I’ve just achieved – or endured? – the milestone of 10 years on an institutional FX trading desk. Either way, it feels like the right moment for a little reflection. Let’s start with an assumption: this morning I tapped in with my contactless card for the Elizabeth line, sipped canned matcha, scrolled TikTok and started […]
Like many dealers, NatWest has for years had a tool that automatically trades in the underlying spot or forwards markets to replicate and hedge its foreign exchange options sensitivities. Recently, though, the bank has given clients access to this tool – not to hedge their options but to replicate them in spot for those such
The increasing shift of foreign exchange spot market volumes into liquidity providers’ internalisation engines has made real-time visibility into the true magnitude of volumes traded in the market more and more difficult. During intense periods of high volatility, such as April’s tariff turmoil, liquidity providers noted that the flows they internally match within their client franchises
e-FX awards 2025 – the winners – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Barclays, DB and State Street take two wins each, while Citadel, Citi, JPM and BNP also take top slots FX Markets is proud to announce the winners of the e-FX Awards for 2025. The roll of honour
European corporates have been shortening the tenor of their foreign exchange forwards hedges so they can react more quickly to market conditions should spot and hedging costs improve, according to dealers. Banks say corporates that typically might have hedged at the five-year tenor are now looking at monthly rolling strategies, for example. “Our volumes pick
XTX alleges Currenex entered own trades ahead of users – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Market-maker claims venue used triangular arb tool to trade before users XTX Markets has demanded Currenex disclose details of a tool it claims allowed the venue to execute its own triangular arbitrage trades ahead
Spot crypto should begin trading on at least one of the designated contract markets regulated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) by year-end, according to acting chair Caroline Pham. “It’s a crypto sprint,” she said. “I’m very serious about that, so we are moving quickly.” Pham, speaking to the annual meeting of the
Foreign exchange sales desks may have taken solace in the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) recent report showing a surge in FX turnover this year. With average daily volumes exceeding $9 trillion a day, this new representation of the status quo marks a milestone for the market. The desks may be less enthusiastic further down
Researchers from the Swiss National Bank have shown how a trading strategy that uses fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) to analyse sentiment in the foreign exchange market could outperform traditional language-based artificial intelligence methods. The authors of the SNB working paper, Daniele Ballinari and Jessica Maly, suggest that by fine-tuning LLMs to better understand the jargon
It’s a known but unproven assumption that predatory trading during the 4pm London time fixing window for benchmark currency rates – mostly from high-speed hedge funds and prop desks – can lead to worse prices for clients. What’s less clear is what to do about it. A new paper, jointly authored by Deutsche Bank’s Roel Oomen
CME boosts FX access via new vendor partnerships – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Tie-ups with Trading Technologies and Integral to bring new liquidity into EBS and Spot+ venues CME Group is establishing ties with key vendors to expand the distribution of primary market foreign exchange liquidity from EBS
In the first half of 2025, the combination of US tariff announcements and fiscal and monetary policy uncertainty led to volatility in foreign exchange markets not seen since early 2020. During this period, FX central limit order books (Clobs) proved vital to traders for managing their risk, providing market transparency, deep liquidity and execution reliability,
Crackdown on FX vendors could raise costs for dealers – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content MTF designation could cost aggregators and EMSs $3m to set up and $1m in annual maintenance Vendors that must register as multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) may end up passing increased regulatory costs on to
For years, bitcoin was seen as a speculative outlier: volatile, loosely regulated, and detached from the macroeconomic fundamentals that drive traditional asset classes. Today, we’re seeing something different. Bitcoin is not just part of the global investment conversation, it also responds to it in real time. New research from LMAX Group, based on millisecond-level data
CEO David Mercer on what the Genius Act means for markets, and where the venue’s FX business goes next Source link
The turmoil from US president Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariff announcements rattled global foreign exchange, interest rate and equities markets, where it triggered significant volatility and negatively impacted liquidity conditions. Understanding how execution strategies behave under such conditions is critical for market participants to navigate future turbulent periods. In BestX’s latest study, “Empirical statistics of
BNP Paribas is planning to selectively expand its white-labelling programme to give more regional banks and their clients access to its spot foreign exchange execution algorithms. Earlier this month, BNP Paribas struck its first algo white label partnership with Lloyds, whereby corporate and financial institution clients of the UK bank can now use its three
