Market Data
Citigroup launches flow-weighted currency indexes
LONDON & NEW YORK – Citigroup has launched 10 indexes that measure currencies' value using customer flow data.
A towering rate of return
Sara Sullivan, head of currency solutions at ANZ Investment Bank in London, presents a way of enhancing returns on deposits by taking a view on exchange rates
Deutsche Bank FX desk signs up to Iokio data navigation service
LONDON – Deutsche Bank's FX sales desk has signed up to a new data navigation service from Iokio.
FX next big thing for algorithmic trading
LONDON – FX is set to be the most actively traded asset class using algorithms, according to an audience at an event on the subject held last week.
EBS hits the pause button
LONDON – EBS has stopped new customers going live on its platforms until early December as it faces a surge in demand for its services.
EBS hits the pause button
LONDON – EBS has stopped new customers going live on its platforms until early December as it faces a surge in demand for its services.
The benefits of petro-dollar diversification
The latest data suggests that Opec members have not been recycling oil revenues into US assets. This implies that diversification is likely to start soon, putting the dollar under significant pressure, however the timing is still uncertain, says Ian…
Reuters revenues up third successive quarter
LONDON – Global news and information provider Reuters has reported third-quarter revenues of £611 million, up 8% on the £566 million for the same period last year.
Reuters opens post-trade service
LONDON – Reuters this week moves into the post-trade market with the launch of Reuters Trade Notification System (RTNS).
Bloomberg enters FX options market
NEW YORK – Bloomberg is continuing to build up its portfolio of FX tools with the planned introduction of FX options trading.
Yuan for the money
With the growing importance of the Chinese market, James Malcolm, senior currency strategist at Deutsche Bank in Singapore, suggests range-trading USD/CNY NDFs from the short side, to capture gains
Logiscope speeds up messaging
LONDON – Logiscope, a provider of market data and post-transaction messaging to the financial community, launched the TradeSTP Vendor Partnership Program last month. The new initiative is set to expand and speed up the certification of Logiscope's deal…
Interactive to switch FX feed
BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS – Data vendor Interactive Data is to switch off an old forex data feed from its ComStock division and replace it with a new one from another part of ComStock, GTIS.
Dow Jones adds to forex coverage
HONG KONG – Dow Jones Newswires has launched a website to complement its 'CommentaryPlus' real-time commentary and analysis service.
All this and more
In the final multibank platform focus, FX Week looks at the prospects of FXall in its bid to continue the growth it saw in its first four years
GFI and Traiana offer processing boost for forex options trading
NEW YORK and LONDON – FX options trading is to get a boost, with broker GFI and technology vendor Traiana both launching automated processing services in the market.
GFI and Traiana offer processing boost for forex options trading
NEW YORK and LONDON – FX options trading is to get a boost, with broker GFI and technology vendor Traiana both launching automated processing services in the market.
CST merger leads to derivatives domination
LONDON – The £132 million Collins Stewart Tullett (CST) acquisition of Prebon Yamane last October has propelled the combined group to domination of the broker categories for interest rate and currency derivatives in sister pulication Risk 's 2005 inter…
Platforms adopt algorithmic trading
NEW YORK – Algorithmic trading continues to gather momentum, with trading platforms EBS and Hotspot FXi linking to software provider Progress Software Corporation's Apama Algorithmic trading software.
Platforms adopt algorithmic trading
NEW YORK – Algorithmic trading continues to gather momentum, with trading platforms EBS and Hotspot FXi linking to software provider Progress Software Corporation's Apama Algorithmic trading software.
Dollar boosts FX derivatives
BASLE – The rally in the US dollar has worked to the benefit of exchanges offering trading in currency derivatives.
Keeping up to speed
Nigel Renton tells FX Week how the eSpeed FX platform competes in an already full market
Don't fall behind, use the REER
The real effective exchange rate holds the key to how the government can manage damaging rupee fluctuation, according to Kotak Mahindra Bank's Treasury Solutions team in India