Spot market
Markets search for FX factor as rates fall flat
Traders signal shift to currency strategies, but is it passing fad or permanent fixture?
EC looks to GFXC on potential regulation of spot FX
GFXC to meet this week about revising global FX code, which may influence European legislator stance
PBs seek remedy for credit addiction in FX
Group set up after big Citi loss considers limit-checking hub, among other options
Inside March madness with Citi’s Tuchman
Interview: Trading rooms went virtual, central banks stepped up – but some platforms flopped
Spot FX shies away from regulatory yoke
As Europe weighs Aussie-style rules for spot trading, some see benefits – but many fear the burden
FX traders pull back to vanilla strategies for emerging markets
Spreads tighten on many currency pairs but liquidity still patchy
How Goldman’s algos adapted to virus vol
Interview: Ralf Donner explains why algo usage is up while markets are down
Fee fight: dealers take aim at brokerage costs
Old tensions have new edge as banks urge clients to bypass platforms
For FX dealers, virus brings volumes
Mixed feelings for sell-side traders as Covid-19 spurs wave of speculation and hedging
All aboard for LNG freight derivatives?
Tools to manage LNG freight risk were developed last year, but how is the market responding?
Who killed FX volatility?
Beyond central bank policy, traders see a range of hidden structural factors at work
Smarter trading in a fragmented world
FX Week recently hosted a webinar in partnership with Refinitiv to ask foreign exchange industry leaders to discuss geopolitical challenges, market changes and developments, and evolving technologies, and how they have shaped forex markets in Asia
Currencies flow market-maker of the year: Credit Suisse
Risk Awards 2020: Swiss bank shows block trading can still compete in the age of the algo
Forex ‘last look’: how non-banks stack up
Research shows patchy disclosures, plus differences from banks on pre-hedging and rejected orders
Q&A: CFTC’s Quintenz talks bitcoin, Nasdaq breach, algo trading
On cryptocurrencies, commissioner worries about spot market, but has confidence in big futures exchanges
The swap market model with local stochastic volatility
An easy to calibrate and accurate swap market model is proposed
The Nordic/Baltic spot electric power system price: univariate nonlinear impulse-response analysis
This paper studies the characteristics of the conditional mean and volatility of daily price movements of the system price for the Nordic/Baltic one-day-ahead spot electric power market.
From BAML to UBS: how 15 banks stack up on ‘last look’
Disclosures show striking differences on pre-hedging, hold times and trade acceptance
Goldman discloses ‘speed bumps’ for forex clients
Past behaviour may subject clients to a 200-millisecond hold period, as US bank tries to avoid losses
Applied risk management series: gas storage valuation strategies
A look at the valuation of gas storage facilities and show how a deeper analysis of the value formation can offer insights for P&L optimisation and risk management
The Nordic futures market for power: finally mature and efficient?
The authors of this paper study the forecasting performance of Nordic power futures in order to see whether the futures bias reported in a number of previous studies still prevails and, if so, whether this means that the market is inefficient.
Epex Spot CEO pushes to unite Europe's power markets
Exchange mergers will "simplify the picture" for power traders, says Conil-Lacoste
Exchange of the year: APX
Power exchange copes well with evolving market and changes in client demand
RMB controls stifling iron ore swap market participation in China
Inability to convert RMB is preventing more participation from Chinese end-users in the iron ore swaps market, according to an onshore metals derivatives player