Liquidity
Bria joins LiquidityEdge as COO
Andy Bria joins LiquidityEdge, founded by ex-Icap chief David Rutter and headed by Nichola Hunter
Johnson appeal supported by two amicus briefs
Criminalising legitimate pre-hedging when the dealer acts as principal will lead to rising costs and decreased liquidity
FXall launches analytics tool
FXall launches the Trade Performance Analytics tool, which will be rolled out on other Thomson Reuters platforms in future
Edgewater launches Latam FX venue
LatamFX.Pro will aid price discovery in the Mexican, Chilean, Colombian and Argentine peso, the Brazilian real and Peruvian sol
Hold times collapse on EBS Direct as LPs cut last look
Hold times down 67% and reject rates drop to 3.15%, as FX Global Code of Conduct forces liquidity providers to step away from last look
NatWest bids for order-book management business
The UK dealer's frosted glassbox serves as segregated order execution desk for fixings and stop losses
Singapore aims to become e-FX hub for Asia, says Loh
Speaking at FX Week Asia, MAS’s Jacqueline Loh says Singapore wants more price discovery to take place
Thomson Reuters adds JPY/THB to Matching
Trading the yen and baht directly will increase market liquidity and transparency
Elgarf joins ADS Securities in London
He moves to the firm from retail broker IG
CLS onboards Japanese funds
Japan-domiciled funds gain access to settlement through CLS as third-party participants for first time
SGX’s Lam in bid to bring together two worlds
SGX set to launch FlexC FX Futures in August, with the aim of combining the best that OTC and futures have to offer
Awards: Cboe FX
Cboe FX has been voted Best FX ECN at the 2018 FX Week e-FX Awards
Awards: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered has been voted Best FX Prime Broker Bank at the 2018 FX Week e-FX Awards
Awards: CME Group
CME Group has been voted the winner of two categories at the 2018 FX Week e-FX Awards
Awards: XTX Markets
XTX Markets has been voted Best FX Liquidity Provider and Best Non-bank Market Maker at the 2018 FX Week e-FX Awards
Gill joins IS Prime in institutional sales
Terry Gill joins the prime-of-prime firm in a newly created role
BNY Mellon launches FX options trading
The move fills a strategic gap in the bank’s big push into foreign exchange
HC Tech: it’s time to speak up
Recent industry survey shows HC Tech is biggest liquidity provider in US by market share
Buy side spends big on OMS/EMS, says Greenwich Associates
Nearly a quarter of buy-side firms’ technology budgets go on accessing these tools, survey finds
Northern Trust partners Lumint for FX solutions
The partnership supports further innovations in hedging programme management and analytics
Phil Weisberg joins oneZero’s advisory board
The firm hopes to use his institutional market insight as it seeks new opportunities
Flow Traders goes live to make FX splash
With 700-plus approved counterparties and significant in-house flows from its ETP business, Flow Traders prepares to realise its FX ambitions
360T and FXall enter price-distribution deal
Banks using 360T’s price engine will be able to price FXall customers, as well as clients on the Deutsche Börse-owned venue
INTL FCStone rolls out e-platform for frontier units
Platform to streamline price discovery of exotic currencies through more electronic process