Electronic trading
Bank FX price feeds fall short
LONDON - Banks must improve their foreign exchange pricing and trading infrastructure or risk losing order flow, according to currency traders.
Nexaweb melds FX pricing, trading on new platform
Burlington, MA-based Nexaweb Technologies, a provider of web-based business applications, has released a trading and price-discovery platform for foreign exchange markets, with pre-configured data connectivity, aimed at banks seeking to deploy a web…
Dealer withdrawal sparks record volumes on traditional forex systems
LONDON - Citi, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Natixis were among dealers that pulled liquidity from external platforms on May 6, sparking a record trading day on traditional liquidity hubs, EBS Spot and Thomson Reuters.
FXall adds trade analytics
NEW YORK – Investment Technology Group (ITG) launched a transaction cost analysis service in co-operation with trading platform FXall, last week.
Fixnetix Launches FX Trading and Data Services
LONDON - UK-based low-latency data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix has launched packaged services for firms trading foreign exchange, targeted both at pure FX traders and market makers, as well as high-frequency trading firms trading FX as part of…
High-frequency trading will be 40% of market by 2012
BOSTON - High-frequency traders could win from the introduction of central clearing in over-the-counter markets, according to research by Boston-based consultancy Aite Group released last week (April 26).
Progress releases single-bank portal FX adapter
NEW YORK - Complex event processing (CEP) platform vendor Progress Apama has introduced a suite of single-bank portal adapters for its Apama Capital Markets Framework, which are available today (May 3).
Euro crisis sparks record e-trading
LONDON & CHICAGO - Heightened concerns over the contagion risks of the Greek fiscal crisis to periphery economies last week led to record trading days on electronic trading systems.
TXC live with Tokyo co-location facility
TOKYO – Trading Cross Connect (TXC) went live with its Tokyo co-location facility on April 15, using a network and data centre solution from Tokyo-headquartered KVH.
CME posts record euro FX volumes
CME posted a record trading day for euro FX products with a total $98.2 billion traded yesterday, as S&P downgraded Greek debt to junk status.
Clients drive cross-asset trading
LONDON - Increased demand for cross-asset trading by hedge funds and asset managers will force the merger of foreign exchange and derivatives businesses, according to panellists at the FX Week webinar, FX technology arms race: the battle for market share…
Banks widen scope of IT budgets
Speakers at the FX Week webinar, FX technology arms race: the battle for market share, last Tuesday (April 20) covered a wide range of issues facing the industry post-crisis, including regulation, customers' increased demands and post-trade processing.
OCL provides STP feed handler to Gain GTX
LONDON - Option Computers today (April 26) announced the release of a straight-through processing (STP) feed handler for electronic communications network Gain GTX.
FXall to release pre- and post-trade data analytics
NEW YORK - Foreign exchange electronic communications network (ECN) operator FXall plans to introduce a set of pre- and post-trade analytics based on the trading trends officials observe within the firm’s trading platforms.
CME speeds up product identification
CHICAGO – CME Group will release version 2.0 of its Fix/Fast market data messaging format in June, which aims to make it easier for user firms’ data and trading systems to identify updates for specific traded products among messages distributed by the…
Data availability lags behind market growth
TORONTO - Limitations on the availability of market data is one of the biggest challenges to growing buy-side volumes, said speakers at the FX Invest North America congress in Toronto last Tuesday (April 13).
DGCX adds three currency futures
DUBAI - The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) will launch three additional currency futures contracts in June, to take advantage of the growth momentum in incumbent products.
RBS to go live on CLS/Traiana JV
Royal Bank of Scotland is set to become the fourth bank to go live on the CLS/Traiana joint-venture trade aggregation service by early May, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Nomura to launch multi-asset trading
Nomura plans to add trading in interest rates swaps, credit and cash bonds onto its upgraded proprietary trading platform this year, as it introduces multi-asset trading capabilities, officials tell FX Week.
DealHub releases FX liquidity aggregation GUI
LONDON - Two banks are evaluating a foreign exchange liquidity aggregation graphical user interface (GUI) developed by OCL Computers, being marketed broadly by the vendor today, officials have told FX Week.
White-labelling: Why re-invent the wheel?
Christian Bock, managing partner of Consulting for Banking and Brokerage Solutions (CBBS) in Zurich, looks at the benefits of using a white-labelled platform and the issues to consider when choosing one
29West upgrades Gateway
CHICAGO – Messaging technology provider 29West, which was recently acquired by California-based integration software vendor Informatica, is planning to release a new version of its Gateway message-routing product to early adopters this quarter, which…
