Opinion
Is this FX futures’ big moment?
Exchanges eye big opportunity for their FX futures offerings as initial margin deadline looms
El Salvador’s bitcoin currency experiment
Move by first nation to approve bitcoin as legal tender raises important issues, writes former Fed advisor
LSEG buyout finally unshackles Matching and FXall
After watching the market evolve around them, platforms can finally get on the front foot
Shining a light on FX algo disclosures
FX Markets' new algo database will enable readers to compare offerings from the major providers
Passive algos and patient traders
Are all passive fills worth having? XTX’s Matt Clarke says not
Internalisation in the spotlight? Don’t hold your breath
Industry relaxed about internal hedging despite BIS warning of potential threat to price discovery
Price limits in FX algos: fill your boots
Do limits affect performance? Double machine learning helps answer the question, says BestX quant
Is FX catching up with Silicon Valley?
The industry is taking a leaf out of the Silicon Valley playbook to leverage automation, AI and big data, write BNP Paribas execs
FX options: the race to electronification has only just begun
Could years of entrenched voice trading in FX options be about to end as electronification gathers pace?
New hedging tools for corps will test sales teams
Advances in automation could spell big changes in skills required of bank salespeople
If stablecoins are money, they should be backed by reserves
The growth of stablecoins could reduce the supply of safe collateral available to markets
Central banks must mobilise their FX reserves
Pandemic and climate crises call for bold action, write Gary Smith and John Nugée
Asset managers hold the key to any FX revival
For a regime shift to truly occur, long-term investors need to get on board
FX settlement risk: good news at last
Industry utility CLS could finally be given the scope to tackle a growing risk in foreign exchange
Benchmark rigging scandal: a remake in the making
Regulators should act now to prevent any repeat of the fixing scandal of 2013
Public policy lines blur: implications for reserve managers
Crisis-fighting has pushed central banks into new forms of risk-taking, and this is now spilling into reserve management, says Jennifer Johnson-Calari
How to navigate fragmented NDF liquidity
Liquidity consumers need to embrace dialogue with their LPs as an integral part of the liquidity curation process, argue HSBC execs
Why bigger can be better with FX options
Large notionals often trade at significantly tighter spreads than smaller ones. Simon Nursey at Digital Vega explains why
Unleashing the potential of NDFs
Trading in non-deliverable forwards is on a roll, despite concerns over liquidity
NDFs: how algos can make sense of the fragments
The scattering of liquidity in non-deliverable forwards calls for new execution tools, argue HSBC execs
Tackling settlement risk is a serious business
Unless market participants comes together, the risk in the system is here to stay
Do macroeconomic releases still matter?
Tradefeedr’s Alexei Jiltsov explores how FX and other asset classes react to macroeconomic reports
An end to the loveless marriage with the US dollar?
Covid-19 represents an unexpected shock that could cause further US dollar decoupling, which could show up in next week’s Cofer data release, writes Gary Smith of Tabula Investment Management
Brexit, Hong Kong tensions revive FX options market
Political wrangles have helped boost FX options volumes in Hong Kong dollar and sterling