E-trading takes hold for FX swaps – sort of
Bulk of trades are being executed over screen, but bolder changes have stalled
Electronic trading for foreign exchange swaps and forwards is booming. It has also hit a brick wall – several of them, in fact.
The boom is in screen-based trading, with banks variously telling Risk.net that between 60% and 95% of their flows now happen this way. But this is entry level e-trading. Transactions are predominantly arranged via request-for-quote (RFQ) – replicating the steps involved
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