It takes a market-wide crisis to know how stable the underlying pipework is that supports it. In the $7.5 trillion foreign exchange market, the measure of its stability is liquidity. This was put to the test last month, as intraday volatility triggered by president Donald Trump’s tariff announcements on April 2 resulted in an explosion […]
Goldman Sachs was the top US dealer for foreign exchange trading revenues in 2024, which more than doubled at the firm thanks to increased trading activity at the end of the year, according to regulatory filings. The investment bank generated revenues of $6.3 billion for the year, up 125% from $2.8 billion in 2023, thanks
TD Securities and Goldman Sachs made the largest ranking moves among dealers serving the FX forwards market for European retail funds during the first half of last year. The Canadian bank gained $14.4 billion in notional from trades with Ucits funds, increasing its market share to 9.5% from 7% and becoming the second-largest dealer in
Franklin Templeton has become the largest user of foreign exchange options among US mutual funds, taking the top spot from Morgan Stanley Investment Management for the first time since the end of 2020. The California-based fund manager increased notional volumes by around $340 million during the third quarter of 2024, taking the total size of
