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Constantia upgrades
SAN FRANCISCO - Calypso Technology has been licensed by Austria's Constantia Privatbank to provide a cross-asset class platform for front, middle and back office.
BNP demands $50 million from SembCorp
SINGAPORE - BNP Paribas is demanding US$50.7 million from Singapore-based marine engineering company SembCorp Marine's subsidiary, Jurong Shipyard, for losses from unauthorised foreign exchange trades, the company revealed last month.
Bonuses expected to plummet in 2008
LONDON - Foreign exchange staff should expect smaller bonuses in 2008, following the summer's credit crisis, consultants tell FX Week .
JP Morgan unveils new multi-commodity index
LONDON - JP Morgan has launched a new commodity curve index that references 33 commodities across various maturities.
Mifid spurs e-trading growth
LONDON - Best execution requirements under Mifid could boost growth in electronic foreign exchange volume, according to a keynote address at last week's FX Week Europe event.
New Swift solution aims for better processing
NEW YORK - Bloomberg is teaming up with industry messaging co-operative Swift to tackle the division between the front, middle and back offices when processing foreign exchange trades.
Retail sets the pace for future of forex
LONDON - The retail market is likely to set the standard for the future of foreign exchange, said panelists at the FX Week Europe conference last Tuesday.
ECB needs to have a global outlook
LONDON - Global factors will increasingly influence European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy decisions, Philippe Moutot, the director of monetary policy at the central bank, said last week.
Pre-operational netting now a necessity
LONDON - This summer's credit crisis has highlighted the need for the foreign exchange industry to resolve back-office burdens created by ticketing growth, according to Andy Coyne, global head of FX prime brokerage at Citi.
CLS sets record for daily settlements
LONDON & NEW YORK - CLS Bank set a new record for the volume of payment instructions settled in a single day on November 13.
StanChart introduces electronic NDF trading
LONDON - Standard Chartered began offering electronic trading in emerging market non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) over proprietary electronic platform Straight2Bank Web and through multi-bank platform FXall on November 13.
FX algos no longer just for big players
LONDON - Gaining an edge in foreign exchange execution through trading algorithms is no longer the domain of just the largest forex dealers, according to a panel at the FX Week Europe congress last week.
UBS makes more changes to FICC team
ZURICH - UBS has unveiled further changes to its newly created fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) division, less than a month after revealing substantial third-quarter losses relating to the subprime crisis.
Generating alpha: benefiting from beta
HONG KONG - Understanding beta and passive alpha strategies is valuable to alpha generation in foreign exchange, said Raymond Franzi, director and head of global finance and FX structuring for Asia-Pacific at Deutsche Bank.
Apama users given more algo options
Trading technology vendor Progress Software has integrated the Progress Apama algorithmic trading platform into electonic communications network Accelor.
SWFs more likely than central banks to diversify FX assets
LONDON - Sovereign wealth funds are much more aggressive in diversifying foreign exchange assets than central banks, says Mansoor Mohi-uddin, the managing director of FX stategy at UBS.
UBS makes more changes to FICC team
ZURICH - UBS has unveiled further changes to its newly created fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) division, less than a month after revealing substantial third-quarter losses relating to the subprime crisis.
More forex departures at Bank of America
YORK - Further changes at Bank of America's foreign exchange business have emerged as the US dealer realigns FX with its rates business.
Electronic FX volumes expected to reach 80% by 2010
NEW YORK - Electronic foreign exchange trading will account for 80% of the overall FX market by 2010, according to research released last week.
FX Solutions presents Web Trader platform
NEW YORK - New York-based retail trading company FX Solutions has begun demonstrating a browser-based version of online trading front-end GTS Pro.
SuperD adds inflation products to platform
NEW YORK - Derivatives data and pricing software vendor SuperDerivatives is adding support for inflation-linked securities and derivatives to its SD-IR interest rate derivatives pricing module, in response to client demand for data to hedge inflation…