Saima Farooqi
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A response to Obama's reform plan
Details are being eagerly awaited for US President Barack Obama's banking reform plans announced last week – chiefly, what they mean for the new prop desks that have set up, and for prime brokerage relationships.
Barriers to liquidity management
David Poole, chief operating officer at client strategy company Clientknowledge in London, discusses liquidity management
The many faces of regulatory arbitrage
Happy new year (belated)! As we enter the new year the regulatory environment remains a key issue driving development, most recently in the form of the CFTC attempting to assert its authority on the US off-exchange retail forex market.
Morgan Stanley wins Advanced Markets as FXPB client
Success for nascent FX prime brokerage business.
An imbalanced proposition
At the time of going to press, decisions on the future of the foreign exchange markets was still hanging in the balance, as regulators in the US debated the inclusion of forex swaps and forwards into the over-the-counter derivatives reforms.