Foreign Exchange
Delivering on FX
Banks in the Asia-Pacific region are ramping up their proprietary electronic foreign exchange platforms in an attempt to capture a bigger slice of Asia’s burgeoning forex business. How is the shake-up in the market progressing?
FSC: Taiwan banks have innovative edge over bigger mainland rivals
The Taiwanese banking sector’s competence in foreign exchange, derivatives, wealth management and consumer finance will enable the island’s banks to compete with their much larger mainland...
Sponsored statement: Finding safe harbour
As regional banks cautiously develop currency markets and sovereign risk threatens global market stability, Société Générale explains why going back to basics is a sound strategy
The increasing FX
FX-linked products are on the rise as yield hungry investors look to one of the few underlyings that has been feasible to structure into short term capital protected notes in recent times while hedging...
HSBC trades kickstart currency options market in Bangladesh
HSBC has carried out what it says are the first option trades on the Bangladeshi taka. The bank acted on behalf of local garment exporter Viyellatex and Coats Bangladesh, the local unit of a UK-based...
CIBC announces three forex hires in London
CIBC announced the hires of Chris Eagle, Peter Snasdell and Helen Thomas to the foreign exchange business last Friday (February 12), in an internal memo.Eagle and Snasdell join as executive directors...
MCX sees more than $1bn daily trading in new futures currency pairs
Aggregate daily volumes for futures in three new currency pairs – euro/rupee, sterling/rupee and yen/rupee – traded on the MCX Stock Exchange in Mumbai have exceeded an aggregate $1 billion...
Foreign exchange
One flourishing area of business for foreign exchange dealers is the corporate market. Hit by major shifts in exchange rates and high volatility last year, a number of companies are looking to review...
Hunt for yield boosts sales of Latin American forex notes
Banks are experiencing a surge of interest in foreign exchange-linked structured notes tracking Latin American currencies, as falling volatility encourages investors to intensify their search for yield...
Banks pull out of PRDC market
Losses and increasing hedging costs have led many smaller firms to leave the power-reverse dual currency (PRDC) business, say dealers, leaving a rump of major banks operating in the market. One high...
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