September 2021



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In this issue

What Financial Institutions can learn from the meteoric rise of Coinbase

By Saurabh Anand, Senior Analyst, Pranati Dave, Practice Director and Ronak Doshi, Partner at Everest Group

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Disaster Recovery strategies for brokerages and other trading firms

By Evgeny Sorokin SVP of Software Engineering at Devexperts “If you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail,” so goes the famous quote by Benjamin Franklin that was later paraphrased by Winston Churchill. Far from just being a call to general preparedness, it’s also an appeal to protect the progress you’ve already made. To keep […]

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PLUGIT Looking to form longstanding and mutually beneficial partnerships with clients

A technology provider that looks to form longstanding and mutually beneficial partnerships with its clients. PLUGIT is a leading financial software provider which has been building an international presence. We spoke to Yulia Tereshchenko the firm’s Operations Manager to learn more about the business and its future plans. Yulia, PLUGIT was founded in 2012 and […]

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Building an FX powerhouse
With John Colasanti, Managing Director
FX & Rates Algos at BGC Partners

Headquartered in London and New York, BGC Partners, Inc., through its various subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “BGC”), offers a wide variety of trade execution, broker-dealer, clearing and other back-office services.

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Cboe FX: Bringing differentiation, innovation and choice to FX participants

Cboe FX continues to set the standard in FX with a proven history of technology innovation, reliable liquidity provision and its uniquely client-centric approach. e-Forex spoke to James Arrante, Director, FX Product Management and Ben Leit, Global Head of FX Sales at Cboe Global Markets about the continuing drive to ensure clients have access to […]

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What can the payments industry do about FX settlement risk?

How SWIFT gpi allows FX players to monitor and manage settlement transactions At the end of 2020 we commissioned an e-Forex magazine supplement on FX settlement risk. Our objective was to bring together some of the leading industry experts to dissect the problem, examine what solutions exist today and see what could be done in […]

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Electronic FX in Latin America: Tremendous growth on the horizon

Nicholas Pratt examines the growth of FX e-trading across Latin America and the various factors driving its adoption.

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FX HedgePool
Bringing innovation to the FX Swaps Market

FX HedgePool is an award-winning matching engine for the mid-market execution of FX swaps. The firm’s platform has transformed the foreign exchange market with the breakthrough unbundling of liquidity from credit – unlocking vast potential for passive hedgers to provide liquidity to their peers, while banks optimize their balance sheets. We asked Jay Moore, CEO […]

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The potential for Distributed Ledger Technology to reduce FX Settlement Risk

In 2019, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Triennial Survey estimated almost $9 trillion-worth of FX payments remain at risk of settlement failure on an average trading day and reported PvP protected settlements had dropped to approx 40% of the market1.

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A review of the changes
to the FX Global Code

As FX markets evolve, the guidelines governing it have to keep pace to ensure fair and transparent markets…

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