Pre-trade
Iosco delays pre-hedging consultation to November
Review into controversial practice splits industry
Algos on parade: how top FX algo providers stack up
New FX Markets algo database shows differences across internalisation, analytics and client data handling
Games of tag need to end
Growing focus on platform disclosures should spur more transparency
Behind the mask: FX market raises fears over tagging ‘abuse’
Front running and tag refreshing concerns abound on semi-anonymous trading platforms
Investors trade the drama out of the crisis
How LGIM, AXA, Manulife and other buy-siders tackled the toughest markets since 2008
Best Bank Awards: JP Morgan
JP Morgan holds on to title of Best bank overall for FX at the 2019 FX Week Best Bank Awards
Deutsche offers trade info to China FX clients via WeChat
The bank looks to extend this feature to other asset classes in the future
UBS: last look is sticking around, but conversation evolving
Bank says transparent and open discussion can produce “mutual benefits going both ways”
Stable relationships still vital in FX, say asset managers
Accessing liquidity when needed is more important than price, according to buy side
JP Morgan rolls out algo workflow tool on Bloomberg App Portal
The integration should make the bank’s Algo Central software and FX trading services more accessible
Schmidpeter to head business development at Curex Group
He is promoted to senior managing director and head of global business development
As Brexit looms, Mifid transparency faces the chop
EU law and equivalent UK draft threaten to split and undermine trade disclosure rules
Exegy promotes Anderson, hires Faulkner
The firm promotes Robert Anderson and adds John Faulkner to London sales team
Quick to distribute Fenics’ Kace products in Japan
The agreement enables Quick to offer an integrated solution to clients
BSO and Hoptroff partner for time-stamping solution
The time-as-a-service solution provides accuracy within a 10 microsecond divergence from UTC
MarketFactory launches pre-trade limit tool
Reflector monitors and balances the limits and positions across all trading venues
Mifid transparency has failed so far, say traders
Poor-quality, inaccessible data and the lack of instruments covered undermine use case
SmartTrade opens Milan office as client base grows
The company has onboarded new clients in several places, including Germany, Italy, Japan, North America, South Africa and Switzerland
Market participants start testing Mifid II systems
But they do not feel fully ready for the sweeping changes taking effect on January 3
Cürex launches pre-trade time-stamping
The new capability will allow Cürex’s customers to prove their compliance with Mifid II
SmartTrade launches big data analytics solution
The new solution, called smartAnalytics, will allow clients to generate graphical reports on pre-trade, execution and post-trade performance via a TCA tool