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Optimisation firms prep for SA-CCR boom
FX expected to be big focus of industry’s new slimming drive – and vendors are jockeying for position
CFTC urged to take lead on CCP margin models
Advisory committee unable to agree steps on margin period of risk, model transparency
FX Markets Asia Awards 2020: The winners
Citi lands four wins in this year’s awards
Behind the mask: FX market raises fears over tagging ‘abuse’
Front running and tag refreshing concerns abound on semi-anonymous trading platforms
Fee fight: dealers take aim at brokerage costs
Old tensions have new edge as banks urge clients to bypass platforms
Swaps data: cleared volumes drop for all markets – except FX
Smaller CCPs make market share gains in a quarter of double-digit declines for rates and credit
For FX dealers, virus brings volumes
Mixed feelings for sell-side traders as Covid-19 spurs wave of speculation and hedging
Former EBS e-FX specialist Myers joins social media platform
Moving from a money market sales position at CME, she becomes CCO at All of Us
Price changes expected as uncleared margin rules bite
Panellists urge buy side to install lifecycle management tools to calculate margin and reconcile payments with brokers
Winners of the FX Week 2019 Best Banks Awards
The awards acknowledge excellence in foreign exchange
Best Bank Awards: CME
CME is voted Best FX clearing house at the 2019 FX Week Best Bank Awards
FX trading volumes slip in September after strong August numbers
Spot FX volumes slipped at the end of Q3 following an unusually active August
Conlan moves to San Juan Mercantile Bank & Trust International
The industry veteran was global head of FX sales at INTL FCStone for over a decade earlier in his career
Institutional crypto interest awaits infrastructure
Start-ups and entrenched players aim to bring over custody, execution and post-trade capabilities
Mellor swaps Nex for Refinitiv
Nex Group’s former chief marketing officer joined the firm earlier this month
ExodusPoint recruits Jim Iorio
Nex’s former global head of sales and head of FX Americas joins hedge fund
David Ireland set to join XTX as CFO
Former CFO of Nex Optimisation starts his new role next month
JP Morgan tells HFTs: you’re ‘all finding homes’
But credit intermediation space has inefficiencies that more kill switches would address, conference hears
Clearing to become cheaper alternative to PB for most clients
IDX panel says it’s doubtful FX will ever see a clearing mandate
Itarle to open New York office, co-locate at CME
Swiss best execution and TCA provider set to open NY office and co-locate with CME
FXPBs over-allocating credit to algo and high-speed trading
Thinly capitalised trading firms are an accident waiting to happen while dealings on multiple venues make credit limits hard to set, claim market participants
Bitcoin futures volumes wake to new dawn on CME and other exchanges
Institutional players follow retail traders’ lead to hedge risk exposure
US-China trade war: market complacent in underpricing ‘no deal’
Options or swaps said to still be cheap to hedge if tensions persist
Crypto winter doesn’t spell end for blockchain investments
Despite the downfall of ICOs, investors are banking on blockchain transforming many industries