Dealer concentration in FX forwards

Counterparty Radar: data shows panel depth and top bank share correlated to size of manager’s book

Counterparty data

The number of counterparties a fund manager uses – and the amount of its business it hands to its top dealer – is directly related to the amount of FX forwards the manager trades.

The analysis is based on thousands of US mutual fund and exchange-traded fund filings to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which offer a snapshot of positioning for each quarter. FX Markets aggregated the data across parent managers to offer unique insights on the FX forwards market. The data also forms the

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As electronification spreads into new areas of FX trading, banks are under pressure to digitise more of their offerings to remain competitive. The race is now on to automate pricing, trading and hedging in areas such as non-deliverable forwards, swaps…

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