Articles by Saima Farooqi
Segregated accounts: an uneasy compromise
State Street last week became the latest bank to take advantage of counterparty risk fears on the buy side, extending its hedge fund administration services to include custody, cash management and forex.
StanChart backs emerging market growth
Bank predicts commodity and emerging market growth will outperform the euro against the US dollar.
UK's FXJSC puts brakes on forex CCP
The London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee (FXJSC) has ruled out the immediate need to implement a central clearing facility to manage counterparty risk (a CCP) in foreign exchange, citing a series of mismatches in market conventions in a white…
BNP Paribas sells off IaaS unit in US
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options IT has purchased the clients and assets of BNP Paribas' infrastructure hosting business.
Smaller funds dead set on futures
A growing number of small fund managers are strongly considering switching out of forwards and into exchange-traded products to access the market for hedging and speculative purposes
Where now for foreign exchange?
FX Week editor Saima Farooqi looks back over the past 12 months and asks how the foreign exchange will now evolve?