Foreign exchange

Banks strike landmark deal in Vietnam

HONG KONG – HSBC and Standard Chartered last week entered into the first interbank Vietnamese dong interest rate swap, marking a landmark deal for the local currency derivatives market.

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EBS acquisition drives Icap results

LONDON – Interdealer broker Icap’s profits for the year ending March 31 rose 11%, largely on the back of last year’s acquisition of electronic broker EBS.

BNP hires in structuring

LONDON – BNP Paribas has created four fixed-income structurer roles in London as part of a drive to build this area of the bank's business.

Caplin Systems unveils web trading tool

LONDON – Market data systems vendor Caplin Systems is today (May 21) launching Caplin Trader, an out-of-the box web trading application that enables banks to build multi-product trading portals in FX and fixed income, officials at the company told FX…

Automation hot for Russia

MOSCOW – Automation was the central theme at the third annual international foreign exchange seminar in Moscow last Tuesday (May 15).

China widens trading band

BEIJING – China widened the USD/CNY trading band to 0.5% from 0.3% effective today (May 21), signalling a more aggressive move towards CNY appreciation, said analysts.

Citi embarks on major shake-up

NEW YORK, LONDON & SINGAPORE – Citi has completed the next phase of senior management changes in FX under the new fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) structure introduced in 2006.

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