Liquidity
Asset managers hope for common FX tape
Monitoring and ensuring liquidity providers adhere to their own disclosure is difficult, but must be done
Morgan Stanley invests $15 million in Integral
Cash injection enables Integral to pursue platform expansion across broader set of currency participants
Best Banks Awards: Barclays
Barclays has been voted the winner of the Best Bank for GBP/USD, Best Bank for EUR/GBP and Best Bank for FX in London categories at the 2018 FX Week Best Banks Awards
Best Banks Awards: Banco Santander
Banco Santander has retained its crown for the Best Bank for Latin American Currencies at the 2018 FX Week Best Banks Awards
Day one of a no-deal Brexit: swaps and chaperones
Banks, platforms and repositories tee up EU entities – and dread the repapering crunch that would follow
OTCXN launches crypto-trading venue for institutional clients
Clients have already begun executing trades in ether and bitcoin versus dollars
Virtu Financial to acquire ITG for $1bn
Cash deal comes little over a month since reports of potential merger
Jump: inside the secretive e-trading giant
Execs at the Chicago prop firm wish the whole world was a Clob, but as bilateral volumes rise, they've decided to go with the flow
Flow Traders commits to FX Global Code
Dutch market-maker recently announced plans to open London office
Shell picks Bloomberg for Treasury system
Solution available for any corporates around the world, Bloomberg says
XTX Markets goes for Paris as European hub
Liquidity provider applies to French regulator for authorisation
Advanced Markets launches London operation
Nina Baksh will lead the London office for the FCA-regulated firm
Fix participation shifted after scandal, says FCA
Lengthening the benchmark window in 2015 made manipulation less likely, but the fix price is harder to obtain
Hurdles remain for euro as international reserve currency
Dollar’s incumbency, institutional deficiencies and rise of renminbi hamper progress of single currency
Jurors begin deciding fate of FX Cartel
UK nationals face 10 years in prison if convicted of alleged price-rigging
Flow Traders to open London office
Amsterdam-based liquidity provider says new premises are part of Emea expansion strategy
Judge denies FX Cartel mistrial request
Judge Berman reserves making decision on defence’s motion for acquittal due to lack of evidence
US attorney: all avenues exhausted for Scott’s extradition
UK Supreme Court denies appeal on behalf of US to consider overturning decision to let Stuart Scott stay in country
‘You can’t game the fix,’ jurors hear in FX Cartel trial
Melvin says if the three traders wanted to game the fix, they couldn’t have chosen a worse time because the market is too liquid then
HC Tech recruits Puma and Powers
Richard Puma joins as COO and Eric Powers as head of infrastructure
Gurcuoglu joins Stater Global Markets
Ayhan Gurcuoglu was previously regional manager for Turkey at Sucden Financial
Marex Spectron re-enters FX with new platform
After a four-year hiatus, the broker rolls out offering geared at smaller players that large banks find relatively unattractive
360T expands algo suite for corporates
The platform offers 60 strategies from 13 banks, with four more dealers to come online before the year-end
Central banks adapt to faster markets, says BIS report
Fast pace of today’s markets means central banks must change approach to fulfil responsibilities