Buy side enjoys two consecutive quarters of narrowing spreads

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The cost of trading currencies has declined for two consecutive quarters for buy-side firms, as banks narrow their bid/ask spreads in the most liquid currency pairs to attract flows in an increasingly competitive market.

Buy-side market participants say the pace of spread compression has picked up noticably in the past six to nine months, as FX trading has become a high-volume low-margin business for banks and liquidity providers, who are trying to compete on both multi-bank and single-dealer

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