Recent US dollar strengthening in response to the escalating conflict in Iran has done little to temper many investors’ long-term bearish views on the greenback, with some buying into trades anticipating a rally in higher-yielding currencies. The US dollar index (DXY), a measure of the dollar’s value against a basket of currencies, hit 99.683 on […]
Morgan Stanley has cut four London-based foreign exchange salespeople and traders, who were covering real money clients, according to two sources with knowledge of the departures. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the bank has cut 2,500 jobs in total – around 3% of the workforce – shortly after reporting record profits of
Buy-siders often have lofty ambitions about how far they might automate trading workflow. For the most part, firms have concentrated on doing what’s easy – automating smaller, simpler trades that can be executed by straightforward algorithms. In foreign exchange, AllianceBernstein has seen room to go further. Within the past year, the firm’s multi-asset trading team
Citi was the top US dealer for foreign exchange trading revenues in 2025 on the back of increased client hedging demand, according to regulatory filings. The bank generated revenues of $7.9 billion for the year, up 50% from $5.3 billion in 2024, helped by a bumper second quarter from Donald Trump’s Liberation Day tariff announcements.
The Iran conflict has forced investors to liquidate profitable emerging market foreign exchange options positions, as a broad risk-off move triggered stop-outs and value-at-risk breaches across multiple currency pairs. “Any positions that people have held for the last few months – positions where they’ve actually made money – those are the ones getting cut very
Central bankers in Asia have intervened or are closely monitoring market developments stemming from the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East. The US and Israel on February 28 launched a co-ordinated attack on Iran. Soon afterwards, Iran retaliated by launching drones and missiles targeting Israel and US military bases in several Gulf countries, including
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 – 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
Gap risk fears push FX traders into Sunday-night Asia hours – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Volumes surge at Singapore open as Trump’s weekend announcements force early risk management The increased frequency of Trump-led market-moving news at weekends has seen venues report a sharp rise in volumes during the
Renminbi options volumes plummet as vol grinds lower – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content USD/CNH volumes fell 84% in 2025 as PBoC currency management took hold The Chinese renminbi was only a few years ago considered among the most actively traded currencies in foreign exchange options. But volumes have
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
Wild dollar swing upended FX options hedges – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Banks chased vol higher as last week’s EUR/USD surge knocked out barrier trades The selloff in the US dollar last week against the yen and euro forced many foreign exchange options dealers to hurriedly buy back
Will lifer exodus kill Taiwan’s NDF market? – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Traders split over whether insurers’ retreat from FX hedging is help or hindrance The Taiwan dollar non-deliverable forward (NDF) market is the second largest in the world. But dig beneath the surface and the market has
LatAm FX carry trade shrugs off geopolitical fears – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Clients in regional carry positions remain undeterred by US interventions, say dealers Increased geopolitical instability in Latin America in recent weeks has failed to dissuade investors from putting on foreign exchange carry trades linked to
US mutual funds slash short euro positions at record pace – FX Markets Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Counterparty Radar: Pimco cut $4.6bn of EUR/USD puts in Q3 amid changing stance on dollar direction US mutual fund and exchange-traded fund managers cut $7 billion of euro/US dollar FX options positions during
Nomura has hired Mark McMillan as its global head of electronic foreign exchange, based in London. In the newly created role, McMillan will oversee the bank’s electronic FX business, encompassing trading, sales, quant and strats, according to an internal memo seen by FX Markets. Chris Torrington, global head of eFX trading and Ben Robson, global
Demand for protection against a selloff in key Latin American (LatAm) currencies has been rising steadily since December, as investors look to protect their carry trades from geopolitical impacts and dealers try to pare back tail risks. Foreign exchange options notional volumes in Brazilian real and Mexican peso reached $8.2 billion and $3.5 billion, respectively,
