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BarCap joins LiquidityHub

NEW YORK – Barclays Capital (BarCap) has joined the LiquidityHub bank consortium, which plans to aggregate liquidity and market data for electronic trading, for their clients.

Icap should get the options ball rolling

The FX Week Europe Congress was the biggest and best yet. The brightest star among many was Michael Spencer, chief executive of Icap, who explained his plans to expand his business into electronic FX options.

EBS and Reuters pool resources for BoE

LONDON – Rival brokers EBS and Reuters are pooling resources to launch a new benchmark page for spot FX price fixings, to replace data currently provided by the Bank of England (BoE).

Sovereign Bank live on Sierra platform

PHILADELPHIA – Sovereign Bank is using an FNX Solutions web-based Sierra platform for the its FX operations, the treasury and capital markets technology provider announced last week.

EBS/FXMarketSpace rivalry heats up

LONDON – The standoff between newcomer FXMarketSpace and incumbent platform EBS revved up last week, with EBS claiming the former will favour Chicago-based users.

Flextrade beta-tests MilanFX system

NEW YORK – Trading technology vendor Flextrade has started beta-testing its block FX trading platform MilanFX, it told FX Week . The vendor becomes the first to roll out a block trading venue for foreign exchange and employ a dark pool of liquidity.

Vwd expands Tullett package

FRANKFURT – German data vendor vwd has expanded its Data Manager Treasury end-of-day FX and money markets data package with extra information from Tullett Prebon Information, the data arm of broker Collins Stewart Tullett.

Bank of America adds to ETS

Bank of America is enhancing its suite of e-trading capabilities to include live options execution, improved pricing and risk management among other new features.

Old news set to leave China behind

China’s plans to delay the information flow from foreign news agencies by filtering it through Xinhua news agency is worrying, and it is likely to be counterproductive.

A capital adventure

Michael Spencer tells FX Week about how he turned Icap from a four-man business into a £3 billion FTSE 100-listed powerhouse in 20 years, and about his plans for EBS

New Xinhua rules intercept foreign news

BEIJING – Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese government-controlled information service, has issued new rules designed to stop foreign competitors from working directly with their customers in China.

Reuters’ system failure disrupts FX trading

ASIA – Reuters suffered a temporary systems failure in its currency matching system Reuters Dealing 3000 Matching Host, causing disruption to trading in Asian hours last Friday. The outage acted as a firm reminder of the competitive landscape for…

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