FX Week Europe: Fix reform must address risk-reward imbalance

Joseph Wald speaks at FX Week Europe 2013

Substantial changes might be needed to the way foreign exchange benchmark exchange rates are used and calculated to better compensate market-makers for the risk they take when providing fix-based execution, according to a group of senior executives at trading platforms and technology providers.

Speaking at the FX Week Europe conference in London yesterday, panellists echoed the comments of a senior official at the European Central Bank, who suggested widening the time window in which FX

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