Infrastructure
September year-on-year volume increase at CLS
NEW YORK – CLS experienced a year-on-year rise in volumes settled over its system in September.
HSBC FXPB preps Asia push
HONG KONG - HSBC plans to extend FX prime services to the Asian markets as it looks to take advantage of rising demand for prime brokerage in the region.
CME chief says central clearing house removes 'black swan' threat
Chicago Merchantile Exchange's (CME) Asia energy and metals chief says the group’s central counterparty clearing (CCP) house removes the possibility of a ‘black swan’ incident
Barclays Capital boosts prime brokerage distribution
NEW YORK & LONDON - Barclays Capital is boosting sales coverage of foreign exchange product as part of the expansion of its cross-asset prime services business.
GFI Fenics in end-to-end FX options automation
GFI Group aims to transform the electronic FX options business by automating the entire workflow process of pricing, risk management, bilateral trading, structuring and sales, through version 12.1 of Fenics Professional.
Let CCPs compete, Isda conference told
Competing for business will not fatally undermine derivatives clearing – as long as the system is well regulated, speakers claim
SGX AsiaClear aims to be Asia's CCP for rates and FX swaps
SGX president Muthukrishnan Ramaswami says the new interbank OTC clearing service for Singapore and US dollar interest rate swaps will target Asian banks as a start, and soon global investment banks that trade with Asian counterparties. Asian local…
Service outage hits Barclays Capital's first OTC clearing client
Client clearing glitch highlights the complexity of what is expected to be a major new business.
FX - After the trade is made: the future of the CLS relationship
How will CLS fare as new regulations take hold? Olaf Ransome, director at forex operations consultancy, 3C Advisory in Zurich examines the future for the FX infrastructure
CME to launch e-micro gold contracts
CHICAGO - CME Group plans to launch e-micro gold futures on its electronic trading platform CME Globex on October 3, for a trade date of October 4, in response to growing demand for smaller contracts.
Deutsche Bank enhances Autobahn FX for FXO
LONDON - Deutsche Bank has built out its trading capabilities for forex options on electronic trading platform Autobahn FX, as competition for electronic business moves to the options market.
RBS hires in prime brokerage from BarCap
STAMFORD, CT - Royal Bank of Scotland is expanding the Americas coverage of its prime-brokerage business with the hire of Matthew Shuman to its fixed-income, currencies and commodities (FICC) prime brokerage team.
Alpari US live with Morgan Stanley FXPB
Retail trading company Alpari US has dropped Newedge in favour of Morgan Stanley as its foreign exchange prime broker, as part of plans to reduce trade sizes and auto-hedge its retail flows.
SEB FXPB targets Q4 live date on EBS and Reuters
SEB will go live with three prime brokerage clients on EBS Spot and Thomson Reuters Matching for Prime Brokerage at the start of the fourth quarter.
Sizeable portion of banks not planning to become clearing members
Battle for client clearing business set to heat up, reveals Risk interdealer poll
Interview with IDB's Amir Tal on the tech arms race
Amir Tal speaks to FX Week's Farah Khalique about how smaller financial services firms keep up with their larger rivals
MAS approves SMX for commodities and currencies
SINGAPORE – The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has granted final approval to the Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX), to operate as a regulated and licensed exchange.
In Brief, August 9, 2010
Read this week's In Brief to stock up on the latest technology news around the FX world.
BAML live on CLS/Traiana by October
NEW YORK - Bank of America Merrill Lynch is due to go live on the CLS/Traiana joint venture trade-aggregation service by October, making it the last of the eight founding banks to begin processing through the service.
Clearers pile into Asia
The region seizing the opportunity to offer central clearing for over-the-counter products seems to be the Asia-Pacific, which explains LCH.Clearnet’s plans to aggressively push into that market.
Exclusive: LCH.Clearnet in a raft of Asia deal talks
Clearing giant LCH.Clearnet strengthens its position in Asia as it looks to seal a number of clearing deals with a raft of exchanges and other market participants
Exchange trading sees sharp rise in July
CHICAGO & LONDON - Exchange trading experienced a sharp year-on-year rise in July, overshadowing a marginal increase on traditional spot systems.
LCH.Clearnet may offer 'lite' membership to sovereigns
Clearer's plans to create a special membership category for central banks and other sovereigns could undermine CCPs' risk-mutualisation model, rivals claim.
Liquidity critical to OTC clearing, argue dealers
Regulators should consider liquidity when deciding which over-the-counter derivatives should be cleared, say market participants