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BarCap top in e-trading

Barclays Capital has won the best bank for e-trading award for the first time, overtaking last year's winner UBS.

HSBC gains ground in majors

After cementing its position as the pre-eminent bank in emerging market currencies, HSBC is beginning to make headway as a strong contender in the majors.

The Singapore solution

The FX Week Asia conference held in Singapore last Tuesday attracted some of the industry's leading practitioners to examine the diverse challenges facing the market today. Here, we bring you some of the news from the event

FXMarketSpace ups ante

LONDON – Twenty banks have committed to becoming clearing prime brokers on the FXMarketSpace platform, a senior official at the CME/Reuters venture told FX Week.

AIB to pay €30m for overcharging

DUBLIN – Allied Irish Bank (AIB) is to pay over €30 million in further damages relating to foreign exchange overcharging, ending a two-year investigation into the matter.

A capital adventure

Michael Spencer tells FX Week about how he turned Icap from a four-man business into a £3 billion FTSE 100-listed powerhouse in 20 years, and about his plans for EBS

A changing electronic forex landscape

The e-FX awards celebrate best practice and innovation in this space. This is the third time we have held the awards, and we took a fresh look at the categories, and in partnership with external consultants came up with a new range of awards to reflect…

UBS bags post trade gong

UBS TOOK THE TOP SPOT for the newly created post trade services category. The Swiss bank said that service following completion of trades is becoming increasingly important in a market where margins are ever tighter and it is harder than ever to…

Deutsche top in trading

DEUTSCHE BANK may have come second in the overall award but it took the major trading awards with wins in spot, euro/dollar, forwards and best bank in eurozone.

HSBC dominates the new markets

HSBC CONTINUES TO lead the charge in Asian currencies topping the Asia Pacific and emerging Asian categories. This year, however, the bank also jumped to first place in the emerging currencies of EMEA, having placed fifth last year.

4Cast bags strategy award

RESEARCH FIRM 4CAST claimed the title of best vendor for FX research and strategy, taking the crown from Informa Global Markets, which has dominated the category over the past 10 years.

FXall retains top multi-bank spot

FXALL HELD ON TO FIRST place in the best multi-bank portal category, and has leapt from fourth place to first in the banks section, to claim a clean sweep across voter types.

Citigroup tops options

CITIGROUP TAKES HOME the award for best house for FX options this year, pulling ahead of last year's winner, JP Morgan, which slid to fifth place.

Merger pays off for Tullett

TULLETT PREBON scooped awards as best broker for forward FX and best broker in emerging markets, demonstrating that the merger has enabled the new entity to retain the best talent of the two entities that made it up.

Reuters takes Cognotec's top spot

REUTERS HAS SCOOPED the award for best vendor for dealing technology, overthrowing the long-term winner Cognotec, which won each of the previous seven awards.

EBS continues to dominate spot

EBS CONTINUES TO dominate its core market of spot FX, taking the accolade for this year's best spot broker ahead of Reuters, Tullett Prebon and TFS-Icap.

All this and more

In the final multibank platform focus, FX Week looks at the prospects of FXall in its bid to continue the growth it saw in its first four years

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