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Deutsche Bank takes on custodians with automated FX service

Deutsche Bank takes on custodians with automated FX service

Deutsche Bank takes on custodians with automated FX service – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content The service aims to deliver a 90% saving for asset managers on their operational FX execution Deutsche Bank is mounting a direct challenge to the custody banks that dominate operational foreign exchange execution for […]

Electronification hopes rise for FX swaps market

Electronification hopes rise for FX swaps market

When it comes to the electronification of foreign exchange swaps market, you’d forgive traders for having a fair amount of scepticism about the various venue initiatives springing up. Many have been down this road before. Dealers recognise a problem and work with new trading venue to address it, but sell-side firms are slow to connect,

Canada joins central banks’ multi-currency blockchain project

Canada joins central banks’ multi-currency blockchain project

Tokenisation can help combat inefficiencies in wholesale cross-border payments, the participants of Project Agorá said in a new report, as the Bank of Canada joined the project.  The Bank for International Settlements together with seven major central banks launched the initiative in 2024. According to the report of the landmark project, published on May 27,

LSEG’s FXall to launch credit-intermediated FX forwards service

LSEG’s FXall to launch credit-intermediated FX forwards service

The London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) foreign exchange trading venue, FXall, is preparing to launch a service that separates credit risk from market-making in FX forwards trades with buy-side clients. FX Markets understands the service – Split Risk – will allow buy-side users to enter outright forwards by trading a combination of spot and an FX

DB eyes regional bank algo boost from smartTrade tie-up

DB eyes regional bank algo boost from smartTrade tie-up

Deutsche Bank expects to more than double the client base for dbHedge, its foreign exchange spot algorithmic hedging suite for regional and tier-two banks, after plugging the offering into smartTrade Technologies’ LiquidityFX aggregator.  The tie-up will give regional banks – which typically lack the quant teams, low-latency infrastructure and venue connectivity to run sophisticated currency

Crypto for normies: EDX puts old twist on new asset class

Crypto for normies: EDX puts old twist on new asset class

When a quartet of big markets firms were looking at bitcoin in 2022, they saw a lot to like: record highs, regular volatility, claimed diversification benefits, and massive growth potential.  It came with a lot of weird baggage, though. The cryptocurrency market’s practice of settling trades instantly meant it was difficult to trade on credit

Russell’s flexi hedging aims to tame jumpy yen

Russell’s flexi hedging aims to tame jumpy yen

Asset managers are often not the most responsive to adjusting foreign exchange hedges when volatility and market positioning can flip on a dime. Sometimes, being partially unhedged for a portfolio of foreign assets can be as beneficial as being almost fully hedged. Fund managers with static, fixed hedging policies, may only have the chance to

CME outage sparks FX soul search

CME outage sparks FX soul search

CME outage sparks FX soul search – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content How November’s halt exposed fragile wiring of new futures-led market structure Foreign exchange futures account for roughly 2% of total spot and outright forwards volume. Yet when CME Group’s futures exchange and the EBS spot venue went

CME outage exposed FX market’s futures dependency, says SNB

CME outage exposed FX market’s futures dependency, says SNB

CME outage exposed FX market’s futures dependency, says SNB – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Study finds EUR/USD spreads widened eightfold as non-bank PTFs blew out by nearly 30 times in November halt The November 28 failure of a Chicago data centre that knocked out CME Group’s foreign exchange

JP Morgan gives corporates an FX blockchain boost

JP Morgan gives corporates an FX blockchain boost

Helping move client money instantly and reliably across borders is a keen focus of JP Morgan’s digital investment efforts. It’s not alone in this, of course. But now, through the work of its Kinexys team – coupled with last year’s launch of its on-chain coin – the group is seeing its technology put to work

Market-makers seek answers about CME’s cloud move

Market-makers seek answers about CME’s cloud move

More than four years after CME announced plans to migrate its technology systems to Google Cloud, market-makers say they are still not getting the information they need to prepare for the move. The biggest question for some is whether the new matching engine will process trades deterministically, in the order they were submitted. “There’s a

FX options API trading takes off at quant hedge funds

FX options API trading takes off at quant hedge funds

FX options API trading takes off at quant hedge funds – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Systematic players behind surge in direct execution, say dealers In the fast-paced world of spot foreign exchange trading, dealers send a constant stream of prices to some of the most active market participants

FXSpotStream expands into US Treasuries trading

FXSpotStream expands into US Treasuries trading

Dealer-backed FXSpotStream is set to move into the US Treasury market by launching a new fixed income trading platform supporting direct, streaming-based liquidity between dealers and hedge funds. The service, called RatesStream, is aiming to go live by the middle of 2026 for on-the-run US Treasuries (UST) trading with up to six liquidity providers, and

Why FX liquidity is harder to read than ever

Why FX liquidity is harder to read than ever

Why FX liquidity is harder to read than ever – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content A breakdown of FX execution methods shows how liquidity is truly formed, writes Isomiq’s Jamie Rose The BIS Triennial Survey headline for April 2025 is something that has been widely publicised and talked about:

SpectrAxe steps into FX forwards and swaps

SpectrAxe steps into FX forwards and swaps

All-to-all foreign exchange options venue SpectrAxe is preparing to expand into FX forwards, swaps and non-deliverable forwards, according to recent filings with US regulators. SpectrAxe went live with the market’s first options central limit order book (Clob) in mid-2024, allowing hedge funds to trade anonymously with other hedge funds, regional banks and market-makers via their

How JPM AM swapped platforms for pipes

How JPM AM swapped platforms for pipes

Hey, buy-side trader – are you active in foreign exchange? Ever been irritated by the lack of control you have when trading via one of the big FX platforms? Occasionally wonder if there’s another way? JP Morgan Asset Management has been there, too, and found a way. The firm does all of its spot, options,

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