e-Forex Magazine January 2009
Overcoming market turbulence - e-FX helps weather the financial storms Development, access and deployment - lessons from the first wave of algorithmic FX execution Forex broker selection - key importance of technology
Thomson Reuters upgrades RTFX
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UniCredit selects Caplin Trader for e-FX trading
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Bloomberg Tradebook launches new e-FX platform
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Cognotec launches RealStream Margin 3.0
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Eurobase e-FX project with WestLB
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IBFX adds nine new cross currency pairs
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Bloomberg releases FX Dashboard
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ISO certified M I G Investments applies for Banking License
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Fortex and Advance Markets team up
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Tethys Technology launches FX trading functionality
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TraderTools launches AI-1â„¢ compact keyboard
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GTL Trading Opening New Facility in Dubai
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Trayport offers e-trading of cross-currency basis swaps
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Smart Trade takes lead in QuickFIX/J initiative
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FXCM and DailyFX offer new FX trading signals
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StatPro signs licence with GFI
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Aegisoft releases Athena FX 4.2
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Deltastock offers Level 2 Forex module
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I-TRADERS delivers new toolset
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eSignal 10.2 offers Forex window
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SunGard adds FX and MM functionality to Front Arena
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ICAP Tick Data from Thomson Reuters
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FX – holding up in the global liquidity crisis
Foreword
The global financial system has been in a crisis for almost 18 months now. The EUROFI, the European think tank (advising the ECOFIN Council) dedicated to accelerating the integration and efficiency of financial services in Europe recently identified some key causes behind the crisis: long period of excess liquidity, low interest rates for too long, excessive appetite for poorly measured risks, misuse of securitization....show more
Overcoming market turbulence: e-FX helps weather the financial storm
Leader
The current financial crisis has eventually impacted the FX market, creating a stressed environment for FX market players, with an increased volatility, a high turnover and major concern about liquidity. However, the current crisis is a challenge as well as an opportunity for the FX markets. Whereas the hedge fund industry and their leveraging have come under the microscope, FX has proved to be more than just a stable asset class. Though high volatility has been the order of the day, more investors have started believing in parking their money in FX rather than in equity markets. ...show more
FX Counterparty Risk: Is the CCP model gaining traction?
Marketplace
In the midst of the world’s credit crunch the centrally cleared counterparty for FX, FXMarketSpace, closed its doors due to lack of liquidity. Frances Maguire asks why it failed to gain traction and the likelihood of another CCP coming to the fore....show more
Raising the licensing barriers in Retail FX
Regulatory Roundup
In the first of his regular series of articles for e-Forex on regulatory issues in FX, Felix Shipkevich General Counsel at CMS Forex looks at recent efforts to enforce regulations in Retail FX and what holds the key to successful regulation in the future....show more
FX and derivatives standards - one for all or all for one?
Features
There is no question that the financial industry is in a dramatic state of change. If we can be sure of one thing right now, it is that there will most certainly be a raft of regulations and reforms introduced which will require all of us to implement new processes and revisit the way we carry out our business. A large proportion of these changes will be centred on the electronic communication of trades. ...show more
Electronic FX – catering for the needs of Quantitatively driven FX trading firms
Features
The outlook for most financial markets in 2009 is almost universally bleak but inevitably there are certain trading strategies that seemed destined to succeed in this climate. One of the most obvious beneficiaries of the high market volatility will be those traders engaged in quantitative-driven strategies. Fuelled by high frequency, low latency algorithms, it is these traders that will be best able to react to unpredictable and high velocity market movements....show more
Next generation cross-asset trading systems – making standalone platforms obsolete?
Features
Cross asset trading systems have become the securities markets’ Holy Grail. Pontus Eriksson, Product Manager, SunGard Front Arena outlines what functionality these systems should include and how they can become the foundation of traders’ future plans....show more
Summer 2008 Will crisis see the dawn of a new FX Prime Brokerage industry?
