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Retail platforms in currency expansion

NEW YORK - Online FX trading companies CMS Forex and FXCM have added new currencies to their trading platforms, allowing retail traders to trade in emerging market currencies.

Taratunio joins Bank of America

NEW YORK - Senior foreign exchange salesperson Gary Taratunio is heading to Bank of America (BoA) in New York, after leaving JP Morgan last month.

Another good quarter for FX

BOSTON & NEW YORK - US dealers posted record second-quarter revenues from foreign exchange business, as volatility remained high over the period.

Deutsche ETN yields top returns

NEW YORK - Deutsche Bank's Australian dollar currency exchange-traded note (ETN) has generated the highest three-month returns among those surveyed by FX Week , at 7.86% as of July 17.

Bringing it home

Naomi Fink, Japan strategist in global markets sales and trading at the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ says tax breaks in Japan won't be enough to encourage Japanese investors to repatriate their Brazilian profits to the country

Pakistan shuts rupee FX forwards

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan suspended foreign exchange forwards trades and shortened FX trading hours last Wednesday (July 9), in a bid to curb a sharp devaluation of the rupee (PKR) against the US dollar, say local traders.

One down in FX at Credit Suisse LONDON

Credit Suisse is understood to have suffered a loss in its foreign exchange options team in London. Ian Hamilton, an FX exotics options trader at the bank, is said to have left last week (July 7).

Wesselius joins Deutsche

AMSTERDAM, ATHENS & LONDON - Deutsche Bank has hired BNP Paribas' former foreign exchange sales head for the Netherlands to lead its Dutch FX coverage.

Calyon hires ex-Commerzbank head

LONDON - Calyon is said to have hired Nasir Afaf, formerly head of foreign exchange options at Commerzbank, as its new head of FX trading in London.

BoA in global reshuffle

NEW YORK, CHARLOTTE & LONDON - Bank of America has consolidated its global rates, currencies and commodities (GRCC) and credit products (GCP) businesses into a newly formed global fixed-income platform.

Euro growth continuing, says ECB

FRANKFURT - Despite doubts over its survival at launch 10 years ago, the euro remains a strong player in the international currency market, according to the European Central Bank (ECB).

CNCE adopts SmartTrade platform

NEW YORK & PARIS - Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne (CNCE), the French banking head of Groupe Caisse d'Epargne, has selected the SmartTrade Transaction Platform (STTP) to source and distribute liquidity from CNCE's internal pricing engines to…

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