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US lets China off the hook

WASHINGTON, DC - The US Treasury has cleared China of manipulating its currency to gain unfair trade advantages against the US.

Westpac/St George biggest bank in Oz

The proposed merger of St George and Westpac will create Australia's largest bank by market capitalisation, at approximately AUD$66 billion on a pro-forma basis.

Cfets-CME partnership to aid China trade

BEIJING - The China Foreign Exchange Trade System (Cfets) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) are in the final stages of launching FX and interest rate futures trading in the Chinese market, said a senior official.

GS and MS lead in OTC commodities

GREENWICH, CT - Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are the biggest players in the over-the-counter commodity derivatives market, according to research released last week (May 13).

TD in Asia hub shake-up

SINGAPORE, SYDNEY & TORONTO - Toronto Dominion Securities has relocated its Asia foreign exchange and rates trading hub from Sydney to Singapore, in a move to boost its coverage of the emerging markets.

New roadmap standardises messaging

GLOBAL - A group of financial market messaging organisations released details of an investment roadmap designed to standardise messaging use across the industry earlier this month.

Quick rolls out new Icap data

TOKYO - Japanese financial information vendor Quick, the country's dominant domestic provider, is adding a suite of new currency datasets and services from interdealer broker Icap to its products.

FX has record Q1 at writedown-hit UBS

ZURICH & LONDON - High volatility drove a record quarter for UBS's foreign exchange business, but could only partially offset the effects of $19 billion-worth of US mortgage- and structured credit-related losses in its fixed-income, currencies and…

Efficient correlation

Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York, shows how a study of correlations can reveal valuable information about the shifting relationship between global currencies

BOC acts to curb RMB speculative buying

HONG KONG - Bank of China, the only clearing bank for Chinese renminbi foreign exchange transactions in Hong Kong, raised the cost of converting the Hong Kong dollar to renminbi last Wednesday (May 7).

IMF's policy advisory chair resigns

ROME - International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) chairman Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa has tendered his resignation from chairmanship of the International Monetary Fund's policy advisory committee.

BoA names global sales head

SINGAPORE & NEW YORK - Bank of America (BoA) has appointed a new global head of currency sales, over a month after the announced departure of former foreign exchange sales chief Bob Gotelli.

The new wave

Paul Caplin, chief executive at Caplin Systems in London, discusses the application of Web 2.0 for foreign exchange trading

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