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Berntsen replaces Rojas as Americas CEO at StanChart
As Rojas moves on, Berntsen will also head up corporate and institutional banking for the Americas
Automated payment systems in high demand for UK businesses
Afex survey shows 44% of UK companies expect to increase global payments
Dahlström, SEB's global head of FX spot exits
Markus Dahlström leaves the Swedish bank after 15 years, two of which he spent at the helm of spot trading
ADS Securities to pull back from London, Watson resigns
ADS Securities London will become regional base, redundancies on the cards
FastMatch hires Thomas as sales director
Firm pushes ahead with build out of its New York sales force
Ex-Citi Soliman launches new PoP venture
Backed by New Zealand-based Stater Holdings, the firm is targeting sub-$50m hedge funds and retail brokers
FastMatch partners TradAir
Trading venue will target institutional clicker traders to diversify liquidity and boost volumes
Australian authorities ban Deutsche FX trader for life
Andrew Donaldson tried to hide losses with false entries and inflated the bank's revenues by 28 million euros
Rivelli leaves Brevan Howard
Chris Rivelli leaves the firm after only a year
IPC to onboard FastMatch to its FX Hub
The move provides market participants on the IPC ecosystem with access to FastMatch's trading platform and other services
Morgan Stanley grabs Abiola for FX sales role
Aki Abiola joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Yaroyov heads up e-markets distribution at Sberbank CIB
Vladimir Yaroyov joins from Moscow Exchange, where he was head of FX
Kite launches blockchain jobs website
Consulting group goes live with Blocktribe, a specialist recruitment site
GTX to launch London and Tokyo matching engines
London engine goes live on October 15, with TY3 to follow within 90 days. GTX partners Nightberg for research
CBOE buys Bats for $3.2bn
The firm is expected to incorporate the functionality of both platforms and migrate its trading to Bats' proprietary system
EU non-cleared margin regime set to take effect in January 2017
EC expected to publish its final non-cleared margin rules on October 4
Banks warn prime brokerage clients of ‘material’ MVA costs
Some buy-siders are reassessing relationships as a result
EBS launches Live Ultra data feed
Participation criteria set at $200 million of price maker orders as minimum and requires participants to act as makers at least 40% of the time
ITG hires Costa-Santos and Nogueira
Costa-Santos will be head of FX, while Nogueira will be a director in the analytics team
ForexClear volumes to hit $300 billion in September
The 100% growth compared with August comes as dealers in both the US and Europe expect costs to rise
CLS to launch payments netting service
CLS Netting, expected to go live in late 2017, will allow institutions to net trades currently not included in the CLS settlement service
INTL FCStone subsidiary upgrades payments platform
Global payments division launches Fix protocol for cross-border payments in exotic currencies
BIS: EM central banks up FX intervention to preserve stability
Maintaining financial stability shown to be increasingly important for EM central banks operating in FX markets
Jer takes over from Sinclair as MarketFactory chief
James Sinclair to become executive chairman of MarketFactory