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ABN Amro lifts CLS award
ABN Amro pipped UBS to the post for best bank for third-party CLS category.
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.
FXall holds onto multi-bank award
FXall continued its winning streak in the best bank for multi-bank FX portal stakes, and said it is focused on staying ahead of the field.
Flextrade picks up algorithmic honours
Flextrade Systems took the award of best vendor for algorithmic trading.
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.
Cognotec named top technology vendor
Cognotec returned to the top of the podium in the best vendor for dealing technology category, after finishing second to Reuters in 2005.
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…
SuperD takes first place in options pricing category
SUPERDERIVATIVES HAS WON the award for best options pricing and risk management system for a second year running.
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.
Five years' hard work pays off for Danske
DANSKE BANK WON best bank for Scandinavian currencies, knocking last year's winner Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) off the top spot.
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