Articles by FX Markets Staff
Three Nomura Lehman hires named
LONDON - Details continue to emerge about the identities of the 150 Lehman Brothers staff who made the move to Nomura in London two weeks ago ( FX Week , October 13).
BoNY signs up to GFI's Fenics FX
NEW YORK - Bank of New York Mellon has signed a three-year licence for GFI Fenics FX, a pricing and risk management software system.
Hotspot FX hires Asia sales head
SINGAPORE - Hotspot FX has appointed Trent Beacroft as head of Asia sales in Singapore.
Mixed forecast for FX
LONDON - Foreign exchange teams will avoid the worst of the job cuts in the City of London, although market sources warn no-one will be immune from redundancies.
Central bank turns broker
ISTANBUL - The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) has stepped in to broker interbank foreign exchange trades, in a bid to quell fears over counterparty risk in the local FX market.
BarCap picks Caplin for rates
LONDON - Barclays Capital has signed a contract to purchase web-based application Caplin Trader for its fixed-income electronic commerce system.
The confusion over central clearing
Over the past month, the concept of central counterparty (CCP) clearing has taken centre stage, as concerns over counterparty risk consume the market in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September.
Icap gains foothold in China
BEIJING - Icap has cast a wider net into the Chinese foreign exchange market by forming a strategic partnership with the country's largest data and information vendor, Xinhua News Agency.
Currencies shine in Q3
NEW YORK - Record levels of volatility are ensuring rates and currency businesses continue to be the shining lights, as evident in third-quarter fixed-income results released by dealers last week.
Swissie set to replace greenback in Russia
Igor Suzdaltsev, head of financial institutions at OTP Bank (Russia) in Moscow, explains why he believes Russia will switch affections from the US dollar to the Swiss franc
SWF assets reach $3.8trn
LONDON - Assets under management by global sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are set to reach $10 trillion by 2015, according to a new report by International Financial Services London (IFSL), a private sector industry body.
The Bank of Korea offers competitive option swap facility
SEOUL - The Bank of Korea (BoK) is introducing a competitive auction swap facility today (October 20), to ease the recent foreign currency funding strains in the market.
Credit Suisse launches currency basket options
LONDON - Credit Suisse has introduced currency basket options on Merlin, its proprietary electronic foreign exchange structured products trading platform, in response to client demand.
Forex derivatives under scrutiny
MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities will interview banks selling currency derivatives to corporates in the country, as part of an investigation into irregular reporting of exposures by listed companies.
Wall St Systems launches ESN
LONDON & PARIS - Wall Street Systems is in discussion with a Tier II and two Tier III US banks for use of its pay-as-you-go post-trade processing utility, Electronic Settlement Network (ESN).
City Index drops three in London
LONDON - Retail trading company City Index laid off three foreign exchange staff from its margin FX provider, IFX Markets, in London last Thursday (October 16), as it integrates the FX business with recently acquired FX Solutions.
Interbank lending eases further
LONDON - The Ted spread, along with overnight and three-month Libor, fell for the fourth day in succession after European governments announced bail-out packages on Monday (October 13), and the US followed suit on Tuesday.
Ex-Lehman UK staff find new FX roles
LONDON - Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered and JP Morgan have all moved to make further hires from Lehman Brothers' former foreign exchange team.
Futures broker RCG buys MG Financial
CHICAGO & NEW YORK - Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG) completed the acquisition of online foreign exchange trading company MG Financial on October 15.
Japan traders dump short yen positions
TOKYO - Japanese retail foreign exchange margin traders abandoned $16 billion worth of short yen positions within days last week, in a scramble to limit losses from unwinding carry trades.
JSE trades first $20m options contract
JOHANNESBURG - The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has traded its first currency options contract with a notional value of $20 million.
JDFX gets smart with Kontrol
ZURICH - Foreign exchange trading company JDFX has capitalised on an increasing focus on risk management within financial markets by launching Kontrol, a system built to eliminate inefficiencies and dangers caused by calculating risk several times a day…