Articles by FX Markets Staff
RealStream Margin revamped
LONDON - Cognotec is set to roll out the latest version of its web-based margin trading system, RealStream Margin 3.0, in response to market demand for efficiency and enhanced risk management products.
Caplin Systems a star onboarder
LONDON - Caplin Systems, a London-based web technology vendor, has signed two major European banks to its multi-asset trading platform, Caplin Trader.
Asia's tigers show their stripes
For Nick Chamie, head of emerging markets research at RBC Dominion Securities in Toronto, memories of Asia's 1997 meltdown are resurfacing as concern grows in the region
A delicate phase for the euro
Audrey Childe-Freeman, senior currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York, evaluates the prospects for the euro
Barclays integrates Lehman FX in US
NEW YORK - Barclays Capital announced last Tuesday (October 7) that it has fully integrated Lehman Brothers' US foreign exchange and commodities businesses under the Barclays Capital name.
360T offers multi-leg swaps
FRANKFURT - Multi-dealer trading vendor 360 Treasury Systems (360T) is set to introduce multi-leg foreign exchange swap trading on its cross-product trading platform, 360T TEX, in response to client demand.
CME outsources E-quotes data app to CVS
CHICAGO - CME Group has rolled out a new version of its web-based E-quotes data display application and wireless add-on - built and hosted by technology partner Computer Voice Systems (CVS) -which incorporates data from acquisitions the Chicago Board of…
FX traders exercise caution
GLOBAL - Traders worldwide continue to avoid dealing with each other, despite co-ordinated efforts by global central banks to ease the turmoil in the financial market through rate cuts and fund injections.
Króna in chaos during Iceland's meltdown
REYKJAVIK - Confusion reigned in Icelandic króna trading last week, as the country's central bank, Sedlabanki, abandoned its peg to a basket of nine currencies a day after it was effected.
FXMarketSpace abandoned
CHICAGO & LONDON - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Thomson Reuters have confirmed their joint venture platform FXMarketSpace will be shut down, ending speculation over the system's future.
Korea's KEB begins trading on EBS
SEOUL - Interdealer broker Icap is deepening its footprint in the emerging markets, with Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) now using its spot-broking system, EBS.
Colombia fruitful for Citi settlement
BOGOTA & NEW YORK - Citi's Colombia-based domestic settlement service began settling more than $1.3 billion in FX trades daily in September, representing in excess of 80% of the Colombian wholesale FX market.
Icap expands European coverage with Equinix
LONDON - Icap has extended a deal with datacenter provider Equinix to give European clients access to low-latency data from Icap's EBS spot foreign exchange trading platform.
$80bn bail-out likely in Asia
SEOUL - A group of Asian nations might be moving closer to creating a pool of rescue funds worth more than $80 billion, in a bid to resolve the short-term liquidity shortages plaguing the region, say analysts.
Decline continues on Parker FX
STAMFORD, CT - The Parker FX Index made a loss of 0.73% in August, falling further from a negative 0.11% the previous month, as the sharp appreciation in the US dollar caught out 60% of managers.
Baxter enters algo execution
NEW YORK - Baxter Financial Services will add algorithmic execution features over its electronic communications network (ECN) Baxter FX by the end of the year.
ICE launches FX futures
ATLANTA - The Intercontinental-Exchange (ICE) is launching ICE Millions, a suite of foreign exchange futures contracts, on November 6, in the latest move by an exchange to capitalise on fears over counterparty credit risk.
RBS's Lintern joins Standard Chartered
LONDON - Standard Chartered has appointed Philippe Lintern as co-head of flow foreign exchange options trading, where he will work alongside Singapore-based Fidelis Oruche.
Liquidity drought hits ruble options
MOSCOW - Trading volumes released on October 9 show the global lack of liquidity took a serious toll on Russian ruble futures and options trading on the Russian Trading System (RTS), Moscow's international securities and derivatives exchange in September.
Strike while the iron is hot
Pete Luxton, economic adviser, and Shant Movsesian, manager, foreign exchange options, at Informa Global Markets in London suggest a basket strategy to play euro weakness
FXMPG tackles FX practices
BRUSSELS - The Foreign Exchange Market Practice Group (FXMPG) plans to hold its first meeting in January, to begin establishing global market practice for foreign exchange activities.
Nomura takes 150 Lehman refugees
LONDON - Richard Gladwin, former global head of foreign exchange at Lehman Brothers in London, is leading an exodus of the defunct bank's FX staff to Nomura, according to market sources in London.