Foreign exchange
Latest turnover figures tell positive story for FX, say committee members
Steady volume rises in US and UK indicative of healthy state of foreign exchange markets
Lower interest rates to 'significantly impact' emerging markets currency debt performance
Amid a surge in demand for exposure to emerging markets currency debt from private investors, HSBC Private Bank prefers building structured products around Asian assets to emerging Europe
Hong Kong retail investors look to ELIs for their yield needs
Retail investors in Hong Kong are favouring equity-linked investments on the back of more stringent regulatory requirements for structured products. At the same time, the appetite for foreign exchange-linked products – most of which escape the new rules …
OCC: equity derivatives to get a cross-margin service
OCC: equity derivatives to get a cross-margin service
Corporate backlash on costs of regulation continues
Banks will not be able to avoid passing on the hefty costs of regulatory reform to their buy-side clients, argued participants at the ACI UK’s annual square mile debate
Basel guidance on settlement risk delayed until June
Updated guidance on foreign exchange settlement risk from the Basel Committee and CPSS was originally expected by the end of 2011, but now has an expanded remit
Identifiers will place significant technology demands on industry, say dealers
Progress to create a new set of industry standard codes to identify institutions, products and transactions is moving forward as regulatory reporting deadlines loom, but it remains one of the biggest market structure challenges of 2012 for foreign…
Atlas One looks beyond Latin America
Looking beyond LatAm
Asian institutionals take aggressive stance on volatility
Tackling the tail
Currency derivatives house of the year: Barclays Capital
Risk awards 2012
Markets braced for tough 2012 in FX
Market participants share their expectations for a challenging year ahead in the foreign exchange industry
Corporates fear move to platform trading for forex options
Despite being exempt from clearing and exchange trading requirements in the US and Europe, some corporate treasurers fear they might have little choice but to execute forex options on electronic platforms
CLS pushing 'transformation' agenda, says Bozian
The central settlement utility is feeding greater resources into expanding its universe of currencies, according to chief executive Alan Bozian
Bank of England sets out code of practice on electronic trading
Members of the FX Joint Standing Committee comment on the recently reviewed Nips code, which includes a new section on electronic trading
StanChart’s global head of Ficc departs
Remy Klammers has left Standard Chartered and is understood to be starting his own business
O'Sullivan quits SG CIB
Co-head of forex trading has left the French bank after relocating to New York earlier this year
Greek reversion to drachma easier than euro conversion, say analysts
If Greece were to leave the eurozone it would have to establish a new currency in record time; analysts explain how the process would be simpler today due to technological advances
Financial institutions move to address funding squeeze in Asia
Funding dilemmas
Despite hurdles, clearers map out forex ambitions
Clearing a way for forex
Political crisis in Europe brings volatility back to forex options
Volatility returned to eurodollar last week, as forex traders priced further downside risk into euro options
Foreign exchange house of the year
Foreign exchange house of the year