independent FX trading activities into a structured fund, and why the demands of the investors should never be…