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The technological arms race continues...

One of the key takeaways from the FX Week USA congress last Tuesday is that the unrelenting spend on technology seen over the past few years is unlikely to end. A quick poll of delegates found that two-thirds will spend more on technology in fiscal year…

Overcoming the post-trade dilemma

Heiko Sundermann is head of FXMM client technology at UBS, and is programme manager of a front-to-back business process re-engineering initiative for FX-cash products that aims to increase operations capacity

CFTC moves to close 'London loophole'

LONDON - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has moved to impose US position limits and hedge exemption requirements on US customers trading West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil on London-based ICE Futures Europe.

Icap breaks into retail forex market

LONDON - Icap is breaking into the lucrative retail foreign exchange market by teaming up with London-based retail equity and FX trading sister company City Index, senior officials tell FX Week .

ABN upbeat on US dollar

FRANKFURT - ABN Amro has launched two capital-protected notes in Germany designed to provide exposure to the appreciation of the US dollar against the euro. The notes are targeted at investors anticipating a move towards a sustainable US base interest…

Lloyds TSB expands in derivatives

LONDON - Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets is continuing to expand its global derivatives business, with two key hires for its foreign exchange derivatives trading team.

Death by association

The application of credit technology to diverse underlyings led to the birth of collateralised foreign exchange obligations in 2006. But despite being built from uncorrelated underlyings, their fortunes have proven highly correlated with the wider market…

New roadmap standardises messaging

GLOBAL - A group of financial market messaging organisations released details of an investment roadmap designed to standardise messaging use across the industry earlier this month.

TD in Asia hub shake-up

SINGAPORE, SYDNEY & TORONTO - Toronto Dominion Securities has relocated its Asia foreign exchange and rates trading hub from Sydney to Singapore, in a move to boost its coverage of the emerging markets.

Quick rolls out new Icap data

TOKYO - Japanese financial information vendor Quick, the country's dominant domestic provider, is adding a suite of new currency datasets and services from interdealer broker Icap to its products.

Hotspot FXi launches data service

JERSEY CITY, NJ & LONDON - Hotspot FXi is the latest platform to take advantage of the demand for foreign exchange market data from model-based and algorithmic trading shops, selling market data from its historical archive.

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