Articles by Cole Lipsky
Banks mull whether to stick or twist with SDPs
Fewer providers are going all-in on single-dealer platforms, as consolidation and outsourcing are on the cards
Morgan Stanley back on top for US insurer FX forwards
Counterparty Radar: Bank added $1.7bn with Mass Mutual in Q4 to overtake Citi as biggest dealer
Invesco more than triples size of its FX options book
Counterparty Radar: Manager’s portfolio exceeded $5 billion notional in Q4
Brazil readies long-dated FX hedging scheme for green projects
Development bank IDB will lend its credit rating to unlock cheaper USD/BRL hedges out to 25 years
Pimco’s cuts to FX forwards positions hit dealers in Q4
Counterparty Radar: State Street takes top spot among dealers as BNP Paribas slides to fourth
European funds face upsurge in settlement risk after T+1
Trade body Efama finds up to 40% of daily FX flows may have to settle outside protection of CLS
FX options traders rethink vol drivers amid macro uncertainty
Market-makers believe more and more events will influence options pricing as political risk bubbles up during 2024
As T+1 looms, non-US firms consider out-of-hours trading
Pruned settlement cycle forces foreign buy-siders to explore automating the FX leg of securities trades
FX losses mount after Argentina’s devaluation
Citi, Adidas among those taking hits totalling over $3.3bn in Q4 as dealers cite lack of hedging tools
New trading platform costs weigh on FX dealers
As roughly 75 platforms vie for business, LPs complain of struggle to keep up with connectivity costs
Corporates eye FX options as hedging costs shrink
With hedge ratios tipped to rise, dealers say treasurers are increasingly open to optionality
LMAX taps real money clients with Cürex deal
Acquisition aims to offer liquidity providers diverse flows from asset managers
JPM falls out of favour in FX forwards with US insurers
US bank exits top 10 after cuts from TIAA and Athene in Q3
360T awaits key trading exemption from Canadian regulator
Venue’s new UK MTF can’t include Canadian firms until approvals are granted
BNP takes top forwards spot with US mutuals
Counterparty Radar: French bank ousts Bank of America to lead the table for the first time
Banks deploy automated pricing for longer-dated FX swaps
Dealers are streaming and auto-hedging out to 10 years in some cases
FX HedgePool launches all-to-all FX swaps matching
P2P platform starts daily matching and opens up to banks, hedge funds and ECNs
Banks push back on proposal to lengthen CLS cutoff time
FX Markets USA: Move to widen window could mean significant infrastructure work for banks
LatAm electronification – a market stuck in the past
Electronic pricing and execution of Latin American currencies is still lagging, say dealers
Crypto ECNs aim to offer alternative to Clobs
CrossX and Cypator bring ECN-style trading and settlement to crypto, but rivals claim infrastructure isn’t ready
BNPP back in dealer top three for FX forwards with mutuals
Deutsche Bank, HSBC hit by cuts at Vanguard and Pimco in Q2
US life insurers take axe to FX forwards positions in Q2
Counterparty Radar: $47.5bn in G10 positions reported, a 12.9% decline from Q1
On-chain FX’s brave new world excites some, worries others
Trading tokenised versions of currencies on blockchain could slash settlement risk but sceptics raise concerns over liquidity and pricing
GFMA’s disruption template paused due to Isda definition clash
Close-out framework put on hold as Isda reviews 1998 FX derivatives rule book