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FX Week comes to Asia

HONG KONG – This week sees the inaugural FX Week Asia conference in the Special Administrative Region at the Renaissance Harbour View Hotel.

IFX Group gets a boost from forex

LONDON – IFX Group, the City-based financial trading and spread betting company, expects to make in excess of £1.7 million in its interim results, after strong profit growth in its global FX trading operations.

Tietmeyer warns of global imbalances

LONDON – The increasing level of global imbalances is leading to greater risks for the global economy, according to Hans Tietmeyer, former president of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Forex hits the wild east

ALMATY – The rapid expansion of the emerging market economies is forcing the development of local currency derivatives markets.

Dollar strength to continue

Investor Bank & Trust continues its ascent up the three-month rankings as its commitment to a bullish dollar view pays off.

Barclays offers Chinese research

HONG KONG – Barclays Capital is launching its FX weekly research in traditional and simplified Chinese for the Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland Chinese investor base.

Yuan for the money

With the growing importance of the Chinese market, James Malcolm, senior currency strategist at Deutsche Bank in Singapore, suggests range-trading USD/CNY NDFs from the short side, to capture gains

Logiscope speeds up messaging

LONDON – Logiscope, a provider of market data and post-transaction messaging to the financial community, launched the TradeSTP Vendor Partnership Program last month. The new initiative is set to expand and speed up the certification of Logiscope's deal…

Interactive to switch FX feed

BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS – Data vendor Interactive Data is to switch off an old forex data feed from its ComStock division and replace it with a new one from another part of ComStock, GTIS.

Record Q3 for US banks

NEW YORK – US investment banks have posted record-breaking third quarter results, largely arising from a profitable quarter in foreign exchange.

BarCap predicts dollar fightback

Barclays Capital has moved up the ranks in the one-month forecast by accurately predicting US dollar weakness in August would be short-lived.

China heading for free market

SHANGHAI and Beijing – China took two further steps towards currency liberalisation last week, with a widening of the yuan trading band and the introduction of forwards trading for corporates.

All this and more

In the final multibank platform focus, FX Week looks at the prospects of FXall in its bid to continue the growth it saw in its first four years

StanChart becomes EBS Prime bank

LONDON – Standard Chartered has joined EBS Prime as a prime bank, in a move the platform hopes will boost its penetration in emerging markets.

Eurex US takes fight to CME

CHICAGO – Eurex US, the American subsidiary of Germany's Eurex, launched its bid to take on the CME in the FX futures market on Friday, as it started trading with 20 market-makers.

Central banks increase FX holdings

BEIJING AND WASHINGTON DC – A Chinese official last week highlighted the possibility of a significant move out of US dollar reserves, as the latest IMF figures show central banks have continued to hold faith in the greenback.

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