Hedge funds
15 minutes with: Stacy Williams, HSBC
Senior quant discusses the high levels of cross-asset correlation across today's markets
CME to launch e-micro gold contracts
CHICAGO - CME Group plans to launch e-micro gold futures on its electronic trading platform CME Globex on October 3, for a trade date of October 4, in response to growing demand for smaller contracts.
Investors inject $360m of new capital into Asian-focused hedge funds in Q2
Hedge funds in Asia were the recipients of large net asset fund inflows during the second quarter of 2010, reversing the trend witnessed in the first quarter
CitiFX Pro to launch in Singapore
SINGAPORE & LONDON - CitiFX Pro, Citi’s margin foreign exchange trading platform, will launch in Singapore soon, targeting small institutional clients, said Kevin Wilson, director of margin FX trading for Citi's institutional clients group in New York.
BlackTree live on dbSelect
LONDON - BlackTree Investments, a London-based currency manager founded by an ex-Lehman Brothers fixed-income team, has gone live on Deutsche Bank’s multi-manager managed account platform, dbSelect.
BNPP eyes European FXPB business
BNP Paribas moved steadily to launch into the foreign exchange prime brokerage market with the acquisition of staff and infrastructure from defunct insurance company AIG last year. But with that business focused on the US, rivals argue the French dealer…
In Brief, June 21, 2010
Read this week's In Brief to stock up on the latest technology news around the FX world.
April a pleasant month for ParkerFX
STAMFORD, CT – The Parker FX Index is reporting a 0.52% return for the month of April as managers benefited from the continued decline in European currencies.
Non-banks drive up Hotspot volumes
JERSEY CITY, NJ - HotspotFX reported a 107.9% rise in average daily volumes to $35.2 billion - double count - in April, versus $16.9 billion last year.
SEB targets Asia growth
SINGAPORE - SEB has relocated Seppo Leskinen, chief investment officer of the SEB Multi-Manager Currency Fund, to Singapore from London, to leverage demand for currency management by investors in the Asia Pacific region.
Prime brokers switch on to SAS 70 checks
Prime brokers have focused on bolstering asset security for clients after billions of dollars of client assets were caught up in the administration of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE).
Morgan Stanley: Prioritising FXPB
Competition in the foreign exchange prime brokerage market remains competitive, as new businesses fill the vacuum left by the withdrawal of incumbent providers and clients spread counterparty risk following the 2008 credit crisis.
Barclays Capital realigns FX prime brokerage
UK bank outlines ambitions for growth
Parker FX bounces back in February
Currency managers end losing streak
Buy side resigned to higher pricing
Buy-side traders have emerged as post-crisis neo-realists, with a sense of resignation, and some scarring, in the tone of speakers at the FX Invest Europe congress in Zurich last Tuesday (March 9).
Parker FX continues losing streak in Janaury
Currency managers suffer as traditional relationships break down
Crisis sparks rise in active hedging
Forex is now flashing prominently on fund managers' radars, said participants at FX Week Invest 2010
Parker FX down in December
Currency managers caught out by US dollar reversal in December
BNP Paribas stakes out CTAs
BNP targeting high-frequency accounts
Icap opens up prime model
Broker responds to demand for prime brokerage
FX Connect top professional electronic trading venue
FX Connect has claimed top spot in the best professional electronic trading venue category, after trailing behind FXall in second place in the multibank foreign exchange portal category last year.