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Dealers advancing electronic FX swaps trading on CME
Deutsche Bank is among a handful of dealers using CME’s FX Link platform to help automate market-making
XTX lawyers urge court to deny Currenex’s dismissal motion
Plaintiffs accuse platform of trying to split case across jurisdictions, which could lead to inconsistent decisions
FX HedgePool to push into spot market by year end
Buy-side P2P swaps matching engine to launch new service for WM/R benchmark
e-FX Awards 2022: The winners
BNP, Deutsche and UBS win two categories each; Citadel retains spot crown; B2C2 is top crypto LP
GFXC launches tool to spur buy-side adoption of FX code
Standard-setter aims to overcome “lukewarm” buy-side response with web-based prototype tool
Systematic hedge funds eye outsourcing to bank algos
Cost pressures push new stream of clients to pass FX algo trading to banks
European banks can’t escape SA-CCR hit, warns FX exec
Although not yet directly affected, EU dealers may feel regulation’s impact, says Goldman’s Wilkins
One by one, dealers embrace standardised FX reject codes
Investment Association’s proposed codes finally begin to take hold after Covid setbacks
MSIM cuts third of FX options volume amid market contraction
Counterparty Radar: Manager pares $13bn of USD/RMB trades, deals blow to BNP’s market share
LSEG Singapore NDF platform to gain from EBS London shift
New matching engine could clean up in Asia as rival facility exits Tokyo
Lazard and Pimco profit from shorting Hong Kong dollar
Repeat interventions from HKMA fail to revive a currency under pressure from rising US rates
State Street flies high in FX forwards as Goldman, Citi dive
Counterparty Radar: Goldman loses half of market share, drops out of dealer top 10
Bank of Israel increases FX interventions to tame shekel
Central bank’s foreign reserves reach new record level
Barclays scraps additional hold time on last look
With more disclosures expected this month, list of LPs ditching controversial add-on continues to grow
Crypto derivatives should be banks’ ‘gateway drug’ to spot
Improved spot market liquidity means cash-settled derivatives shouldn’t be the end goal, says co-founder
Refinitiv uses rebates and speed to drive Matching liquidity
LSEG arm takes carrot-and-stick approach to market-making on primary venue
Late EU clearing house recognition spooks dealers
Bank capital requirements on exposures to affected foreign CCPs could jump after June 28 deadline
Power-reverse to the future: falling yen revs up PRDCs again
Pressure on Japanese unit sparks revival in power-reverse dual currency notes
Hedge funds pile into renminbi FX options
Investors target call spreads and RKOs in what traders say is one of 2022’s most profitable trades
SA-CCR could spur move to FX futures
Impact of new capital rules on swaps pricing could see shift to the exchange-traded product, say panellists
Credit Suisse and Commerz latest banks to ditch hold times
Mizuho also confirms zero last look add-on but MUFG’s policy unclear on the controversial FX practice
Ruble turmoil prompts calls to fix NDF contracts
Some market participants want to see offshore fixings as an option in all standard documentation
Locals give cautious welcome to exotics’ passage to India
Corporates still wary about structured derivatives five months after lifting of trading ban
Eurex to debut NDF clearing after mothballing physical FX
Bourse hoping to scoop up EU clients trading on 360T, eyes September non-cleared margining deadline