Articles by FX Markets Staff
InterbankFX and FXCM face fines
CHICAGO - The National Futures Association (NFA) has fined online brokers FXCM and InterbankFX $175,000 and $100,000, respectively, for failure to meet NFA member rules.
SWFX smashes trading volume record
GENEVA - SWFX, a Geneva-based trading platform, reached a record $10 billion traded on August 16. The platform, aimed at institutions, banks, hedge funds and private investors, has averaged daily volumes of $6 billion a day this year. This represents a…
BarCap launches new currency
LONDON - Barclays Capital has unveiled a synthetic currency intended to reduce funding costs for corporate clients, banks and hedge funds.
Norwegian krone joins the high-yield club
Ian Stannard, senior currency strategist at BNP Paribas in London, surveys the NOK's earning potential
Regulators slam ODL Securities
CHICAGO - Institutional broker ODL Securities and the Chicago-based president of its US subsidiary, Brian King, have been jointly fined $165,000 after being found guilty of a series of violations to the National Futures Association (NFA) member rules.
Credit Suisse shifts Asia roles
LONDON & SINGAPORE - Credit Suisse is changing the role of one Singapore-based foreign exchange salesperson and relocating another member of the sales team to Tokyo.
BIS TRIENNIAL FX SURVEY: BIS survey highlights OTC surge
BASEL - A marked feature of the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) latest triennial foreign exchange survey was the rapid growth in over-the-counter interest rate and foreign exchange derivatives.
Global FX trading up 71%
BASEL - The huge growth in daily turnover in the global foreign exchange market, revealed in the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) triennial foreign exchange survey last week, continues to solidify FX as an asset class.
BMO Capital debuts London FX
LONDON - The Bank of Montreal Capital Markets is launching an FX sales and trading desk in London this week, to give FX clients better access to information and increased liquidity during the European session. Lorne Gavsie is leading the effort as…
Deutsche upgrades db MarketPlace
LONDON - Deutsche Bank is rolling out an upgraded version of its interactive order book, db Marketplace, next week.
Lehman launches quant platform for currencies
LONDON - Lehman Brothers has launched the Macro Quantitative Currency Strategies platform (MarQCuS), an investable product enabling investors to access quantitative foreign exchange strategies.
Global FX trading up 71%
BASEL - The huge growth in daily turnover in the global foreign exchange market, revealed in the Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) triennial foreign exchange survey last week, continues to solidify FX as an asset class.
Saxo Bank gains Swiss Synthesis
GENEVA – Saxo Bank is set to acquire Geneva-based online trading and investment bank Synthesis Bank, representing a significant push to establish a presence in the Swiss private banking market.
Credit crisis wipes out FX gains
NEW YORK - Bear Stearns confirmed it was the US securities dealer with the most damaging exposure to the troubled US mortgage market when it unveiled a third-quarter net profit of $171.3 million, a year-on-year drop of 61%
Standard Chartered offers ESP
Standard Chartered has begun offering executable streaming prices (ESP) on the Bloomberg forex dealing platform.
Timing the USD decline
A 50 basis point Fed cut has confirmed that USD cyclical support is fading rapidly, according to Niels From, global FX strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort in Frankfurt
BNP expands in Europe
EUROPE - BNP Paribas is understood to have boosted its European presence with hires in London and Madrid, and a new representative office in Stockholm.
Citi gets go-ahead in Dhaka
DHAKA - Citi became the first foreign bank to secure a merchant banking licence in Bangladesh, enabling the US dealer to act as an adviser, underwriter and lead manager in the country's local capital markets.
Currency returns reach new high
LONDON - Currency overlay managers have achieved record median excess returns in the second quarter, according to a new survey by BNY Mellon Asset Servicing.
Deutsche breaks into Asia's mid-market
SINGAPORE - Deutsche Bank has created a global markets centre (GMC) in Singapore to target the booming mid-market customer base in Asia.
Capital enters retail FX
LONDON - Capital Forex, the FX arm of online trading company London Capital Group, is white-labelling Currenex's technology to break into the retail foreign exchange market.
SPECIAL FEATURE: CLS settlement: the next five years
This month marks the five-year anniversary of CLS. FX Week and Rob Close, president and CEO of CLS Bank, discuss the past five years and the future of the industry utility