Features
Heather McLean explores ways in which the current extraordinary turbulence in global financial markets will present challenges to the FX Prime Brokerage industry....show more
Development, access and deployment: Lessons from the first wave of Algorithmic FX execution
Algorithmic FX Trading
The FX market has seen a first wave of execution algorithms but what stage is the market at now? Nicholas Pratt looks at what buy-side firms are looking for from the next generation of FX algorithms and what lessons have been learned to date that may help in their development....show more
Multi-asset class trading: fuelling the development of FX Algorithms
Algorithmic FX Trading
Nicholas Pratt examines the growing importance of FX Algorithms to the multi-asset class trader and how important they are likely to become in multiple instrument trading strategies....show more
Tackling Network Latency issues in Algorithmic FX trading
Algorithmic FX Trading
Trading latency is a parameter that is important in any high frequency trading strategy and surprisingly can also an important factor in low frequency trading strategies as well. ...show more
ACM – helping clients get closer to currencies
e-Forex Interview
e-Forex talks to Nicholas Bang, the Managing Director of leading Swiss forex broker, Advanced Currency Markets SA (ACM). ...show more
Corporate e-FX: helping clients meet the demands of a challenging business environment
e-Forex Roundtable
With Frederic Jeanperrin Head of European Corporate FX & IR Derivative Sales at SG Corporate & Investment Banking, Lucette Marrou Manager E-business sales at SG Corporate & Investment Banking, Stamos Fokianos, Global Head – eChannels, Financial Markets, Standard Chartered Bank, Xavier Alexandre, Global Head of E-Commerce, FIC at UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking and Peter Hagenauer, Head of eCommerce Business Applications, Global Markets at ANZ Investment Bank....show more
Counterparty and Settlement - FX investors look to risk mitigation benefits of centrally cleared products
FOCUS
While the recent financial turmoil continues to reshape the financial markets, indications are that counterparty risk will come under the spotlight, along with the need for greater transparency. For these reasons, it is expected there will be trend away from over-the-counter (OTC) products towards standardised exchange-traded listed products that bring with them the benefits of central clearing to mitigate risk counterparty risk and greater automation that lowers operational risk....show more
Exchange connectivity: considering your choice of access
FOCUS
When it comes to exchange connectivity it really is a case of horses for courses as there are a myriad connectivity options available to traders, depending on their type of business and how much they are prepared to invest to lower latency. ...show more
Exchange Simulation Environments: assisting currency traders to validate their systems' performance
FOCUS
FX trading has traditionally been conducted over interbank and inter dealer networks. But in recent years, with the emergence of exchange based electronic trading technologies and the benefits of the centralized clearing and risk management, traditional derivatives exchanges (ex: CME, ISE, ICE Futures, USFE, and NASDAQ OMX PHLX) are becoming significant market places for exchange based FX derivatives. ...show more
The importance of technology in the Forex broker selection process
Retail Forex Client
The appeal of online forex trading might actually get a boost from the disarray in traditional asset classes like equities and real estate. Yet a decade after the popularization of Forex trading an age-old question remains: what forex broker is right for me?...show more
Retail FX Platforms: Helping clients through volatile markets
Debate
Shaken confidence in global markets and various banks in particular has led to a lack of liquidity - at times even in the major currencies. For example, there were times in late September when spreads widened considerably in the interbank market even for the largest currency pairs such as EURUSD, reflecting a low appetite for risk and general nervousness in the market....show more
Technical Indicators in Automated Trading
Traders Workshop
This article aims to describe how technical indicators can be used in the development of an Automated or Algorithmic trading system. ...show more
eSignal OnDemand - Filling a Gap in the FX Datafeed Market
Product Review
eSignal has launched a delayed "snapshot" intraday and end of day analysis package with realtime FX (to be added shortly). eSignal OnDemand harnesses the power and resource of the eSignal database for $34.95 per month, with delayed quotes and charting on hundreds of thousands of symbols including equities, futures and forex. For one "region" only the price falls to $24.95 per month. Streaming Realtime single contributor FX quotes will cost an extra $20 /mth, representing eSignal's lowest ever price point for this data....show more
With Paul Chappell, Chief Executive at C-View Limited
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Dukascopy – SWFX launches a web based TV Channel
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