Europe
Citi poaches FX options trading duo from Barclays
US bank adds to its London and Singapore FXO trading desks
More disclosure touted to temper pre-hedging ills
Transparency could help investors choose a dealer, but will they use the disclosures?
US corporates tap euros for cheap debt and FX hedging
Interest rate differentials and cross-currency basis drive highest reverse Yankee issuance since Covid
Iosco delays pre-hedging consultation to November
Review into controversial practice splits industry
HSBC loses FX forwards market share with EU funds
Counterparty Radar: UK bank reported 6% drop in notional volumes with Ucits funds in H2 last year
New fee plans for FXGO rile dealers
Bloomberg plans to charge spot FX market-makers from next year
e-FX awards 2024: The winners
JP Morgan takes home a record five wins, while BNP, DB and NatWest have two each
As risk of US Basel delay grows, Europe is in a bind over CVA
European Commission may postpone FRTB, but it’s hard to separate surgically from rest of framework
Isda pushes to ‘decouple’ Simm calibration from model changes
Emir 3.0 prompts effort to separate risk-weight revisions from methodology updates
Europe’s FXPBs take advantage of margin rule carve-out
Some large FX options users have switched to dealers capitalising on regulatory mismatch
Hedge funds’ pricing often trumps other buy-siders – SNB
Research shows “advantageous” prices result in outperformance of 139bp trading USD/CHF
BestX founder Jerome joins Deutsche Bank
Oliver Jerome joins the German bank as head of European FX product
Natixis turns on the taps in flow trading
French bank boosts flow business, balancing structured solutions capabilities
Vanguard begins clearing NDFs on LCH
Addition of mutual fund giant gives big boost to client-cleared activity on ForexClear
European funds face upsurge in settlement risk after T+1
Trade body Efama finds up to 40% of daily FX flows may have to settle outside protection of CLS
SocGen hires Estrada as global head of FX
John Estrada previously held the same role at Credit Suisse prior to his departure last year
As T+1 looms, non-US firms consider out-of-hours trading
Pruned settlement cycle forces foreign buy-siders to explore automating the FX leg of securities trades
Trend following struggles to return to vogue
Macro outlook for trend appears to be favourable, but 2023’s performance flop gives would-be investors pause for thought
Dealers inch closer to clearing of FX forwards
LCH’s ForexClear aims to ease capital charges and margin constraints on banks, but will it kick-start clearing?
Kings and kingmakers in the Ucits FX forwards market
Counterparty Radar: First look into European retail fund data reveals HSBC and Vanguard as top dealer and manager
Bloating CCP default funds. New margin models. Are the two linked?
Dealers grumble that greater guaranty fund payments could undermine the ‘defaulter pays’ principle of clearing