Articles by FX Markets Staff
StanChart continues US build-up
NEW YORK - Standard Chartered has hired Peter Hirsch as head of rates trading, Americas, and Brian Varga as head of US Treasury trading, Americas, in New York.
Powell departs BoA Merrill Lynch
LONDON - David Powell, a G-10 currency strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, left the bank in London last week (November 10), market sources have told FX Week .
CMC builds with StreamBase
LONDON - CMC Markets has deployed a complex event processing (CEP) system from StreamBase to price foreign exchange, and plans to extend the use of the system to indexes, commodities, treasuries and equities trading by year-end.
Velocity Trade readies API connectivity
TORONTO - Canadian foreign exchange dealer Velocity Trade expects to take its first client live sometime this week, say officials, with an application programming interface (API) connection into the dealer's middle- and back-office systems.
Sales head quits RBS
LONDON - Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) continued to be hit by senior-level departures last week, with the global head of foreign exchange bank sales the latest to walk out the door.
Sticking to fundamentals
Callum Henderson, global head of foreign exchange research at Standard Chartered in Singapore, warns of a violent US dollar upside correction in the first half of 2010
State St case puts FX deals under scrutiny
LONDON & NEW YORK - Banks will come under increased pressure to provide greater transparency on foreign exchange transactions, following the California state attorney-general's FX fraud lawsuit against State Street, according to market participants.
Budenberg appointed UKFI CEO
LONDON - Former UBS banker Robin Budenberg has been appointed chief executive of UK Financial Investments, the body established to manage the UK government's investments in financial institutions including the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Lloyds TSB and…
Diode decoupling
While there is increasing optimism about the global economy's rebound, the growth story is fractured. Asia - especially China but also South Korea, among others - is seeing strong growth while Western economies lag, says Paul Mortimer-Lee, strategist at…
Bo Li returns to BoA Merrill Lynch
HONG KONG - Bank of America (BoA) Merrill Lynch has appointed Bo Li from Standard Chartered in Hong Kong, to head north Asia institutional foreign exchange sales, according to market sources.
Concerns raised over CCPs
NEW YORK - Various attendees raised concerns about central clearing at Risk USA in New York - with JP Morgan's chief risk officer even pointing to it as a possible source of the next financial crisis.
RBI builds currency futures
MUMBAI - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to extend the list of currency futures traded on the country's exchanges, as part of efforts to grow the risk management tools available in the local market.
JP Morgan names EMEA head
LONDON - JP Morgan has named a new head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in London, market sources tell FX Week .
Industry reaffirms CLS as FX data repository
NEW YORK - The foreign exchange industry has reaffirmed industry utility CLS Bank as the FX trade data repository, as US and European authorities push to introduce similar facilities in the derivatives market.
The central clearing backlash continues
As the foreign exchange industry continues to get its house in order to prevent any undue regulatory scrutiny, cracks persist in the arguments extolling the virtues of central clearing facilities.
Ipam banned for audit failures
WASHINGTON, DC - The US National Futures Association (NFA) banned Orlando-based introducing broker Income Plus Asset Management (Ipam) from NFA membership on October 28, after it failed to comply with a regulatory audit.
Bank of East Asia signs on to GFI's Fenics Enterprise
SINGAPORE - Bank of East Asia (BEA) has deployed GFI's Fenics Enterprise for the pricing and analysis of retail dual currency products.
Celent report: financial firms' IT spending on the rise
MONTREAL - Despite the economic decline, absolute spending figures in information technology are set to rebound globally, according to Jacob Jegher, author of the Celent report: IT spending in financial services: A global perspective .
StanChart open all hours for GCC currencies
DUBAI - Standard Chartered has extended its online coverage of Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) currencies to 24 hours daily from Monday to Friday, to match client demand.
SunGard upgrades Front Arena
LONDON - SunGard is this week (March 12) launching a new version of its FX and money markets supporting cross-asset trading system, Front Arena.