API
Dealers bullish on Bloomberg chat interface for FX markets
Service expanded its API offering to integrate broker chats into banks’ engines for cash FX pricing late last year
Bloomberg offers auto-RFQ chat feed – but banks want a bigger prize
Traders hope for unfettered access to IB chat so they can build their own AI-enhanced trading tools
Bilateral streaming relationships set to grow, say LPs
FX Markets Europe: More clients are embracing APIs to access bank liquidity directly
LSEG shelves replatforming project for FX Matching venues
After EBS migration, dealers had little appetite for another major technology project
Dealer relief at delays to Refinitiv Matching’s tech migration
First phase of replatforming for Swiss spot pairs set to be pushed to mid-2025
Keys to the kingdom: FX dealers open doors to passive trades
Banks provide entry to internal exchanges and principal trading desks
FXSpotStream looks to growth products beyond spot
New chief exec Jeff Ward highlights NDFs and FX swaps as next boom area for the venue
Electronic FX swaps execution advances on 360t
Sun platform could help banks auto-hedge and develop algo execution for the instruments
Tradeweb treads fine line as API trend brings challenges
Buy-side rates traders look to dodge platform’s interface but remain barred from cross-venue price-shopping
‘Holes’ in new UK regulatory net worry trading venues
Regulated venues say rival firms might unfairly escape oversight in activities such as blocking trades and price aggregation
From ‘cottage industry’ to quant-ready: prop data at JP Morgan
Unique information now “table stakes” for brokers as they compete for new clients
Applying scenario analysis to climate risk
Matthew Lightwood, director, risk solutions at Conning, discusses the application of stochastic modelling with scenario analysis to quantify climate risk in a portfolio
Institutional ETF trading – ETF traders navigate changing conditions
After years of growth and development, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have cemented their place as a mainstay in investment portfolios and trading strategies. During a year of exceptional volatility and uncertainty, traders were able to take full advantage…
Stress‑testing under Covid‑19
Stress‑testing is a challenging exercise to regularly assess a bank’s level of risk or capital adequacy. Olivier Brucker, Sunayana Mehra and Ed Young of Moody’s Analytics explore an approach that can address this, proposing an alternative methodology…