CME Group
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
Former Nex exec Wren rejoins Spencer at IPGL
Move follows CME cutting several senior staff at electronic trading arm
Traiana boosts risk controls for FXPBs
Providers can be more specific about the risks they are willing to take
CME prepares to cut several Nex executives
Senior managers including Tim Cartledge and Jim Iorio said to be exiting
FX Link pulls futures-shy banks into the fray, says CME
Since its 2018 launch, CME says the product has attracted some Tier 2 banks to FX futures
Conlan joins Currency Mountain
Joe Conlan moved to the FX holding company in January
Pott becomes head of public policy and government affairs at BNY Mellon
Ben Pott joins the firm from Nex Group