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Why cloud based e-FX platforms offer an increasingly compelling proposition
Reduced costs, flexible design, high reliability and ultra low latency: Why cloud based e-FX platforms offer an increasingly compelling proposition
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The evolution of clearing and FX market structure
Following on from our roundtable feature earlier this year, which focussed on some of the complexities and current models of FX clearing, we asked Kah Yang Chong, Head of ForexClear Product, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, at LCH to give us his views on how the clearing landscape is likely to evolve further.
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How pension funds and PvP preview the evolution of operational resiliency after Covid-19
While the full effect of Coronavirus (Covid-19) remains to be seen, its impact is already unprecedented, creating challenges for companies across sectors on a global scale. For financial services, the pandemic is highlighting the importance of operational resilience, a priority that will continue to be a focal point well beyond the lifecycle of the pandemic.
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NDF Trading: Taking it to the next level
Over the better part of the past 15 years, most of the innovation in the foreign exchange (FX) market has been dedicated to spot transactions, which benefitted from electronification, automation, and algorithmic trading.
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Moving towards a more resilient FX market
After the first 45 days of the pandemic, it’s clear that the capital markets met volatility and turbulence with resilience. As we take stock of this new environment, the conversation will shift to how we recover and adapt. Therein lies the opportunity for FX market participants re-evaluate their operational models.
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Gold outlook: Corporate earnings and fiscal and monetary policy in focus
Gold price has risen by almost 2% in the past month while the dollar index has risen by more than 4%. This price action was mostly due to global central banks and policymakers. The two have moved swiftly to support the economy.
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Aggregation & spreads: The race to zero
In this increasingly competitive market, we continue to see spread compression in FX and precious metals. This has been an exponential trend since the rise of electronic trading (namely e-FX), as access to the $6 trillion daily FX industry has become far more appealing with the evolution of technology and the relative ease of market entry.
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FX Markets in the age of COVID-19
FX, as an asset class, has long exhibited certain key and defining features in the context of the global financial markets. Firstly, there is the intrinsic link between FX and the real economy – and the role that FX plays not only in facilitating global trade and commerce, but also payments.
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The Harmonisation of Electronic Trading, Treasury and Regulatory Compliance
We asked Gill Bacon, Business Development Director, Banking to tell us why now, more than ever, integrating trading, treasury and sales operations can help navigate the ever-complex world of e-trading and regulatory compliance.
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Have we underestimated the growth potential of anonymous ECNs?
With Paul Arnold, EMEA Head of Sales, Euronext FX and Vincent Sangiovanni, CEO 360TGTX
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Does e-FX still require a human touch?
Client demands for speed and efficiency, coupled with regulatory pressure for transparency, will continue to drive the growth of electronic trading, including trading of more complex products.
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e-Forex talks to Neill Penney, Managing Director, Co-Head of Trading at Refinitiv
Refinitiv’s trading business provides solutions across the entire trading workflow including pre-trade insight, execution capabilities, and transactional workflow solutions for the sales, trading, and research of FX, rates, credit, equities and other exchanged-traded instruments globally, constituting nearly all the major buy-side and sell-side financial firms around the world.
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Liquidity crisis: Does the expert analysis from Sibos still hold-up?
“The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) survey states that turnover is a rough proxy for liquidity and, if it is, liquidity is at an all-time high,” said Gavin Wells, moderator of the FX Day at Sibos on 23 September 2019. “Yet if you talk to market participants, they would tell you that the capital implications have led to a reduction in credit, which has reduced market access, which means they have less liquidity. So how can both conditions exist?”
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Peer-to-Peer Matching in FX: Why the pieces are finally coming together
For as long as there’s been foreign exchange trading, buy side institutions generate the demand for FX liquidity, while market makers provide the supply. A symbiotic relationship that has stood the test of time, but with increased pressures for best execution and enhanced transparency, especially in uncertain times like now with the resurgence of volatility, the demand for peer-to-peer liquidity has never been greater.
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Trends in FX Trading: Addressing the technology challenge of electronified FX markets
In 2020, global capital markets consultancy GreySpark Partners observes that overall FX market structural dynamics significantly impact trading franchise business models and drive decision-making across the different segments of market participants in different ways.
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FX under the Corona lockdown - E platforms and algos come into their own
Richard Willsher investigates how electronic FX markets are performing as the global corona crisis deepens
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